Senior UI/UX Designer

Senior UI/UX Designer SENIOR UI/UX DESIGNER JOB DESCRIPTION At Day[9]’s unannounced game studio, we are crafting a next-generation multiplayer strategy game for PC. As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will play a critical role in shaping how players understand, interact with, and enjoy a complex real-time game. You will be responsible for designing and implementing player-facing UI systems that are clear, responsive, and deeply integrated with gameplay. This role sits at the intersection of design, implementation, and systems thinking. You will work hands-on in Unreal Engine to prototype, build, and polish UI, while collaborating closely with Design and Engineering to ensure that gameplay systems are communicated clearly and perform reliably in a real-time environment. RESPONSIBILITIES - UI/UX Design & Implementation: Design, prototype, and implement high-quality in-game and out-of-game UI using Unreal Engine’s UI systems, with a strong focus on clarity, responsiveness, and usability. - Real-Time Gameplay UI: Build UI that supports complex, information-dense, real-time gameplay, helping players make confident decisions under pressure. - Blueprint-Driven Development: Own UI implementation in Unreal using Blueprints, including widget logic, layout behavior, animations, transitions, and polish. - Systems-Level UX Thinking: Collaborate with designers and engineers to shape UI flows for complex player-facing systems, identifying friction points and proposing effective solutions. - Localization-Aware UI Design: Design UI layouts that are resilient to localization constraints, including variable text length, different character sets, and internationalization requirements. - World-Space & Screen-Space UI: Implement both traditional screen-space UI (menus, HUDs, overlays) and in-world UI elements (indicators, tooltips, contextual information). - Technical Collaboration: Work closely with engineering partners to integrate UI with underlying game systems, including data binding, state-driven updates, and performance considerations. - Iteration & Polish: Participate in frequent reviews, iterating on UI designs and implementations to achieve a high-quality bar for usability, readability, and feel. - Cross-Discipline Communication: Communicate clearly with design, engineering, art, and production to align on goals, constraints, and solutions. QUALIFICATIONS - Unreal UI Expertise: Deep fluency with Unreal Engine’s UI workflows, including Blueprint-based UI development and widget systems. - UI/UX Systems Thinking: Strong understanding of UX principles as applied to complex game systems, including information hierarchy, player feedback, and interaction flow. - Real-Time Game Experience: Demonstrated experience playing and understanding real-time strategy, MOBA, or similar real-time games, with strong intuition for player needs. - Technical Awareness: Comfortable working alongside engineers on data-driven UI, including state-based updates and performance-conscious design. - Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguous problems and take ownership of solutions. - Experience: Previous experience designing and implementing UI/UX for Unreal games. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Familiarity with MVVM-style UI architectures (eg or similar data-binding workflows. - Experience implementing world-space UI elements in Unreal. - Basic UI art skills, including the ability to create clean mockups, placeholders, or simple visual assets. - Experience working on multiplayer or real-time games. - Experience playing RTS or MOBA titles. Additional Information - This position is fully remote and open to candidates residing in time zones between US West and US East (UTC -8 to UTC -4). - We are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to cultivating an inclusive environment. - We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Please contact us to ... (truncated, view full listing at source)