Senior Game UX/UI Designer - remote
Title: Senior Game UX/UI Designer
Location: New York, New York
Job Description:
ABOUT THE ROLE
Peloton Game Studio is looking for a Senior UX / UI designer. After the success of our first game Lanebreak (a music game for Peloton indoor bikes and treadmills) we’re now deep into development of a totally different style of game, which we think cyclists and runners in particular will love.
Your UX brain and UI design chops will help us elevate the craft of our fitness games. Our games engage, empower, and immerse players pursuing their own fitness and training goals. As such, this UX first role requires a blend of game and product design thinking. It’s a wonderful opportunity to swing for the fences and make a real impact.
Our team is hybrid and remote. Around half of us work hybrid from Peloton HQ in NYC, and half fully remote (mostly in the USA). Collaboration is paramount within our company culture. The ideal candidate will relish the opportunity to problem solve and conceptualize alongside the team, share ongoing work, and actively seek feedback. Join us making the world a healthier place through fitness gaming!
YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON
- Convert requirements &vision into solid UX strategies and designs
- Absorb and improve our current UX design principles and UI patterns
- Take complex problems and convert them into simple solutions, making complexity easier to understand for the user. We’re up against their body and brain telling them not to work out and don’t want any part of the UX to make it harder!
- Advocate for user needs in all design discussions, closely partnering with user research &product
- Drive forward UX design processes such as personas, journey mapping, information architecture, wireframes, interaction design, and prototyping
- Research best-in-class products and keep your finger on the pulse of fitness, sports, and gaming
- Capture and clearly document all states, edge-cases, and path logic for engineering teams
- Collaborate effectively with partners across engineering, design, game design, art, content, user research, audio, product, production/TPM, and QA
- Regularly create and present Figma wireframes and prototypes to team leads and other stakeholders, revising, testing, and iterating solutions to ensure the highest quality results
- Maintain a deep investment in ensuring our players have the best possible experience while achieving their fitness goals
YOU BRING TO PELOTON
- 5+ years of professional UX/UI design experience (inc 3+ years on video games / immersive experiences)
- Shipped 2+ games/mobile apps as a professional UX/UI Designer (excluding academic projects)
- Must have a UX focused portfolio showing high quality UX/UI design thinking and process;we’re particularly interested in examples that showcase your ability to simplify complexity
- Experience designing for various screen sizes and platforms
- Proven proficiency with Figma to create wireframes and prototypes
- Ability to conceptualize multi-state, multi-path interaction systems
- Familiarity with agile software development on a cross-discipline game development team
- Bonus: domain expertise in cycling and/or running
- Bonus: alternative control input experience (e.g. exercise equipment, AR/VR)
- Bonus: Unity / game engine UI prototyping and/or implementation experience
- Bonus: experience incorporating motion/animation into UI and interaction design
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The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position based at our New York City headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors including individual performance, business objectives, and if the location for the job changes. Our base salary is just one component of Peloton’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits.
As an organization, one of our top priorities is to maintain the health and wellbeing for our employees and their family. To achieve this goal, we offer robust and comprehensive benefits including:
–Medical, dental and vision insurance
–Generous paid time off policy
–Short-term and long-term disability
–Access to mental health services
–401k, tuition reimbursement and student loan paydown plans
–Employee Stock Purchase Plan
–Fertility and adoption support and up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave
–Child care and family care discounts
–Free access to Peloton Digital App and apparel and product discounts
–Commuter benefits and Citi Bike Discount
–Pet insurance and so much more!
Base Salary Range
$123,280—$200,400 USD
ABOUT PELOTON:
Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON), provides Members with expert instruction, and world class content to create impactful and entertaining workout experiences for anyone, anywhere and at any stage in their fitness journey. At home, outdoors, traveling, or at the gym, Peloton brings together immersive classes, cutting-edge technology and hardware, and the Peloton App with multiple tiers to personalize the Peloton experience [with or without equipment]. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has millions of Members across the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Austria. For more information, visit www.onepeloton.com.
At Peloton, we motivate the world to live better. “Together We Go Far”means that we are greater than the sum of our parts, stronger collectively when each one of us is at our best. By combining hardware, software, content, retail, apparel, manufacturing, Member support, and so much more, we deliver an exhilarating fitness experience that unlocks our members’greatness. Join our team to unlock yours.
Peloton is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Peloton, where all team members, applicants, and other covered persons are considered on the basis of their personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, unemployment status, familial status, domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking victim status, caregiver status, or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable law. This policy of equal employment opportunity applies to all practices and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. If you would like to request any accommodations from application through to interview, please email: applicantaccommodations@onepeloton.com