Senior UX Designer

Ubisoft • Montreal, QC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior UX Designer at Ubi Montreal, you will help shape the player experience for an ambitious large-scale live-service multiplayer first-person shooter. Working within a small, autonomous team, you will bridge the gap between the game vision and player needs, creating intuitive, scalable, and cohesive experiences across every stage of the player journey.

Requirements

• Strong user-centered design mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills within multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to transform individual problems into reusable standards and systems.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of: Motivation and learning strategies; Prototyping; Defining and tracking success metrics; Accessibility and platform compliance; Design systems.
• Advanced knowledge of: Information architecture; Signals and feedback systems; Interaction design; Wireframing and screen layout design.
• Strong understanding of: Multiplayer first-person shooter games; Open-world games; GaaS products and monetization systems.
• Proficiency with: Figma (pixel-perfect design, component properties, auto-layout, variables, and AI workflows); Confluence for creating and maintaining clear, scalable documentation; Miro for building and facilitating multidisciplinary alignment spaces; Working directly within a game editor.
• Minimum of 5 years of UX experience in the video game industry.

Nice To Haves

• Proactive, autonomous, and versatile team player
• Curious mindset with a passion for continuous improvement
• Agile and resilient in a fast-changing environment
• Strong sense of ownership, attention to detail, and commitment to quality
• Passion for game and product design
• Degree in UX Design, Interaction Design, Cognitive Psychology, or a related field
• Experience implementing user interfaces
• Strong visual design or motion design sensibilities
• Experience with data analysis

Responsibilities

• Prepare design work through rigorous discovery research and clear problem definition.
• Design sustainable and scalable UX solutions, including user interfaces, flows, signals, feedback systems, and interactions.
• Produce design artifacts such as sketches, wireframes, user flows, documentation, and prototypes at the appropriate level of fidelity.
• Present, advocate for, and champion UX solutions with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Review solution implementation in collaboration with the user research team.
• Iterate on solutions and adjust implementation based on player research findings and feedback.
• Collaborate closely with game design, level design, art, programming, and other disciplines while facilitating alignment when needed.
• Build, maintain, and promote UX standards and design systems.
• Advocate for UX best practices, accessibility, and platform compliance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree