Marathon UI/UX Director

Responsibilities

• Own, driving, and communicating the UI/UX vision for Marathon based on creative and production priorities.
• Own Marathon UI/UX quality, design craft excellence, and consistency while holding UI/UX teams accountable to achieving vision and goals.
• Prioritizing the UI/UX backlog, breaking down UI/UX problems for UI/UX Leads to own, and communicating status with other leaders.
• Build alignment in the Director leadership group of UI/UX goals, constraints, and executions.
• Work with Executive Producer to make sure teams are staffed appropriately for size and shape of goals, including strategy for using external development.
• Develop and champion best practices of UI/UX process.
• Collaborating on creative problem solving for product wide problems spaces beyond UI/UX.
• Works with Executive Producer and Engineering Director on goals and needs of UI Technical Design, Visual Design, UI/UX tools and workflows.

Required Skills

• Experience as a UI/UX Director developing and implementing UI/UX vision for large-scale, multiplatform, live-service competitive FPS games.
• Ability to creatively align and collaborate with other director level discipline leaders to help define and break down problem spaces.
• Leading UI/UX teams in developing philosophy, process, capabilities, and execution.
• Deep Experience with philosophy, process, design, documentation, and workflows of UI/UX systems.
• Leading UI/UX teams to break down ambiguous problems spaces to clear goals, strategies, and tactics with testable hypothesis and tracking metrics.
• Defining what successful UI/UX collaboration and integration looks like with other disciplines including User Research.
• Managing UI/UX discipline including defining UI/UX roles, performance expectations, leading the hiring process, and building a highly functioning discipline.
• Extensive demonstrated ability to work independently, driving tasks to completion with efficiency and reliability.
• Proactive in making design decisions and solving problems with a focus on the broader impact to the overall project.
• Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams.