Kabam
Lead UX Designer
Vancouver · Full-time
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About the role
- We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill.
Responsibilities
- Own significant design problems directly as a hands-on contributor, setting the quality bar by example.
- Define and drive UX outcomes for live features and longer-term product bets.
- Lead and mentor a team of UI, Technical UI, and UX Designers, developing them through direct collaboration and review.
- Own the UI and UX process, coalescing product, game design, engineering, art, and live ops needs into actionable artifacts.
- Present and communicate design intent and outcomes to stakeholders, driving designs to completion at the highest quality.
- Collaborate with the leadership team on capacity plans, development, and the product roadmap.
- Partner with data and UXR teams to build a deep understanding of players and create meaningful experiences for them.
- Partner with the UXR team to test and validate designs.
- An exceptional portfolio demonstrating effective solutions to human-centered design and visual design problems, ideally including live or shipped product work.
Requirements
- You are highly organized, self-motivated, and an excellent communicator who moves easily between high-level strategy and low-level detail.
- You have an inherent desire to understand players and to represent them in the game.
- Experience with Inclusive Design and advocacy.
Nice to have
- Expert-level command of Figma (the team's primary tool) and the Adobe Suite, plus strong prototyping skills.
- Familiarity with other industry tools (Sketch, and similar) is welcome.
- Experience with Unity, including the UI pipeline, is a major plus.
- Ability to translate product KPIs into UX deliverables.
- Experience with data-driven (quantitative) design.
- Experience in user research.
- Experience working with licensed IP and brand guidelines.
- A passion for games and for Marvel.
Skills
- And this is where you come in…
Compensation
- We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
Benefits
- DEIB is important to us and to our people - that's why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
- Commuter Benefit: we believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and want to support you in making it work for you!
- We provide a flexible, monthly cash allowance to help cover the costs of transit, parking, or even personal logistics like childcare and pet care.
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: t his program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
- Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
- our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you're able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
- Foster an environment for knowledge sharing and learning.
- Education in Interaction Design, HCI, Cognitive Science, Psychology, or a design-related field with Human Factors.
- Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
- we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
Company info
- Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver & Montreal in Canada, and Los Angeles & San Francisco in the United States.
This listing is sourced directly from Kabam's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.