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# Lead UX Designer

- **Company:** Age of Learning
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $165,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Website Wireframe, Figma, Claude
- **Published:** October 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/935f55df-90c5-40ed-81cd-c8178c840e2b/lead-ux-designer

## About the Role

* 8+ years of experience in game design, UX design, or a hybrid of both, with shipped titles or products in your portfolio
 * Proven experience designing casual mobile games, with a strong grasp of engagement loops, progression systems, and player motivation
 * Proficiency in Figma for UX flows, interactive prototypes, and design specs
 * Demonstrated ability to design and tune game economy and metagame systems
 * Track record of delivering live-service content and iterating on features post-launch based on data
 * Comfort working with product analytics-pulling data, reading dashboards, and using metrics to drive decisions
 * Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; able to work fluidly with product, engineering, art, and education teams
 * Action-oriented with a producer mindset-you drive work forward and see it through to completion without waiting to be asked
 * Passion for and deep empathy with end users, especially children and families

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Experience designing for kids' products and/or educational platforms
 * Familiarity with early childhood learning principles or curriculum design
 * Experience with AI-assisted design tools integrated into a professional workflow
 * Background in both UX and game design disciplines (not just one or the other)
 * Experience at a company shipping subscription or live-service consumer products
 * Familiarity with ABCmouse or similar early learning platforms as a user, parent, or designer

The estimated salary range for a new hire in this position is below. Salary may vary depending on job-related factors, including knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

## Description

We're looking for a rare combination: a passionate, player-empathetic designer who can develop complex systems as well as clear, end-user experiences for children. The Lead UX Designer will work across all of ABCmouse's game experiences: improving existing activities, ideating new features and mechanics, and creating live-service content-while keeping the learning needs of young children at the center of every decision., * Lead end-to-end design of new game features and improvements to existing games, from concept through launch and live-service iteration

 * Create high-quality UX flows, wireframes, prototypes, and visual specs in Figma that communicate design intent clearly to engineering and product partners
 * Design and balance complex game metagame systems and economy mechanics that motivate and reward young learners
 * Use product data, user research, and competitive analysis to identify opportunities for improvement and validate design decisions
 * Collaborate closely with producers, engineers, educators, and artists to bring features from inception to shipped product
 * Champion the end user-primarily children ages 2-10 and their parents-throughout the design process, advocating for age-appropriate, accessible, and delightful experiences
 * Maintain a deep understanding of the ABCmouse product, user base, and competitive landscape to proactively surface improvement opportunities
 * Leverage AI tools (e.g., Claude, Sc, or similar) to accelerate design exploration, prototyping workflows, and launch of designs to our end users at high quality
 * Partner with data teams to pull and interpret metrics that inform ongoing feature refinement and live-service decisions
 * Contribute to design system standards and best practices for game design across the ABCmouse product and within AI tools and workflows