Are you someone that puts the user first and enjoys collaborating with different team members? We're looking for a UX Designer for the Candy Crush Saga team to join us and utilise their design experience and UX knowledge to create an amazing player experience. Are you excited to grow your skills in the games industry and collaborate with your team to help improve design processes and work with product stakeholders? If you feel this is you, then we'd love for you to apply!

Your role within the Kingdom

If you are passionate about meaningfully contributing to creating immersive, intuitive user experiences and delighting millions of players, then this is the ideal role for you.

 

Your responsibilities would include:

• Collaborate with designers (game, UI, level, economy, narrative, UX Writers) to create and uphold the UX vision for the game.

• Partner with product stakeholders and understand how to use data to help guide game and feature improvements.

• Embracing a healthy feedback culture; we encourage our UX designers to give and receive constructive feedback as we strive to make even better products together.

• Represent the players’ needs through analysis, empathy and balancing them with our business needs.

• Present your design work and articulate and justify your design decisions within your feature team and other stakeholders through excellent communication skills.

• Effectively analyze data from user research projects.

• Occasionally lead and conduct  qualitative studies that contribute to a better understanding of our players and persona definitions.

• Advocate for HCI (Human Computer Interaction) principles are adhered to and ensure design proposals demonstrate these principles.

 

Skills

• Great communication skills.

• You have experience in Visual Communication and Prototyping.

• You are familiar with the fundamentals of Interaction Design and Information Architecture.

• Good understanding of HCI principles.

• Designing for Accessibility and Inclusion.

• Follows a Design Thinking process.

• Help facilitate workshops with a cross-functional team.

 

Bonus Points

• Experience working in Figma.

• Experience conducting qualitative research.

• Experience with guidance and mentorship.

• Familiarity with Agile software development and its processes.

• Mobile game development experience.

What makes King a great place to work is all our people. We’re powered by a determination to be better tomorrow than we are today - and to have some fun along the way. So we offer sweet benefits and perks to match.

• Competitive pay

We always check the market to make sure our pay is competitive. And we have profit sharing to reward our people for having an impact at King.

• Coverage for the important life stuff

We make sure you can plan for the future. We’ve got you covered with medical insurance, financial saving plans, and other local offerings depending on where you live.

• Time off

We have a generous holiday allowance, most of our offices close between 25 December and the New Year, and you can take a day to volunteer and give back to your community.

• Learning opportunities are everywhere

Learn@King has hundreds of courses, books, and resources you can access anytime. Want to advance your C++, or Java skills? How about a live drawing workshop? We’ve got those too. We also do special assignments for on the job learning and we’re part of Activision Blizzard so career options are everywhere.

• Next level workspaces

We have open spaces, desks on wheels, jam boards, cosy nooks for when you need to get in the zone, and rooms for teams to map it all out. Since our job is making the world playful we also have ping pong tables, cosy couches, and gaming zones. Yep, coffee, healthy snacks, drinks, and breakfast too.

• Wellbeing

Wellbeing is important to us. Doing your best work requires being your best self. Our offices either have a gym on site or offer a gym & wellbeing allowance.

• Employee networks to connect with people

Our employee networks bring people together. You can get involved in the planning or just enjoy perks! Whether its theatre trips, fitness classes, conversations on inclusion, or Pride, passionate employees make it all happen.

• Kingfomarket

We don’t want to brag but Kingfomarket is kind of a big deal. Every year the entire company gets together to learn, share ideas, focus on the future, and celebrate our wins. Our events in general are epic but Kingfomarket is one of a kind.

• Carbon offsetting

We want a playful and sustainable world so we participate in CO2 offsetting each year to make us carbon neutral across our office footprint, business travel, and game’s servers energy consumption.

• King Swag

Use your Royal Store tokens to get some sweet headphones or a King trolley (that’s a suitcase for our US peeps). You’ll get new tokens every year so don’t forget to pick out a gift for your friends who are candy crushing over the fact that you work for King.