Ux Design Platform Lead

Summary

Join Escape Velocity as a UX Design Lead - Platform and contribute to the development of an unannounced project. You will lead the UX design vision for platform-level metagame features, collaborating with various teams to ensure a cohesive and high-quality user experience. Responsibilities include developing innovative UX solutions, presenting data-informed design decisions, benchmarking competing games, and creating prototypes. This role requires extensive experience in live service game UX design and team leadership. Escape Velocity offers excellent benefits and a fully remote work environment.

Requirements

• 8+ years working on live service games’ UX design
• Experience driving UX vision and leading teams
• Priority for our players when making design decisions considering their diversity, limitations to their cognitive and physical abilities, etc
• Data-informed designs
• Proficient in user experience design tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe XD, etc)
• Create clear and informative documentation
• Have a strong sense for when the game’s graphic design supports or undermines the usability needs of a feature
• Experienced with developing UX/UI on AAA games

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the vision for UX Design on platform-level metagame features such as monetization, social systems, and long-term engagement mechanisms (e.g., challenges and passes)
• Collaborate with Game Designers, Product Managers, Artists, Engineers, and UX Designers to ensure a cohesive, high-quality UX for these platform/metagame elements
• Drive innovative UX solutions that align with both core design and product requirements while enhancing the player experience
• Present data-informed design decisions and solutions to team members, backed by clear rationale
• Benchmark competing games and apply key insights to improve UI/UX design
• Create and iterate on prototypes for new features and user flows, refining them based on feedback
• Build game progression systems, user flows, and journey maps, communicating design rationale effectively

Preferred Qualifications

• Mobile game and Unreal Engine knowledge a plus
• Comfortable with prototyping in game engine using editor tools/scripts

Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Fully remote work