Senior Game UX/UI Designer

About Backgammon.com

We're building the modern home for backgammon - the definitive platform for a billion dollar market currently fragmented across dozens of mediocre apps. Small, experienced team creating a trusted, beautiful product for 2M+ aspiring players.

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The Role

Own UI/UX design end-to-end for our web and mobile platforms. You'll take product specs and deliver high-quality, production-ready designs - autonomous execution, not hand-holding.

Responsibilities:

• Design player progression, education, social, and competitive features

• Build and evolve our design system as the product scales

• Collaborate with product and engineering (weekly syncs, daily async)

• Deliver high-polish mocks that engineers can asynchronously implement

• Guide implementation during development

• Iterate based on analytics and user feedback

Our design principles:

• "Lowest friction" UX - minimize clicks and cognitive load

• Calm, sophisticated aesthetic (not casino/flashy)

• Trust through clarity - predictable systems, no dark patterns

• Accessible for casuals, deep for competitive players

What We're Looking For

Must-haves:

• Strong UI/UX craft - high-polish execution with minimal revision needed

• Game UI intuition - designed or deeply studied multiplayer/competitive/social game UIs

• Mobile-first thinking - touch, responsive, one-handed use (non-negotiable fluency)

• Autonomous problem-solver - work from specs/goals without hand-holding

• Design systems expertise - reusable components, scalable patterns

• Collaborative but independent - tight feedback loops, ships on time

Strong preferences:

• Professional game UI/UX experience (mobile strongly preferred)

• Social features design (friends, chat, clubs, tournaments)

• Analytics fluency (GA4, behavior-driven iteration)

• Board/card/strategy game background

• Prototyping skills (Figma, Framer)

What Won't Work

• Needing extensive art direction or hand-holding

• Casino/gambling aesthetic sensibility (we're calm and sophisticated, not flashy)

• Designing for your portfolio instead of for users

• Requiring formal research processes before every decision

• Needing large teams or heavy process

Benefits

• 100% remote work

• Competitive salary

• Healthcare

• 401K Match

• Unlimited paid time off

• Fun, collaborative culture

Why join us?

• Small team, which will increase in size as we scale operations.

• Fully remote, and largely asynchronous. We need a self-directed developer comfortable with autonomy, high standards for code quality, and end-to-end ownership.

• Weekly synchronous meetings with the full product, development, and design teams, with additional synchronous meetings as necessary.

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