User Experience Designer

As a designer at Valve, you'll be part of an extremely motivated, dedicated, and experienced team that's responsible for some of the most compelling consumer entertainment experiences ever created. You'll contribute significantly to Valve games and to Steam, Valve's social entertainment and e-commerce platform. You'll also use your design and problem-solving skills to create world-leading products for millions of users. In collaboration with a cross-disciplinary team of peers, you'll be helping to define the way users interact with our products - be it a game, an internal software tool, a social platform, or a web experience.

Duties:

• Translate business and product-level requirements into feasible, compelling entertainment and e-commerce experiences.
• Create conceptual wireframes, user flow diagrams, and low-fidelity prototypes for discussion and testing purposes.
• Iterate through detailed evaluation with peers from varying disciplines.
• Design high-fidelity mockups to solidify design direction and planning.
• Create working prototypes for usability and proof-of-concept testing.
• Conduct data-driven evaluation of your work through user playtesting.
• Produce shipping designs, finalizing interaction, layout, color, typography, images, and icons.
• Get your hands dirty in HTML, CSS, Flash, and other similar tools.
• Be a vigilant advocate for the user's experience.
• Take pride in and personal ownership of your work.
• Contribute directly to both the conceptual thinking behind and the physical creation of detailed, high-quality products.

Requirements:

• BS/BA/BFA degree (or equivalent) in graphic design, interaction design (or equivalent)
• At least six years of professional design experience in the software industry
• A thorough understanding of user interface design and usability principles
• An online portfolio of work