UX Designer

Rockstar Games
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Adobe Creative Cloud
Data analysis
Video Game Development
Human-Computer Interaction
Interaction Design
Software Prototyping
Service Design
Figma

Job description

  • Work with tools developers, artists and animators to identify and understand business requirements, generate design ideas and produce developer-ready specifications.
  • Review existing tools and workflows with artists and animators using established UX techniques to identify and document problem areas in their workflows.
  • Ensure consistency across tools, particularly where content creators are spanning multiple tools in their workflow.
  • Champion Human-Centred Design (HCD) principles and processes, ensuring outcomes meet both business and user goals.
  • Contribute to the overall product strategy and relationships with other teams.
  • Demonstrate exceptional problem solving, craft and IxD skills, underpinned by a strong understanding of systems.
  • Demonstrate excellent knowledge of UX process and evidence-based design methodologies.
  • Confidently collaborate and present work to team and stakeholders, taking ownership for the timely execution of all project deliverables.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a UX Designer or Interaction Designer.
  • Portfolio demonstrating applied human centred design processes and principles.
  • Proficiency in Figma, Adobe CS, Sketch and other prototyping tools.
  • Experience leading UX from the start to the end of a project with a deep understanding of standard UX, UCD and service design processes.
  • Understanding of how insights and data guide UX processes, with an understanding of good usability and accessibility practices.
  • Ability to identify business issues and generate designs that solve workflow and user interaction problems.
  • Strong experience with user flows and complex interactive prototypes at various levels of fidelity.
  • Strong communication, collaboration and presentation skills with confidence explaining designs and solutions to the wider team collaboratively.
  • Ability to think strategically, creatively and conceptually with an eye for detail and strong design skills., * Strong interest and understanding of game development tools.
  • Experience with telemetry and analytics.
  • Experience in technical art or tools development.
  • Experience designing enterprise software.
  • Knowledge of best practice for Windows applications.
  • Experience building and maintaining design systems and component libraries.

Benefits & conditions

  • Training Provided
  • Regular team and company events
  • Free drinks, fruit or food
  • Subsidized public transport
  • Flexible working
  • Free Gym or Gym Subsidy
  • Private Medical/Dental healthcare
  • Annual Health Check
  • Bonus/Reward Scheme
  • Childcare Vouchers
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Language Classes

About the company

At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry. Rockstar is on the lookout for a talented Senior UX Designer who possesses a passion for video games and how they are made. This is a full-time, permanent and in-office position based in Rockstar's state-of-the-art game development studio in Edinburgh, Scotland., * We create and maintain software tools that are used by all game development disciplines to support the creation of all Rockstar Games projects. * These software tools range from digital content exporters, a data processing asset pipeline to game, CI/CD automation systems and UI editors.

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