Lead User Interface Designer For Game Company

Lead User Interface Designer

WE ARE REVOLUTIONIZING ENTERTAINMENT!

Have you got the passion and talent to lead the User Experience team for web and mobile applications at the next great publisher of online games and entertainment? Have you turned product ideas into exceptional applications for e-commerce sites, games, or social networks? We are merging online games with the web and mobile in a way that has never been done before!

Become a part of the best independent game developer and publisher. You can be a member of an all-star team committed to changing the game industry by bringing together the best of games, and traditional media. We empower every person here to contribute at full potential in an incredibly creative environment.

What you get to do every day

• Drive the process of turning product ideas into visualizations and refine product direction through user interface design

• Contribute to a range of consumer applications: web applications, mobile applications, and associated in-game controls

• Conduct UI research (competitive audits, secondary research) based on business and design goals for each product; present analysis to product manager & other stakeholders as inputs to product requirements

• Collaborate with product manager to translate product requirements into storyboards, flows, site maps & wireframes

• Iterate on these designs to incorporate functional specifications and produce highly accurate wireframes; ensure that produced pages match wireframe specifications

• Work with visual designers and/or engineering leads to determine efficacy of a given solution and to address edge cases during implementation

• Lead usability testing, including preparation of documents ( test plans, scenarios and questionnaires) and moderating individual sessions; synthesize and present results to stakeholders

• Evaluate UI post-release utilizing user data and propose improvements to existing products

• Participate in formal and informal design critiques to give clear, constructive and effective feedback to peers

• Help to build User Experience team

What you bring to the job in your professional toolkit

• BS/MS preferred in HCI, Information Science, or a design discipline -industrial, graphic, instructional, or architecture and a minimum of 5+ years in design of interfaces for consumer websites & web applications

• Expertise developing sites that incorporate e-commerce; social networks; user-driven content and community tools

• Highly demonstrable skills creating user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, screen prototypes and functional specifications

• Proven work with multidisciplinary teams mapping user research, test findings and gathering input from product managers to business objectives

• Ability to identify, articulate and advocate best practices of UI and usability principles, conduct usability tests, stakeholder interviews, competitive audits and heuristic evaluations

• Hands-on experience with Visio, Word, Illustrator, Photoshop, various HTML editors, HTML, CSS and JavaScript

• Able to meet deliverables and drive your work to completion within specified timelines

• Great communication skills both written and verbal

• Can work cross functionally in many areas without being constrained by your job function

• Collaborative, upbeat, work ethic where you can take ownership and have fun

• Able to influence and resolve issues effectively

What we would also like you to bring

• Online game experience is desired or the passion for gaming
• People management experience a plus

About Trion

Trion World Network, Inc. is the publisher and developer of original entertainment and games for the broadband era. Trion provides groundbreaking new capabilities and content to revolutionize global entertainment by combining the best elements of online, gaming, and traditional media. Backed by Tier 1 investors -Trinity Ventures and DCM, Trion combines unrivaled experience and vision in the online entertainment industry with a world-class team of Internet and gaming veterans who have worked on, developed, and shipped over 100 original titles, including such bestsellers and hit series as Heroes, Might and Magic, Lord of the Rings, Final Fantasy, James Bond, Tiger Woods, Star Wars, Prince of Persia, Dungeons and Dragons, Ultima, and Myst.

How do I apply for this fabulous position?

You meet the MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS above

Send your resume/link/PDF samples of your work to:

careers@trionworld.com

Please put- first name/last name: Title of position in the subject line of your email

Trion World Network, Inc. is an EOE employer that celebrates diversity

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