Ux/Ui Designer, Games & Casino (Remote)

Department: Product

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Vancouver

Description

Reporting to: Senior Manager, Product Design

Working closely with: Product/Games/Creative

Seniority: Open

TL/DR:

Rivalry has been pushing the boundaries of online gambling entertainment, and we've been crushing it. We're looking beyond the poker tables and slot machines, to create truly unique social gaming experiences that appeal to a core gaming audience.

As a designer, you will be responsible for working directly with our Games team to create UIs that are equally entertaining and easy to use. In addition to this, you will be working with the web and mobile team to expand our unique Casino.exe gaming platform

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has a bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Game Design, UX Design or similar field.
• Has an extreme attention to detail, and isn't happy until their design is pixel perfect.
• Experience designing UI for games.
• Is naturally creative, artistic and yearns to inject fun and surprise into their designs.
• Has 4+ Years of experience (minimum) as a UX design, UI design, Product Design or whatever the kids are calling it these days.
• Is super organized and cares deeply for best practices.
• Has a strong understanding of UX principles, UI design, information architecture and visual communication.
• Has a passion for games and entertainment.

Skills to bring the thrills:

• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows or quick animations.
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers.
• Proficiency Figma or other rapid prototyping tools (Sketch, Adobe CS, etc).
• UI motion and animation.
• Able to integrate UI elements directly into the game engine as prefabs or equivalent.
• Can design for responsive web and mobile apps.
• Create wireframes, prototypes and interactive mockups.

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with game engines.

Our Stats

• Every Rivalry employee gets a monthly "hobby" stipend, which includes Video Games!
• Work with an extremely talented team who share a love for video games and esports on truly innovative projects; we're not your typical online sports betting site.
• Transparent, candid, effective, driven colleagues.
• Paid Vacation and Holidays.
• Career and personal growth prioritized by management.
• Work from almost anywhere in the world.
• A chance to work in one of the most exciting and rapidly growing industries
• Benefits plan in Canada, Benefits Stipend outside of Canada.
• We offer a competitive salary and total rewards package including stock options (we believe it's important for our people to own a piece of the company and share in our success).
• See your performance in real time, be part of a supportive team with a focus on training, coaching and continual improvement, and benefit from yearly salary reviews.