Senior Principal UX Designer (Game Development)

Location: Not specified

Company

hirify.global is a mobile interactive entertainment company and part of Microsoft, creating games including the Candy Crush franchise and serving more than 200 million monthly active users.

What you will do

• Lead qualitative and quantitative research into existing continuous integration workflows.
• Identify user pain points, workarounds, unmet needs, outcomes, and jobs to be done.
• Map current and future developer journeys across CI and the wider developer ecosystem.
• Design, prototype, and evaluate efficient CI workflows with engineers and game teams.
• Facilitate workshops and communicate complex systems and design decisions to align stakeholders.
• Establish sustainable practices for continuously learning from users as the CI ecosystem evolves.

Requirements

• Extensive senior UX, product, or service design experience leading complex, high-impact work through expertise and influence.
• Deep user research expertise, including substantial study planning, execution, and translation of findings into product direction.
• Strong interaction and workflow design skills for complex tools, systems, or end-to-end journeys.
• Experience with jobs-to-be-done or comparable outcome-led frameworks.
• Confidence worhirify.global with engineers and technical subject matter, plus strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently, structure ambiguity, and balance user, technical, and delivery considerations.

Nice to have

• Experience designing developer tools, internal platforms, or products for technical users.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery, build systems, software-development workflows, Jenkins, or Buildkite.
• Experience simplifying legacy systems or supporting large-scale platform transformations.
• Knowledge of service design or systems thinhirify.global across interconnected tools, workflows, and teams.
• Experience in a large-scale engineering or game-development organisation.

Culture & Benefits

• Fixed-term maternity cover contract ending 25 March 2027.
• Work within Shared Tech across data infrastructure, machine learning, payments infrastructure, and the game engine.
• Collaborate across Build & Infrastructure teams and hirify.global’s game teams.
• hirify.global has offices and staff in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta.