Game UI/UX Designer at CodeCombat at CodeCombat

Help build amazing new game-based learning experiences for students around the world! We’re looking for a Game UI/UX Designer to help us build beautiful, intuitive game user interfaces, with a focus on our projects on the Roblox platform like CodeCombat Worlds.

If you have significant game UI/UX experience and are excited about realizing the potential of education through game-based learning, then we want to hear from you!

This is a 100% remote, part-time contract role with flexible hours. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply from around the world.

What You’ll Do

• Use your expertise and knowledge of typography, iconography, color, and space to design highly polished, usable user interfaces, mostly on the Roblox platform
  
• Establish and maintain user interface style guides, promoting consistency and clarity of UI across our games
  
• Work closely alongside experienced engineering, game design, and learning design teams
  
• Creatively propose UI and UX designs to meet the needs of a wide range of players and devices (mobile and desktop)
  
• Translate designs into low-fidelity wireframes and high-fidelity mockups
  
• Collaborate with developers to ensure design consistency
  
• Field occasional in-game UI designs for our 2D web game platforms that differ in look and feel (CodeCombat & Ozaria)
  

Who You Are

• Deep gaming-specific UI/UX design experience, with experience delivering wireframes, mockups, and polished final assets
  
• Significant Roblox design experience
  
• Highly proficient in Figma
  
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to take initiative to drive a large UI/UX overhaul
  
• Knowledge and practice of user-centered design principles
  
• Strong communication skills, a can-do attitude, and empathy
  
• Success collaborating with engineering and game design on long-term projects
  
• Ability to translate game designs and features into cohesive UX flows
  
• Responsible, motivated, and flexible
  

Bonus Points (nice to have, but not required)

• Illustration skills
  
• Front-end web design skills
  
• Passion for making education more engaging through game-based learning, or experience working on an educational game
  
• Startup or small team experience
  
• Coding experience
  

Who We Are

CodeCombat is building a new way for K-12 students and at-home learners to learn how to code, using real programming languages to explore adventure games. Students learn how to write functions to control their hero avatars, implement puzzle-solving strategies, and code their own games. We are committed to researching, experimenting, and iterating new ways to marry education with fun for students worldwide.

We are a small, determined, and tight-knit startup dedicated to providing an enjoyable, meaningful place to work. Team members pursue a healthy work/life balance with flexible working hours. All of our team members work remotely from all around the world, with concentrations in San Francisco and Beijing.