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Senior Staff UX Designer (Metaverse)
Senior Staff UX Designer (Metaverse)
Epic Games is seeking a Senior Staff UX Designer to lead the UX strategy and design for its metaverse products. This role involves defining user needs, product requirements, and design guidelines, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive and engaging user experiences from concept to launch.
About the role
About the Role
Epic Games is looking for a Senior Staff UX Designer to help us build the future of the Metaverse and the tools to bring it to life. We’re seeking an experienced, passionate, and visionary leader with a desire to define the foundations of an emerging field. If you are comfortable charting unknown territory with curiosity and courage, then this is the role for you!
What You'll Do
- Identify, define, and drive UX strategy for Epic's metaverse products, including user needs, product requirements, design guidelines, and overall user experience vision.
- Lead end-to-end user experience design, from concept to launch, for complex systems and features, ensuring alignment with product goals and user needs.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers to translate product requirements into intuitive and engaging user interfaces and experiences.
- Conduct user research, usability testing, and other user-centered design activities to gather insights and validate design decisions.
- Develop and maintain detailed wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and specifications to effectively communicate design ideas and solutions.
- Advocate for user-centered design principles and best practices across the organization, mentoring junior designers and fostering a culture of design excellence.
- Contribute to the evolution of our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in UX design, particularly within the metaverse and gaming space.
What We're Looking For
- Proven track record of success in designing and shipping complex digital products, with a focus on platform-level experiences or metaverse-related projects.
- Expertise in user research methodologies, usability principles, and interaction design best practices.
- Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Miro, Spline, Unreal Engine, or other relevant 3D tools.
- Strong portfolio showcasing your UX design process, problem-solving skills, and ability to create impactful user experiences.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively articulate design decisions and rationale to diverse stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple projects and priorities effectively.
- A passion for gaming, virtual worlds, and the future of interactive entertainment.
- Experience with design systems and their implementation is a plus.
- Experience in UX leadership or mentoring roles.
- Strong understanding of design processes and ability to lead and guide teams through complex design challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to drive UX strategy and contribute to product vision.
- Exceptional creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.