Job Posting Title
UX Designer
Summary
Big Fish Games is looking for a talented mobile games UX Designer to help us raise the bar for our new genre-bending social casino app. This designer will be working with internal teams, as well as external partners, to create a compelling user centered game-play experience. The UX Designer collaborates closely with the rest of the UI/UX team, Art, Game Design, Engineering, and Product.
Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teammates: (game designers, art leads, product managers, producers, engineers, and QA) to scope features, tune existing features, help define and craft the overall user experience.
• Understand user behavior and motivations: use qualitative and quantitative research methods in collaboration with the research team and product team to gain deep user insights
• Help drive awareness: advocates the importance of human-computer interaction challenges and opportunities, user feedback, journey mapping and data-driven decisions in designing the end-to-end user experience.
• Collaborate with research: to use qualitative and quantitative research methods to gain deep user insights
• Generate UX assets: strategy, sketches, mind maps, flow charts, wireframes, mockups and interactive prototypes while iterating based on data from research- know when different UX methods are appropriate given scope
• Cascade UX insights: prepare production files, documentation, and specs for UI designers and developers across disciplines
• Push UX boundaries: explore the latest emerging trends through independent research and share that information with your team and fellow UX designers

Qualifications

• Passion for user-centered design and with a fascination for understanding the human experience
• A team player, open to critique from all disciplines, and not afraid to share your ideas
• Knowledge of responsive UI, animation in UI, and other trends demonstrated in top performing mobile apps
• Continuously learning, constantly seeking opportunities to experiment, fail fast, optimize workflows and foster open communication
• Proactive and straightforward, demonstrating excellent written and oral communication skills
• A curious and critical thinker, able to articulate complex ideas with humility (and a healthy dose of humor)
• Independent, organized yet flexible, and able to prioritize effectively without losing sight of the big picture
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) and wireframing software (Figma, Miro, XD).
• Familiarity with technical limitations of development tools like Unity a plus

• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions
• 2+ years of experience as a user experience designer
• Experience and knowledge creating games, websites, interactive spaces, or apps

About Big Fish
Celebrating 20 years delighting players worldwide, Big Fish Games is a mobile games category leader in Casual & Social Casino.
Big Fish operates an extensive portfolio of popular games across genres, including EverMerge, Cooking Craze, Gummy Drop, Big Fish Casino, Jackpot Magic Slots, and Fairway Solitaire. Our core values: All about the player, Talent Unleashed, CollectiveBrilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen.
Why Big Fish?
At Big Fish Games, we make the best games, the best possible way. We show up every day to enchant and delight our players and contribute to building a great company. We think big because that's what our players demand.
Our Values

• All about the Player
• Talent Unleashed
• Collective Brilliance
• Good Business Good Citizen

The US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.
Location
Remote, WA
Job family
UI/UX
Contract Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Company
Big Fish Games