Hybrid Lead UI/UX Designer

at Virtuos

• Job title: Lead UI/UX Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cergy, France

About the role

• Lead UX/UI Designer at Virtuos coordinating design and user experience for AAA game production. Collaborate with stakeholders ensuring intuitive and accessible interfaces across projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and coordinate the UX/UI team, ensuring clarity in roles, expectations, and day-to-day support.
• Define and maintain the UX/UI production pipeline, including workflows related to localization, certification (certs), and implementation.
• Establish Sprint-by-Sprint priorities for the UI team in collaboration with producers and directors.
• Review and validate all UX/UI deliverables, ensuring consistency, readability, visual polish, and proper integration into the engine.
• Create and maintain UX guidelines, UI style guides, visual identity documentation, and best-practice references for cross-disciplinary teams.
• Oversee visual communication aspects such as graphic design, motion design, and typography across UI features.
• Participate in Sprint Planning and coordinate UX/UI needs and dependencies across Design, Art, Engineering, and Localization.
• Write and follow up on Conditions of Satisfaction (CoS) for UX/UI tasks and ensure backlog alignment.
• Act as a key UX/UI point of reference for internal teams and partner studios, and serve as a secondary PoC for client-side stakeholders.
• Ensure UI assets and flows are compatible with localization constraints and platform certification requirements.
• Prepare and deliver clear UX/UI reports, documentation, and presentations for Directors, Producers, and external partners.
• Support the improvement of UX/UI tools, workflows, and visual communication practices across the project.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in the game industry as a UX or UI Designer.
• At least one shipped AAA title as UI or UX Designer.
• Previous team leadership or management experience.
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Office Suite.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; English required.
• Strong attention to user needs and team well-being.
• Ability to anticipate UX/UI requirements based on planned features and gameplay constraints.
• Keen eye for detail, readability, and visual aesthetics.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-driven, organized, and autonomous.
• Broad creative culture (games, film, art, design, technology, etc.).
• Proactive awareness of emerging tools, trends, and visual communication practices.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical healthcare provided for all staff
• Remote work is possible
• Relocation support
• Career and international mobility opportunities with Virtuos Internal Mobility Program