User Experience Designer III (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior User Experience Designer (Unpublished R&D Product): Design, tweak, and optimize player experiences in high-scope, complex, and ambiguous product areas with an accent on intuitive UX flows for mechanics and game features across platforms. Focus on building wireframes, interactive prototypes, journey maps, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to ensure experiential continuity and player delight.

Location: Los Angeles Only, USA

Salary: Base salary range $185,200 - $258,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity

Company

hirify.global develops player-focused games and experiences like League of Legends with a mission to put players first.

What you will do

• Develop intuitive UX flows for game mechanics and features, supporting high-level design goals.
• Build wireframes, interactive prototypes, and presentations for proof of concept and implementation.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, and art teams to drive player-experience-first design.
• Implement prototypes with engineering and UI support to demonstrate concepts.
• Articulate data-informed design decisions, rationale, and solutions to stakeholders.
• Deliver design artifacts like strategy frameworks, research results, journey maps, flows, mockups, and prototypes.
• Establish best practices, quality standards, and champion user-centered design methodologies with project leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience designing for games, digital experiences, products, or platforms as a User Experience Designer, Information Architect, Interaction Designer, or similar.
• Inspiring professional portfolio with examples of past work.
• Professional experience with Figma (preferred), Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, and other design/prototyping tools.

Nice to have

• BA/BS degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction/Interface Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent.
• Broad UX skills: interaction design, content strategy, user research, information architecture, prototyping, visual design, UI animation.
• Expertise designing UI across multiple devices and form factors.
• Deep experience designing for mobile games.
• Passion for or interest in strategy games.

Culture & Benefits

• Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules for work/life balance.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short/long-term disability.
• 401k with company match.
• Parental leave for you, spouse/domestic partner, and children.
• Collaborative teams empowered to bring unique perspectives.
• Player empathy and dedication to games valued.