About the Job and Role
We are seeking a Lead Product Designer with a passion for gaming. As a Lead
Product Designer at our gaming company, you will play a crucial role in shaping
the user experience and visual design of our gaming products. You will work
closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, game
developers, and user researchers, to create innovative and engaging
experiences for our players. This role requires a deep understanding of both the
gaming industry and user-centered design principles.
Responsibilities:
User Experience (UX) Design:
- Ability to conduct and understand user research to understand player needs, behaviors, and preferences.
- Create user journeys, mockups, prototypes, storyboards, and presentations to effectively communicate design ideas.
- Design intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for games, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable player journey.
- Pitch and present concepts, proposals, and updates to stakeholders and translate complex concepts and interactions into simple, elegant, and coherent design.
- Visual Design and System:
- Develop visually stunning and cohesive design elements while working closely with other designers and brand teams.
- Maintain consistency in design across different platforms and devices.
- Proficiency in building Design Systems and Prototyping frameworks.
- Prototyping and Iteration:
- Create interactive prototypes to test and iterate on design concepts.
- Gather feedback from play-testing and user testing sessions to refine and improve designs.
- Work closely with developers to ensure the implementation aligns with the intended design.
Collaboration:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and brand teams.
- Communicate design ideas and concepts effectively, fostering a collaborative and creative environment.
- Participate in design critiques and contribute to the overall design vision of the gaming products.
- Research and Stay Updated:
- Stay informed about industry trends, competitor products, and emerging technologies in the gaming space.
- Apply insights from gaming and design research to enhance the overall user experience.
Accessibility and Inclusivity:
- Ensure that designs are accessible and inclusive to a diverse player base.
- Advocate for inclusive design practices and consider diverse needs in the design process.
Team Leadership & Mentorship
- Coach and mentor designers, raising the craft and critical thinking of the team.
- Provide actionable feedback through design critiques and 1:1s.
- Identify skill gaps and facilitate growth through hiring, training, or process changes.
Desired Skills & Qualifications
At Baazi, we prioritise product principles and gamers first approach.
- 6-10 years of professional experience on a product design team.
- Proven experience in all phases of the design process including user research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing
- Ability to lead a team/POD towards end user goals.
- Knowledge of relevant tools like Figma, Photoshop, After Effects.
- An intuitive eye for customer needs beyond the obvious.
- Excellent attention to detail wrt to design deliveries as well as ensuring experience reaching the users what was designed for them.
- A strong track record of collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to conduct, interpret, and present qualitative and quantitative feedback and research.
- Exceptional communication skills for conveying design concepts and roadmaps.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Critically analyse the success of your solutions and iterate.
- Understanding of business objectives and execution of said objectives.
- A well-rounded portfolio showcasing strong problem solving and visual aesthetics with end outcomes.
- Staying updated with trends around and helping teams having knowledge of the same.
- Any previous experience with building gaming project or product would be a great +
Portfolio
- We are looking for your most recent and impressive projects to evaluate your
- skills properly.
- A diverse portfolio is ideal for providing a quick summary of accomplishments
- and abilities. It is crucial that an illustrator's portfolio includes reviews and
- references in addition to prior work.
- Also if you have passion for games, it gets us more excited :)
