UX/UI Design Team Lead (World of Tanks)

Job Overview

Wargaming Prague is looking for a talented and experienced UX/UI Designer to take on the role of UX/UI Design Team Lead. You will be instrumental in both enhancing the team and delivering impactful features (gameplay and meta).

As part of a Prague UX/UI team, your focus will be on guiding UX/UI work for a significant product area and handle complex projects with overlapping organizational lines by contributing improvements to processes and techniques, evolving user experience, designing visual elements for both gameplay and meta features of the Universal stream of the Prague studio and introducing innovative approaches. You'll closely collaborate with Game Designers on their creative vision, with System Designers (Business Analysts) on corner cases and documentation, and will work closely with Developers on implementing your ideas.

As Team Lead, you’ll proactively set vision for your area, with a goal to inspire and motivate other UX/UI Designers. You will focus on managing the UX/UI Design discipline, defining the discipline development strategy based on team portrait and studio roadmap, assigning tasks, reviewing outputs, and setting development goals while providing ongoing feedback. Join the design team of World of Tanks in Prague that values creativity and collaboration and get an extraordinary opportunity to be a part of a well-known gaming company. You will learn how games are developed and participate in creating features for a product with a multimillion audience. Your contributions will shape the gameplay experience for our vast player base, which makes this role very important in our mission to deliver top-tier gaming experience

Reports to

Design Manager

What will you do?

• Represent design as a leader to the rest of the organization.
• Define and refine goals, standards and processes for UX/UI Design discipline.
• Create development plans for team members based on their skillset and the studio needs.
• Mentor team members, oversee task assignment, review work artifacts, and provide structured performance feedback.
• Advocate for your POV at all levels of the organization (e.g. to executives) and can leverage data, storytelling, and visual design to bring stakeholders along.
• Collaborate with the feature team and stakeholders while creating concepts and prototypes, searching for optimal solutions and approaches.
• Request UX research of your interfaces or conduct such research by yourself, participate in selecting good research participants.
• Communicate research findings with the feature team and other stakeholders, convert research findings into further improvements.
• Participate in cross-review of work of your colleagues-designers.
• Create final mock-ups, animation, and feature documentation for further development.
• Collaborate with development teams to consult them and to ensure the implementation of the feature aligns with the design.
• Carry out author’s control (design review).
• Participate in monitoring and evaluating the performance and effectiveness of implemented features, providing feedback and recommendations for enhancements or modifications.
• Stay updated with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UX/UI design and apply them to enhance the user experience.
• Guide the direction of the product and continually advocate for users and user-oriented design.

What are we looking for?

• 4+ years of documented experience in UX/UI design, supported by portfolio.
• Work that is thorough and complete with edge cases fully thought out as model of your accuracy and precision.
• Ability to work out patterns that can be utilized by others designers.
• Deep understanding of the industry interaction patterns and their nuances across platforms.
• You making decisions confidently without the system being fully documented, while also actively working on creating a documenting the system.
• Knowledge about latest content tooling, and advocating for products that would improve our process and boost consistency.
• Experience of conducting UX research, user interviewing, usability, and A/B testing.
• Ability to translate UX research insights into actionable design solutions
• Knowledge of user journey analysis tools and methodologies.
• Knowledge of the life cycle of the project/product.
• Strong communication skills with an empathetic approach. Ability to effectively use data and best practices in sharing design ideas and rationale to stakeholders at all levels and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Thinking outside the box and looking for optimal solutions in non-trivial cases.
• Proactivity and self-motivation, with a strong ability to take initiative, drive projects, and bring new ideas to the table.
• Strong English skills: writing, speaking, and presenting.
• Detail-oriented mindset with a focus on accuracy and quality.
• Strong self-organization and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multitask effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Solid experience in designing for responsive web.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other UI development tools.
• Strong learning skills.
• System thinking.

What additional skills will help you stand out?

• Team Lead experience will be a huge advantage.
•  Interest or experience in game development domain.
• Knowledge and experience in collaborating with related disciplines such as Game Design, System Design (Business Analysis), and Frontend Development.
• Knowledge of the World of Tanks domain.

Work mode

• Hybrid (3 days of work from the office) 

Benefits

Benefits and perks are tailored to the local market and culture. Our benefits in Prague include:

• 5 weeks of Annual Leave per calendar year
• Additional paid time off 
• Sick Leave Compensation, Maternity & Paternity Leave Benefits  
• Career development and education opportunities within the company
• Meal card contribution
• Public transportation allowance
• Premium private healthcare
• Mental well-being program (iFeel)
• Multisport Employee discounts
• Personal Gaming Account 
• Coffee, fruits, and snacks in the office
• Company events
• Seniority Awards  
• Referral program - You can recommend the best talents to the company and receive a reward  

Please submit your CV in English to ensure smooth processing and review.

About Wargaming 

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Operating since 1998, Wargaming has become one of the leaders in the gaming industry with 15 offices worldwide, including studios in Chicago, Prague, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Vilnius. Our diverse and multicultural team works together to deliver a top-class experience to millions of players who enjoy Wargaming's titles across all major gaming platforms. Our flagship products include free-to-play hits World of Tanks, World of Warships and World of Tanks Blitz.

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