Senior UI/UX Designer for Backgammon.com

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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Shipping next: User registration, P2P gameplay, social features, ranked play

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.

Backgammon.com asks respectfully to only apply through the application form and not email/apply to them directly. Recruiters and Agencies please do not contact Backgammon.com directly.