Principal UX Designer

at  Epic Games

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

WHAT WE DO

We design customer and user-focused experiences that are fresh and innovative while problem-solving by anticipating user behavior and hurdles. We approach the most complex of problems and address them with simple, intuitive, and useful solutions.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Epic Games is looking for a talented, experienced Principal UX Designer to help us design the future of Fortnite’s player experience and UI. In this position, you will collaborate with other Principals and Directors to craft a new forward-facing design vision. You will work closely with UX researchers to establish a dialog with players and help us understand what they want from Fortnite’s UI. You will lead efforts to build and standardize a set of design pillars, thematics, and principles that can guide our UX/UI team’s future-facing efforts. You will lead the effort to define the quality bar for what great UX is and work to empower and mentor other UX designers within our team to meet that bar.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Work with Game Designers to translate goals of future-facing Fortnite efforts into compelling player-facing experiences
• Establish design pillars, thematics, and principles for Fortnite’s future-facing UI
• Collaborate with Visual Designers and UX Research to level up the UX & UI of Fortnite
• Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and documentation that clearly convey ideas
• Produce UX design work such as competitive analysis, information architecture, content strategy, user stories, journey mapping, and accessibility standards
• Present and pitch designs to Product Managers, Developers, and Stakeholders
• Lead efforts to resolve design discrepancies across Fortnite