Twitch Interactive, Inc. - D48
Principal UX Designer
Twitch Interactive, Inc. - D48, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site
About Us Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.
We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedInandX, and discover the projects we’re solving on ourBlog. Be sure to explore ourInterviewing Guideto learn how to ace our interview process.
About the Role The Community UX team is responsible for the Twitch viewer and streamer experience across the product ecosystem building and maintaining a cross-platform live streaming service that supports the growth and development of streamer based communities. We are looking to add a Principal UX Designer, Personalization to our team. Working closely with our discovery, identity, and recommendations teams, this designer will be responsible for the right users getting the right content at the right time - from onboarding to becoming an engaged member of the Twitch community. A Principal designer is expected to lead design at a program level, work with multiple senior XFN partners across orgs, represent work to executive leadership, guide and mentor junior designers and will report directly to a Director of Design. Designers at Twitch are involved in development from project conception all the way through execution and iteration. If you are a champion for designing for humans and creating playful and caring experiences for communities, you will flourish on this team.
You can work from Twitch’s headquarters in San Francisco, CA; or from one of our US based hub locations in Seattle, WA; Irvine, CA; Los Angeles, CA or New York City, NY.
You Will
Lead design strategy for content personalization and user engagement initiatives
Create designs and prototypes for presentation to execs and peers, and handoff to engineering partners
Collaborate with a cross functional development team of product managers, ML engineers, engineers, and designers, and content programming teams
Work with our UX Research and Data Science teams to combine qualitative and quantitative information to develop hypotheses about customer motivations and use that to improve your designs
Learn from streamers and viewers about the ways they use our services and and imagine the future of the service
Help shape Twitch's design future by evolving our design systems and mentoring designers across the organization
Perks
Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
401(k)
Maternity & Parental Leave
Flexible PTO
Amazon Employee Discount
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution
7+ years of professional experience in user experience design
Portfolio demonstrating experience with content personalization and discovery features (e.g. user identity / profiles, recommendations, feeds, search & browse)
Experience creating interactive prototypes for mobile platforms
Track record of successful collaboration with cross-functional teams
Ability to clearly communicate complex concepts through storytelling and narrative techniques
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in video content, social media, or streaming platforms
Experience as a content creator
Workshop facilitation experience
Formal education in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field
Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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About Us Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.
We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedInandX, and discover the projects we’re solving on ourBlog. Be sure to explore ourInterviewing Guideto learn how to ace our interview process.
About the Role The Community UX team is responsible for the Twitch viewer and streamer experience across the product ecosystem building and maintaining a cross-platform live streaming service that supports the growth and development of streamer based communities. We are looking to add a Principal UX Designer, Personalization to our team. Working closely with our discovery, identity, and recommendations teams, this designer will be responsible for the right users getting the right content at the right time - from onboarding to becoming an engaged member of the Twitch community. A Principal designer is expected to lead design at a program level, work with multiple senior XFN partners across orgs, represent work to executive leadership, guide and mentor junior designers and will report directly to a Director of Design. Designers at Twitch are involved in development from project conception all the way through execution and iteration. If you are a champion for designing for humans and creating playful and caring experiences for communities, you will flourish on this team.
You can work from Twitch’s headquarters in San Francisco, CA; or from one of our US based hub locations in Seattle, WA; Irvine, CA; Los Angeles, CA or New York City, NY.
You Will
Lead design strategy for content personalization and user engagement initiatives
Create designs and prototypes for presentation to execs and peers, and handoff to engineering partners
Collaborate with a cross functional development team of product managers, ML engineers, engineers, and designers, and content programming teams
Work with our UX Research and Data Science teams to combine qualitative and quantitative information to develop hypotheses about customer motivations and use that to improve your designs
Learn from streamers and viewers about the ways they use our services and and imagine the future of the service
Help shape Twitch's design future by evolving our design systems and mentoring designers across the organization
Perks
Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
401(k)
Maternity & Parental Leave
Flexible PTO
Amazon Employee Discount
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution
7+ years of professional experience in user experience design
Portfolio demonstrating experience with content personalization and discovery features (e.g. user identity / profiles, recommendations, feeds, search & browse)
Experience creating interactive prototypes for mobile platforms
Track record of successful collaboration with cross-functional teams
Ability to clearly communicate complex concepts through storytelling and narrative techniques
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in video content, social media, or streaming platforms
Experience as a content creator
Workshop facilitation experience
Formal education in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field
Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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