Senior UI​/UX Designer

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

As a Senior UX & UI Designer
, you will focus on generating human-centered experiences with a strong emphasis on interaction and visual design. Reporting to the Lead UX Designer, you will generate and implement user-centric solutions while working collaboratively with Artists, Engineers, Live Ops, Game Design, Production, Product Management, and UX Design across various product areas. You are highly organized, self-motivated, and an excellent communicator who can effortlessly move between high and low-level problems.

You have an inherent desire to understand players and to represent them in our games.

This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Key Accountabilities:
• End-to-end ownership of the user experience of key game features.
• Define goals, requirements, and evaluate their impact on the project and users.
• Engages in and leads conversations with stakeholders to communicate design solutions.
• Works closely with the Product Owner, the Team, and other cross-functional Teams (Marketers, User Researchers, and Data Analysts) to deliver a unique and strong user experience.
• Delivery of user flows, low and high-fidelity wireframes, documentation, and presentations.
• Delivery of interaction and visual designs.
• Delivery and refinement of designs in engine.
• Supports the team-lead by delegating work, assisting other team-members and disciplines when required, and contributing to scheduling and capacity planning.
• Mentors other UX designers, promoting collaboration, and helping with any extra workload.
• Proactively finds ways to improve games and processes.
• Learns and shares best practices with the team.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Education background in Interaction Design, HCI, Psychology, or a design related field with Human Factors.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating effective solutions for human-centered design challenges and visual design problems.

• 6+ years of experience as a UI and/or UX Designer or Product Designer in a professional capacity. Preferably within video games.
• An expert level of expertise in using design tools commonly used in the industry, including Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop, and others.
• Skilled with Figma, the Adobe Suite, and prototyping software.
• Understanding the principal knowledge of target players or user needs, motivations, behaviors, and constraints.
• The ability to solve complex problems in resourceful and effective ways, with human-centered design in mind.
• Experience with Inclusive Design and advocacy.
• Exceptional eye for visual design.
• Ability to own multiple features.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Self-starter and excellent prioritizing skills.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Unity is a major plus.
• Ability to translate product KPIs into UX deliverables.
• Experience with data-driven design (quantitative).
• Experience in user research.
• Experience working on free-to-play games.
• A passion for games.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a…