Lead Product Designer

Overview

Blitz eagerly seeks a visionary Lead Product Designer passionate about platform development, games, and data visualization. Reporting to the SVP of Product, your mission will be to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across product development, design, and engineering. As our ideal candidate, you will transform complex data into user-friendly visuals, enhancing platform experiences and playing a pivotal role in shaping Blitz as the ultimate gaming destination. This position requires you to be on-site Monday through Thursday in our Los Angeles office with optional WFH on Fridays.

What You'll Do

• Apply holistic product design processes and frameworks to create engaging experiences for our customers and contribute to successful metrics for business growth 
• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable product solutions
• Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of the Blitz for our FPS titles
• Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for our supported platforms
• Ability to discern product-design phase of a feature, and conduct or request user research, and create appropriate level design artifacts or for testing and user feedback
• Work within and contribute to evolving our design system
• Create visually balanced and intuitive interfaces that show an excellent grasp of readability, hierarchy, platform, and player behavior patterns
• Proactively solicit feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality, while also taking on mentorship
• Present design work to key stakeholders to achieve buy-in and ensure alignment with a coherent and quality User Experience vision
• Work with developers directly to conduct design hand-off and ensure pixel perfection from mockups to production
• Work with Product Managers to plan designs cycles for features and MLP releases

What It Takes To Be Successful

• 6+ years experience in building and shipping applications or software at the level of whole features/products that encompass an end-to-end experience
• Interaction Design skills defining how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this innovation will scale. 
• Experience using prototyping skills to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
• Strategy articulation and experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts
• Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies for software development
• Excellent attention to detail

Nice To Have

• Experience working in gaming or a passion for gaming and esports
• Experience shipping applications across desktop apps, web, and/or mobile platforms
• Able to showcase your end-to-end design process across multiple projects, that include interaction and visual design artifacts, multiple iterations, and high-fidelity prototypes
• Experience connecting your work with other cross-product initiatives within the company to drive collaboration
• Examples of leadership in non-product dimensions that have made a team stronger and positively impacted the work environment

What We Offer

• An organization focused on growth and shared success
• Highly engaged leadership team with expert knowledge of gaming
• Excellent reputation with players, studios, and publishers in the industry
• Opportunities to learn and grow with the company
• A performance culture focused on career development and success

Pay and Benefits

• Annual salary range: $180-200k USD + bonus
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 100% employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision plan
• 401k matching
• Company-wide team building events

Salary for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.