Principal UX Designer-Monopoly Go!
Scopely
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Principal UX Designer-Monopoly Go!
Scopely is seeking a Principal UX Designer to join the Monopoly Go! team. This role offers flexibility, allowing for a hybrid work arrangement at our Culver City studio hub or remote work from anywhere within the United States or Canada.
At Scopely, we are passionate about inspiring play daily, both within our collaborative work environments and through deep connections with our global community of players. We are a team of game enthusiasts dedicated to developing, publishing, and innovating in the mobile games industry, connecting millions worldwide every day.
What You Will Do
As a hands-on Principal UX Designer, you will collaborate with feature teams to develop new mini-game experiences for players. Your work will focus on driving engagement, introducing novelty, and fostering deeper in-game social connections.
- Identify and explore new mini-game experience opportunities.
- Lead discovery initiatives to understand player preferences and abilities for new game mechanics.
- Drive the ideation of new concepts, facilitating brainstorming sessions, and creating conceptual designs and prototypes for testing new ideas.
- Innovate existing mini-games by reimagining experiences and surprising players, while adhering to UX pillars and product vision.
- Contribute to frameworks ensuring UX consistency and integrity across mini-games, balancing novelty with shared guidelines.
- Champion user testing within the UX process, collaborating with the research team to identify risks, determine priorities, and produce testing materials.
- Deliver comprehensive designs and documentation to effectively communicate player experience to development teams.
- Own working group results, ensuring alignment to vision and goals, and solving cross-domain challenges.
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of professional games UX design experience.
- Proven track record in creating impactful social gameplay features, demonstrating deep expertise in game mechanics, player motivations, rewards, and framing.
- Proficiency in developing innovative features, adapting processes based on project complexity and novelty.
- Expertise in creating and utilizing prototypes for testing and refining gameplay, with a focus on rapid iteration and improvement.
- Ability to navigate between immediate design challenges and higher-level design principles, ensuring tactical execution aligns with strategic goals.
- Highly collaborative and expert communicator who actively shares ideas, seeks feedback, and drives iterative design toward consensus.
Key skills/competency
- UX Design
- Game Design
- Prototyping
- User Research
- Mobile Games
- Social Gameplay
- Player Engagement
- Interaction Design
- Design Systems
- Cross-functional Collaboration
How to Get Hired at Scopely
- Research Scopely's culture: Study their mission, values, and diverse portfolio of mobile games like Monopoly Go!. Explore employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor to understand their collaborative environment.
- Tailor your resume for game UX: Highlight your 8+ years of game UX design, specifically focusing on social gameplay features, player motivations, and prototyping experience crucial for Scopely.
- Showcase your portfolio: Prepare a strong portfolio demonstrating your impact on engaging mobile game experiences, user testing methodologies, and design documentation. Emphasize your contribution to successful mini-game mechanics.
- Master the behavioral interview: Practice articulating how you lead discovery initiatives, facilitate ideation, and champion user-centric design within a fast-paced game development setting.
- Demonstrate strategic thinking: Be ready to discuss how you balance immediate design challenges with broader UX consistency and strategic product goals within the mobile gaming landscape.
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