Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc is seeking an UX Design Director to join our team on an unannounced project. You will shape the user experience for an ambitious new title and create immersive experiences for a global player community. This is a fully remote role open to candidates in North America, Canada, and Europe.
What You'll Do
- Champion and be accountable for the quality of UX Design within the studio.
- Develop, evolve, and lead the vision for UX Design within a cross-functional development environment across the entire game.
- Lead through influence and collaborate across all development disciplines and levels.
- Drive innovative UX solutions that align with core design and product requirements while enhancing the player experience.
- Drive and deliver a vision for scalable UX frameworks that support multiple platforms in the same ecosystem (PC, Console, Mobile).
- Present data-informed design decisions and solutions to team members, backed by clear rationale.
- Benchmark competing games and apply key insights to improve UI/UX design.
- Create and iterate on prototypes for new features and user flows, refining them based on feedback.
- Build game progression systems, user flows, and journey maps, communicating design rationale effectively.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years working on live service games’ UX design.
- Experience driving UX vision while building and managing a team of UX designers toward excellence.
- Priority for our players when making design decisions considering their diversity, limitations to their cognitive and physical abilities.
- Proven ability to create data-informed designs.
- Proficient in user experience design tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe XD).
- Experience creating clear and informative documentation.
- A strong sense for when the game’s graphic design supports or undermines the usability needs of a feature.
- Experience developing UX/UI on AAA games.
- Comfortable with prototyping in game engines, using editor tools/scripts.
Nice to Have
- Mobile game and Unreal Engine knowledge.
Technical Stack
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe XD
- Unreal Engine
Team & Environment
You will report directly to the Game Director.
Benefits & Compensation
- A generous PTO allowance.
- Summer and Winter holidays studio closure (separate to PTO allowance).
- Private Medical & Dental Healthcare.
- Private Mental Health scheme.
- A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance.
- Discretionary Studio Bonus.
- Top range tech for your home set up.
- Other benefits based on your region.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position open to candidates in North America, Canada, and Europe.
Escape Velocity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities. Applications will be considered regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.
