Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is the world’s foremost entertainment company, looking for creative professionals to join their gaming division. As a Principal UX Designer, you will support developers in enhancing user experience across a diverse portfolio of games, ensuring high-quality standards throughout the development cycle.
Responsibilities
- Advocate for user experience improvements with data-informed vision and design rationale
- Resolve experiential friction and optimize player flow by leading discovery, enforcing best practices, and rapid iteration
- Support high-level design goals with intuitive UX flows for mechanics and game features
- Work with development partners to provide feedback, resources, and guidance across UX disciplines
- Collaborate with Consumer Insights partners to establish platform-level guidance
- Build wireframes, interactive prototypes, and presentations as needed for proof of concept and implementation
- Review material across a broad spectrum of genres and diverse interests to give clear and actionable direction
- Capture, communicate, and align experiential priorities, risks, and opportunities to help guide our games to player-experience first execution
- Work with project leadership to establish best quality practices and champion user-centric design
Skills
- 10+ years experience developing games in a UX / XD leadership role
- Experience working with distributed or external teams
- Comprehensive experience design knowledge and ability to execute across multiple genres and form factors
- Ability to articulate critical and meaningful feedback to influence direction without relying on positional authority
- A record of leading successful cross-disciplinary efforts in the UX / XD domain
- Development and execution of internal creative tools and processes
- Solid skills in standardized prototyping and design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
- Identify and distinguish opportunities for innovation
- A proven track record of executing with excellence in user experience
- A history of strong relationships with recognition as a valued partner in meeting company objectives
- An advocate for the player, prioritizing low-friction and approachable interface and flow
- Comfortable working with frequent context switching and bringing clarity to ambiguity
- Excel in a fast-paced, high-volume, high-agency environment
- Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and committed to embodying Netflix's culture of high performance, curiosity, freedom, and responsibility
- Supporting skills in visual and UI design a plus
Benefits
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- A 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Stock Option Program
- Disability Programs
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Family-forming benefits
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- Paid leave of absence programs
- Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off
- Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off
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