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Job Description

Can you take our players on a journey? Do you want to create the world's best mobile games? We need UX and UI talent to help us level up. You'll drive our team forward to deliver unforgettable games that delight players across the world.

Your role within our Kingdom

Do you want to create memorable gaming experiences?

As a Senior UX Designer at King you will work in close collaboration with multiple teams to ensure the best player experience for millions of players.

You will:

  • Work closely with the team including game designers, UI designers, and developers to design experiences that meet both business and user needs.
  • Work closely with UX researchers to turn player insights into design solutions as well as to identify areas of improvement in the game.
  • Lead the team to design apparently simple, elegant, user- friendly and, when possible, innovative solutions to complex design problems.
  • Create wireframes, presentations, mockups, user flows, prototypes… whatever deliverables it takes to communicate design solutions and get team buy- in

Skills to create Thrills

  • A degree in a relevant subject and/or clear career progression towards UX design.
  • 5- 8 years of experience as a professional designer
  • A strong growth mindset with the ability to adapt quickly to change
  • Strong communication and excellent critical thinking skills.
  • Proficiency with design tools (Sketch, Axure, Proto.io, etc.)
  • Experience prototyping, testing, and iterating UX flows for mobile games OR mobile apps
  • Experience advocating for UX as a discipline at every stage of product development
  • Capacity to adapt to change and work in a flexible environment
  • Proactivity. Don’t wait for things to happen, look actively for opportunities to improve the game and our ways of working towards a UCD approach.
  • Excellent English communication skills
  • Deep knowledge of
    • Cognitive science and human behavior
    • Product strategy principles and practices
    • Design thinking

A portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skill is required.

Bonus Points

  • Deep knowledge about video games, especially mobile games.
  • Experience in UX design for games, particularly mobile and free- to- play.

What we value:

  • Open- minded. Explore different points of view and different possibilities without being hindered by your own biases and preconceptions.
  • Authentic. Be honest with yourself, your team, and your customers.
  • Transparent. Fearlessly share your work and your thoughts at any stage of development.
  • Meticulous. Find the details that matter most and lean into them.
  • Create momentum. Bring energy and make things happen. Fix problems, invent tools and processes. Push for better ideas.

Let's deliver the best

There's never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and can see a world of possibilities ahead. At King we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. A shared love for our craft and our players means that together we'll delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

Making the world playful

When it comes to interactive mobile entertainment, we're pretty proud to be number one. We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions everyday through games like Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way.

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Please apply in English and don’t forget to share your portfolio with us.