Senior Product Designer, Games

The role

A Senior Product Designer will develop new Games experiences and evolve core experiences across web and apps. You will partner with cross-functional teams on product strategy, design exploration, and prototyping.

What you will do

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teammates on product strategy and discovery.
• Lead design exploration by producing multiple solutions and establishing requirements.
• Prototype and validate ideas through user testing.
• Present design rationale and build alignment around decisions.
• Turn concepts into detailed, production-ready flows, mocks, screens, and specifications.
• Work with engineers and product teams on implementation tradeoffs and shipped experiences.
• Contribute to Figma libraries, shared design systems, and engineering documentation.
• Ensure experiences meet brand and accessibility standards.
• Facilitate discovery sessions and contribute to design rituals.
• Mentor teammates and improve team processes and documentation.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of design experience working within cross-functional teams
• A portfolio that shows your thought process and finished design work
• Demonstrated experience building, maintaining, and applying design systems in environments with legacy UI or multiple parallel component libraries
• Fluency in UX best practices for responsive web and mobile
• Knowledge of usability and accessible, inclusive design (including typography scales, contrast, motion, and semantics)
• Proficiency in Figma and Rive or equivalent software

Nice to have

• Experience contributing to a design system across web and native apps
• Partnered with platform or infrastructure teams on foundational refactors or component-library migrations
• Experience shaping design practices such as critiques, documentation, or templates; facilitating discovery with stakeholders; and aligning design intent with implementation through design tokens, comp

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
• company-matching 401(k) plan
• employee stock purchase plan
• paid vacation
• paid sick days
• paid parental leave
• tuition reimbursement
• professional development programs

Before you apply

• Submit your own work and do not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process

About the company

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