Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pipeworks Studios is hiring a UI/UX Designer II to own the experience design for a digital collectible card game. The role defines player flows, interaction models, and production-ready UX specifications, collaborating with design, UI art, engineering, and other teams from concept through delivery.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end UX for data-driven actions and player flows across core card gameplay, persistence, progression, and related metagame systems
- Translate game design goals, rules, and system data into information architecture, user journeys, screen flows, wireframes, prototypes, and implementation-ready specifications
- Define interaction behavior, content hierarchy, states, transitions, edge cases, data requirements, and acceptance criteria so art and engineering can execute with minimal ambiguity
- Partner with game design, UI art, engineering, production, QA, and external stakeholders to carry features from concept through implementation, validation, and delivery
- Lead UX reviews, communicate design rationale, reconcile feedback, and maintain a consistent player experience across interconnected features
- Validate designs through playtests, usability reviews, and available player feedback, then iterate based on findings
- Establish reusable UX patterns and documentation practices that improve consistency and reduce rework
- Scope and plan owned work, surface risks and dependencies early, and provide craft guidance to designers working on connected flows
Skills
- Strong interaction-design and systems-thinking skills, with demonstrated experience turning complex rules, data, and state changes into clear player actions and feedback
- Proficiency in information architecture, user flows, wireframing, interactive prototyping, and annotated production specifications
- Strong understanding of visual hierarchy, usability, accessibility, readability, and consistency across data-rich interfaces
- Ability to anticipate alternate states, transitions, edge cases, error conditions, and the ways content may scale over time
- Proficiency with Figma or comparable UI/UX design and prototyping tools
- Proven ability to collaborate with UI artists and engineers throughout implementation while balancing player needs, creative goals, and technical constraints
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present rationale, resolve conflicting feedback, and document decisions for distributed teams and external partners
- Five or more years of professional UI/UX, product design, or game design experience
- Contributions to two or more shipped games or comparable production releases, including at least one feature or system led from concept through delivery
- Experience with free-to-play (F2P) collectible card games (CCGs), whether through professional development or demonstrated subject matter expertise, is highly preferred
- Experience designing UI/UX for digital collectible card games, deck-builders, strategy games, or other data-dense game systems
- Shipped ownership of persistence, progression, collection, or other interconnected metagame experiences
- Experience working on licensed intellectual property or in a co-development environment with external partner reviews
- Familiarity with in-engine UI frameworks, proprietary UI tools, or implementation workflows
- Experience using usability studies, playtest findings, or telemetry to evaluate and improve player flows
- Prefer portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex interaction flows, design rationale, iteration, cross-discipline collaboration, and final outcomes
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401K with employer match
- Employer Paid Life Insurance Policy
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 18 Paid Company Holidays
- Relocation
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Fitness Club Discounts
- Sports Team Sponsorship
- Annual Company Events
- Project Wrap Parties
- Flexible working environment: choice of remote, in-office, or hybrid work
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