UI/UX Designer

Now part of Light & Wonder, Grover Gaming brings a legacy of innovation, integrity, and game design excellence to our growing team.Known for its award-winning electronic gaming experiences and vibrant culture, Grover Gaming has built a reputation as a top workplace and a trusted name in the industry. Together, we're expanding our impact and shaping the future of charitable gaming with even greater creativity, purpose, and reach. This is more than a job-it's a chance to make a lasting impact, grow your career, and work with a team that values collaboration, creativity, and technical excellence.

Job Summary:

Join our team as a UI/UX Designer to help productize and elevate our game development suite for partner studios. Focused on tooling and editor interfaces, you will transform functional development tools into world-class experiences that will make Unity jealous of your output. You'll design intuitive workflows, editors, and wizards that empower game creators, streamline content creation, and set new standards for usability and efficiency in game development environments.

Essential Job Functions:

• Design and optimize user interfaces for game development tools, editors, and content creation workflows.

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate functional requirements into intuitive, efficient, and delightful user experiences.

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and flow charts for tool interfaces, game editors, and workflow wizards.

• Advocate for user-centric design solutions that balance business goals and developer needs.

• Conduct user research, usability testing, and stakeholder interviews to inform design decisions.

• Iterate on UI/UX based on feedback from partner studios, internal teams, and end users.

• Develop and maintain design systems and documentation for development tools.

• Ensure accessibility, usability, and consistency across all tool interfaces.

• Present design concepts and rationale to cross-functional teams and leadership.

• Stay current with trends in developer tooling, game engines, and content creation platforms.

Our studio is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. We're offering a lump sum payment to assist with relocation for out of states candidates!

This role requires full-time on-site presence, with plans to move to a hybrid structure as the studio matures.

Training and/or Experience

• 5+ years of experience in UI/UX design, with a focus on tooling, editors, or workflow products.

• Experience designing interfaces for game development environments, creative tools, or similar platforms.

• Prior gaming industry experience is preferred but not required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Innovative yet user centric design abilities.

• Strong portfolio showcasing design for development tools, editors, or workflow products.

• Expertise in usability, accessibility, and interaction design principles.

• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.).

• Experience with user research, personas, scenarios, and usability testing.

• Ability to create wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design specifications.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.

• Familiarity with game engines (Unity, Unreal) and implementation of UI assets is a plus.

• Understanding of information architecture and design systems for complex tools.

• Collaborative mindset and ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent professional experience.

Physical Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions:

• The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses.As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.

In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

L&W is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you'd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: EEOC Poster

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Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you'd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.