Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is the world’s foremost entertainment company, seeking a thoughtful and collaborative Principal UX Designer to support their gaming division. The role involves advocating for user experience improvements, optimizing player flow, and collaborating with development partners to elevate the quality of games.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for user experience improvements with data-informed vision and design rationale
• Resolve experiential friction and optimize player flow by leading discovery, enforcing best practices, and rapid iteration
• Support high-level design goals with intuitive UX flows for mechanics and game features
• Work with development partners to provide feedback, resources, and guidance across UX disciplines
• Collaborate with Consumer Insights partners to establish platform-level guidance
• Build wireframes, interactive prototypes, and presentations as needed for proof of concept and implementation
• Review material across a broad spectrum of genres and diverse interests to give clear and actionable direction
• Capture, communicate, and align experiential priorities, risks, and opportunities to help guide our games to player-experience first execution
• Work with project leadership to establish best quality practices and champion user-centric design

Skills

• 10+ years experience developing games in a UX / XD leadership role
• Experience working with distributed or external teams
• Comprehensive experience design knowledge and ability to execute across multiple genres and form factors
• Ability to articulate critical and meaningful feedback to influence direction without relying on positional authority
• A record of leading successful cross-disciplinary efforts in the UX / XD domain
• Development and execution of internal creative tools and processes
• Solid skills in standardized prototyping and design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Identify and distinguish opportunities for innovation
• A proven track record of executing with excellence in user experience
• A history of strong relationships with recognition as a valued partner in meeting company objectives
• An advocate for the player, prioritizing low-friction and approachable interface and flow
• Comfortable working with frequent context switching and bringing clarity to ambiguity
• Excel in a fast-paced, high-volume, high-agency environment
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and committed to embodying Netflix's culture of high performance, curiosity, freedom, and responsibility
• Supporting skills in visual and UI design a plus

Benefits

• Health Plans
• Mental Health support
• A 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
• Stock Option Program
• Disability Programs
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Family-forming benefits
• Life and Serious Injury Benefits
• Paid leave of absence programs
• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off
• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off

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