At Blitz, we're redefining competitive gaming with a revolutionary desktop app and websites that help gamers improve their play (check out blitz.gg). Our applications help gamers play better by providing in-game enhancements, real-time scouting of enemy teams, unique performance insights, up-to-date stats, and personal progress tracking.
Currently, our major products support the popular MOBA, League of Legends, and the celebrated FPS, Valorant, but we’re quickly expanding to support more popular esports titles for PC and mobile.
Overview
The Blitz team is seeking an experienced Lead Product Designer to help us build and scale the product design practice. Reporting to the Director of Design, you will work with key cross functional stake-holders across product, design, and engineering to design new features for Blitz and to manage or mentor other designers on the team.
Responsibilities
- Apply holistic product design processes and frameworks to create engaging experiences for our customers and contribute to successful metrics for business growth
- Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable product solutions
- Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of the Blitz for our FPS titles
- Lead the process at each phase of design: ideation, planning, execution, usability testing, validation and gathering insights from data
- Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for our supported platforms
- Work within and contribute to evolving our design system
- Create visually balanced and intuitive interfaces that show an excellent grasp of readability, hierarchy, platform, and player behavior patterns
- Collaborate with the design team, provide mentorship and take on opportunities for management responsibilities
- Proactively solicit feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality, while also taking on mentorship
- Present design work to key stakeholders to achieve buy-in and ensure alignment with a coherent and quality User Experience vision
- Work with developers directly to conduct design hand-off and ensure pixel perfection from mockups to production
- Work with Product Managers to plan designs cycles for features and MVP releases
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years experience in building and shipping applications or software at the level of whole features/products that encompass an end-to-end experience
- Interaction Design skills defining how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this innovation will scale.
- Experience using prototyping skills to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
- Strategy articulation and experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts
- Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies for software development
- Excellent attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in gaming or a passion for gaming and esports
- Experience shipping applications across desktop apps, web, and/or mobile platforms
- Able to showcase your end-to-end design process across multiple projects, that include interaction and visual design artifacts, multiple iterations, and high-fidelity prototypes
- Experience connecting your work with other cross-product initiatives within the company to drive collaboration
- Examples of leadership in non-product dimensions that have made a team stronger and positively impacted the work environment
Requirements
- Accessible in PST time zone and available for meetings
- Can be remote, as long as available during accessible hours
