Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)

Skillz · Las Vegas NV

Company

Skillz

Location

Las Vegas NV

Type

Full Time

Job Description

About Skillz:

Skillz is driving the future of entertainment by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for a booming mobile-first audience worldwide. The company’s platform empowers mobile game developers and players with access to fun and fair competition for real prizes, shifting the paradigm to make esports accessible to anyone, anywhere.

Skillz helps developers build multi-million dollar game franchises by turning content into competitive social gaming properties for the world’s 2.6 billion gamers. The company has already worked with 20,000 game developers, leveraging its patented technology to host billions of casual esports tournaments for 30 million players worldwide.

Last year, Skillz was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and CNBC Disruptor 50 (for the second time). In 2018, Skillz was listed as one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies. In 2017, Inc. Magazine ranked Skillz the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America. 

The company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports luminaries, ranging from Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and a founder of Great Hill Partners to the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings.

Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000, and in May 2021, Skillz was awarded “Best Places to Work”. 

 
Are you a top Senior Product Designer that wants to grow in your career?

Only 2% of mobile game developers reach success. Do you want to help the other 98%?
 
If you’ve designed UI/UX  in gaming then you know it’s incredibly fun and challenging. So many great problems to solve for VERY passionate players. If you haven’t worked in gaming, now is your chance! 

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help us create the UX/UI for competitive mobile gaming experiences. This high-visibility team is the bread and butter of Skillz. We design the UI for the SDK that is in thousands of games, played by over a half million people a day (and growing!) We constantly build and constantly ship. 

Do you have an amazing eye for design? Can you speak the same language as a PM? Do you ask why and then ask why again? Are you a proactive problem solver who seeks challenges and fights for the user? Please note, this job is not for the meek or the designers who just want to work in a 100px by 100px square on a social media site. You will own entire features and be expected to deliver at high quality. If this fires you up then read on.

(Along with your resume, please include a link to your portfolio)

Our Values:

• Honor
• Mission
• Collaboration
• Productivity
• Willingness
• Frugality
• Balance
What You'll Do:
  • Work end-to-end, tackling complex user needs from sketching to low and high fidelity prototypes
  • Own feature designs that create engaging and immersive mobile experiences across multiple device types on iOS & Android
  • Leverage solid design rationale to create intuitive platform experiences that engages and delights players
  • Gain a deep understanding of our target users through observations, research, and analytics so that you can champion their needs
  • Be the champion of our target users by deeply understanding their needs through observations, research, and analytics
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other designers to incorporate feedback and uncover compelling design solutions
  • Think about design as a system, contributing to and maintaining our design system in order to influence quality and efficiency for all our teams and products
Your Skillz:
  • 4+ years of professional experience as a UX or Product Designer
  • Mobile design experience for iOS and Android
  • Portfolio that showcases sound product thinking and strong design rationale through navigation, user flows, interaction design, and information architecture
  • Portfolio that demonstrates strong understanding of how users engage with the aesthetics of a product through the use of typography, color, imagery, layout, and grid systems
  • Ability to manage deadlines and collaborate in a cross functional environment
  • Capable of supporting your designs with strong rationale, research, and effective communication
  • Experience with motion design and animation is huge plus

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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Date Posted

11/07/2022

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