Lead Designer - User Interface/User Experience

Description

The Zynga design team is responsible for delivering the highest quality platform solutions, and is at the cutting edge of social interaction. To help us stay there we need an experienced Lead User Interface/User Experience designer with talent and flair, an eye for detail, and a passion for the digital space. It’s a role we are excited about, and hope you are too!

Responsibilities:

• Generate crisp, innovative, and elegant design solutions for complex online social products
• Consistently generate and conceptualize new product ideas for the social space while upholding the strategic vision
• Lead rapid iterations and testing on a variety of ideas using wireframes and sketches to fully designed comps
• Clearly communicate experience design and graphic design rationale, have impeccable judgment, and be able to negotiate with product teams to get the right product built
• Work closely with the Art Director or General Manager to help lead the strategic vision of the project
• Enthusiastically partner with user research specialists to understand the goals of multiple user types and create designs that uphold their needs
• Partner with engineers to collaborate and iterate in fast-paced design-build cycles
• Work closely with product managers to ensure designs clearly support business objectives
• Help build a dynamic, creative environment in which you can design while also motivating and mentoring other team members
• Know how to establish, work with, and grow brand guidelines
• Work with a program manager to coordinate project scheduling and resource allocation and ensure solutions are delivered on time and exceed expectations
• Stay ahead of the curve in technological advances and UI practices and trends
• Make a point to understand how Zynga’s audience interacts with its games/services, and make use of this knowledge in the development of the best possible user experiences