Senior UX Designer

Craft:
UX & UI

Job Description:
*Job Description:
Candy Crush Candy Saga is looking for a Senior UX Designer to bring their passion for games and design to craft delightful player experiences for our players worldwide.
Your role within the Kingdom
Your role is to craft experiences that keep, engage, and delight our global Candy Crush Saga audience.
The role requires someone versatile and willing to take on diverse creative challenges to help us build meta systems and features for Candy Crush Saga, played by millions worldwide. Across all stages of the design process, you will work closely with other designers, engineers, researchers, and business stakeholders to uncover new opportunities, execute compelling design ideations, and develop end-to-end solutions that bring simplicity, intuition, and delight to complex and social systems.
Your responsibilities will include*

• Drive the UX design of core meta game systems and key game features, ensuring alignment with the game's creative vision, player needs, and business goals.
• Ensure creative excellence through wireframes, flows, copywriting, low-fi, and hi-fi mockups, and animated, interactive prototypes.
• Collaborate with other UX peers to strike a cohesive overall meta experience.
• Work closely with Game Designers, UI designers, Artists, and Developers to deliver design solutions for identified problem/opportunity spaces.
• Analyse competitor games to gather insights and work closely with UX Researchers, Analysts, and Product Managers to ensure hypotheses are properly validated and that data and player insights are turned into meaningful experiences.
• Explore new opportunities and practices, AI tooling, and UX theories to enhance our methodological toolkits.

*Skills to create the thrills*

• Proficiency and years of demonstrated success in UX design for free-to-play mobile games.
• Excellent communicator, possessing strong oral, written, and social skills to execute copywriting tasks and express the rationale behind design decisions.
• Experience in UX strategy and design thinking, with validated expertise in designing features and core systems for games.
• Knowledge of technical constraints, optimisation, and implementation.
• Expertise in the prototyping tool Figma and knowledge of and interest in copywriting, emerging AI tools (e.g., Figma Make), and freemium best practices.
• Highly creative, with a knack for developing standout ideas that bring the "wow" to our players.
• Experience working in an agile environment and the ability to change things on the fly.

*About King*
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch.

We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It's what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we're not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you.

There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful

*About King
With a mission of
Making the World Playful
, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as
Farm Heroes Sag*
a. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.