Director, UI/UX

Demiurge is searching for an experienced UX designer/UI developer to guide our talented UX team through all phases of interface development, over multiple projects and genres. You are a diligent student of the best and newest game interface, across all platforms. You're comfortable making a wireframe, creating the perfect 'play' button, or picking fonts for a UI style guide. And you're an empathetic soul who intuits how interfaces can frustrate or delight our players.

At Demiurge you'll find a stable studio with an amazing, collaborative culture and a deep respect for UX in our mobile games. Our dedication to sane and sustainable development is well known in the Boston game community. We're working on exciting new projects with tons of fascinating UI challenges and opportunities. This is a great opportunity to flex your skills and develop new ones - join us!

Primary Responsibilities:

• Guide and grow a team of UX/UI designers
• Create amazing, intuitive interfaces for our games!
• Work closely with design and engineering to establish UI development pipelines and feature requirements
• Share your techniques and mentor folks
• Provide direction for external artists/teams
• Critique your own and others' work constructively, and raise our internal artistic bar

Qualifications:

• 1+ shipped mobile title as UX Lead
• 5+ years experience working on Game UX and UI
• Leadership history on prior projects
• Excellent personal, written and oral communication skills
• Broad knowledge of the many requirements and steps involved in delivering high quality interface art
• Skilled with industry tools: Illustrator, XD, Figma, Photoshop, Sketch
• Experience working in game engines: Unreal, Unity, or equivalent
• Strong sense of graphic design, font, color
• Portfolio or demo reel that demonstrates breadth of skill, styles, genres3+ years game industry employment
• Must be eligible to work in United States

Preference To Applicants With:

• Traditional illustration/fine arts training
• Experience in mobile, console, and pc interface development
• 2+ shipped titles
• BFA (or higher)Love for games, and who play them regularly
• Outside interests!

About Us:

Headquartered in Boston, MA at Demiurge you will find a studio with an amazing, collaborative culture and a deep respect for art in all our games. With over 20 years of game development expertise and teams all over North America our commitment to sane and sustainable development is well known in the game community. We also provide co-development services to larger, best-in-industry game companies. In this capacity, Demiurge has worked with some of the industry’s biggest hitters on exciting projects including Marvel Puzzle Quest, Teamfight Tactics, and Hearthstone Battlegrounds to name a few. This is an exciting time to join Demiurge as we are developing our own independent titles as well. With tons of challenges and opportunities ahead we are always looking for great talent! If you are looking for an exciting, creative, and collaborative studio come join us on Demiurge's next journey!

DEI Statement:

At Demiurge, we celebrate our differences and know that diverse perspectives empower us to build a stronger company and better games.

We work hard to create an equitable, safe and accessible work environment where all Demiurgers are empowered to be themselves and do their best work regardless of race, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or physical or mental ability.

We thrive on self-reflection, healthy debate, and mindful listening. We respect each other's opinions and seek new ideas.

We denounce hate, discrimination and racism in all forms.

What Demiurge Offers:

• 401K Partial Match

• Flexible work environment

• Generous PTO program including vacation days, sick days, and holidays. Earn-as-you-go plan that rolls over year to year, offering flexibility as well as the last week of December the studio closes to recharge

• Medical benefits with PPO options that start on your first day of employment

• Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) - Let us help you with your medical deductible!

• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (HC & DC FSA)

• Commuter Reimbursement Program (Commuter FSA)

• Tuition reimbursement promoting lifelong learning

• Referral bonuses

• Bonus plan

• So. Many. Games. - Access to our huge game library!

As well as a State of the Art Boston Studio with in Office Perks:

• Free snacks and drinks!

• Demi-Lunch Tuesday - Lunch is on us!

• Game Night Food

• Ping Pong!

• Step Mania! Get your dance on!

Demiurge Studios is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, or Veteran status. Demiurge Studios also makes workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities or special needs.

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