Senior UX Designer - Game Engine Tools for Multiplayer & Live Service Games

The opportunity

We’re looking for a designer to join our team full time to help us create amazing user experiences on our platform. Your designs will be used by Unity developers all over the world – that’s more than 4.5 million creators!

As a Senior UX Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the core tools and features that drive innovation in game development for live service games. Your expertise will be essential in crafting intuitive, cutting-edge interfaces and user experiences that empower developers to bring their creative visions to life. We seek a Senior UX Designer with extensive experience in game development tools to help us design powerful, efficient, and user-friendly solutions for our developer community. Your work will directly impact the usability and success of tools that integrate and manage services for multiplayer live service games.

What we offer

• Innovative Environment: Work on cutting-edge technology that is shaping the future of multiplayer and live service games.

• Collaborative Culture: Join a team of passionate professionals who are committed to excellence and collaboration.

• Impactful Work: Your designs will directly influence how games are built and experienced by millions of players around the world.

• Growth Opportunities: Take on challenging projects and grow your career in a company that values continuous learning and development.

What you'll be doing

• User Research & Analysis: Conduct user research to understand the needs, pain points, and workflows of game developers working on multiplayer and live service games. Translate research findings into actionable insights and UX strategies.

• Tool Design: Design intuitive, efficient, and powerful tools that enable developers to create, manage, and optimize multiplayer and live service game experiences. Ensure that the tools support complex game development workflows while remaining accessible and easy to use.

• Prototyping & Testing: Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to communicate design concepts. Conduct usability testing and iterate on designs based on feedback from developers and stakeholders.

• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure that UX designs are aligned with product goals and technical constraints. Advocate for the needs of the end-users throughout the development process.

• Design Systems & Documentation: Contribute to the development and maintenance of design systems, guidelines, and documentation that ensure consistency and scalability across all tools and features.

What we're looking for

• Experience: Experience in UX design, with a strong focus on game development or artist tooling, experience in the multiplayer game development and live service game operations space is a plus.

• Expertise: Deep understanding of the game development process, especially in the context of multiplayer and live service games. Experience designing tools for game engines or similar complex software is highly desirable.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar. Familiarity with game engines (e.g., Unity, Unreal Engine) and scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, C#) is a plus.

• User-Centered Design: Strong skills in user research, information architecture, interaction design, and usability testing. Ability to translate complex requirements into elegant and intuitive UX solutions.

• Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams. Experience leading design projects from concept to delivery.

You might also have

• Experience with multiplayer game design or live service game operations.

• Familiarity with game engines (e.g., Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot) and scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, C#) is a plus.

• Experience in designing for accessibility and inclusivity in development tools.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.

• International relocation support is not available for this position.

• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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