Principal UX Designer | Candy Crush Soda Saga

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Job Description:

Candy Crush Soda Saga is looking for a Principal UX designer for the Lifecycle area. Joining in the early stages of the area, you’ll get the opportunity to set the UX direction and foundation for how we work both within the area as well as together with other product areas.

Our area vision is to keep players engaged independently on where they are on their player journey, and by applying the lifecycle lens to the player experience we strive to find opportunities to unlock more fun for our players. The Principal UX designer will thus actively be driving the problem and solution discovery process for the area.

You will report to the Lifecycle Area Lead and work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, User Researchers, UI Designers, Game Designers, Engineers within your area and in other areas and business units.

Sound like an exciting challenge for you ? We can’t wait to meet you

• Drive problem and solution discovery and be an active partner to the Product Managers and the Tech Lead in your area

• Deliver design artifacts like problem/opportunity workshop mapping, information architecture, research analysis, interaction design, mockups, base flows, detailed flows, low- fi prototypes, hi- fi prototypes, UX guidelines and documentation. Making sure artifacts are clear for straightforward implementation of the features

• Decide and request UX research needs for the area

• Ensuring active cross area alignment and collaboration from a design perspective

• Provide mentorship to other more junior UX designers within Soda

• Excellent communication skills - you can adapt your message based on audience and enjoy building relationships across all levels of the organization

• Holistic thinking and pragmatism when faced with short- term vs long- term challenges

• Have an excellent understanding of the product development cycle in an agile environment

• Knowledge of and experiences from designing within the casual gaming space

• Have significant experience in UX Design, including high skills in Interaction Design and Information Architecture

• Stellar prototyping skills

• Be an Inclusive Design and Accessibility advocate

• Analytical approach using both quantitative and qualitative insights including solid experience with foundational user research

• F2P mobile game development experience

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20- year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level- up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level- up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com