Niantic Labs, creator of hit games including Pokémon GO, Monster Hunter Now, and Pikmin Bloom is seeking a Senior Systems & Economy Designer to help shape the future of Monster Hunter Now by designing high quality game experiences that delight and engage our avid players. We’re a fast paced, multi-disciplinary team of game makers, software developers and creative professionals based in Tokyo, San Francisco, and Seattle. You will be responsible for running the game economy and ensuring new features and game events deliver a well balanced and integrated game loop that improves both KPIs and player experience; living up to the bold vision for Monster Hunter Now, helping merge the virtual with the real world and inspiring people to explore together!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Production, Data, and Feature Designers to drive systems design across the feature roadmap and live ops calendar.
• Thoughtfully run the game economy, balancing resource sources, sinks, and progression across the entire player lifecycle.
• Plan out the long term progression strategy for the game, integrating new progression systems, content releases, and balancing for both mature and early game players.
• Partner with Product, Live Ops and Data to find high impact optimization opportunities across the live game experience.
• Take accountability for driving KPI impact via ownership of key gameplay metrics directly tied to economy design.
• Promote understanding of key game systems from market comps to influence roadmap and design decisions, driving more effective decision making.
• Collaborate with Live Ops leadership to ensure every event is contemplated and accretive to the overall game economy.
• Collaborate with Feature Designers to ensure every feature release is deeply integrated and accretive to the core progression loops.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in key meetings.
• Act as a driver of culture on the team, fostering learning, collaboration, player centricity, and excellence with an outcome oriented approach.
• Required in-office 3 days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in free to play game systems and economy design.
• Track record of leading game economies in successful free to play mobile games post-launch.
• Experience positively impacting KPIs via systems design for new game features.
• Deep understanding of game economy and live operations in midcore games.
• Expertise with analyzing and interpreting data to make data informed decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in both English and Japanese.
• Ability to mentor, and lead by example to develop team members.
• Flexibility in a demanding team environment.
• Passion for video games; an avid gamer with a proven understanding of mobile games.
• Have worked on a high profile game with a significant amount of daily active users.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.
• Belief in the value of bringing people together through games to explore in the real world.
• Based in Japan.

Plus If...

• Deep understanding and/or fandom of the Monster Hunter franchise
• Familiarity as a player with Monster Hunter Now, Pikmin Bloom, and/or Pokemon Go
• Experience, interest, and excitement around AR games or features
• Experience in other related fields such as UX Design, Engineering, Data, Production or Product

UX Designer - New Geolocation-Based Mobile Game / UXデザイナー - 新位置情報モバイルゲーム

Niantic’s UX Design team delivers innovative mobile experiences that inspire "exploration, exercise, and connection" for players around the world. In this position, you will tackle unique design challenges set in the real world, always placing the player’s perspective at the center of your UX design.

For your assigned game title, you will drive the UX design process from concept to completion. You will handle a broad scope of work—including UX flows, wireframes, and UI design—to shape intuitive and user-friendly experiences. Additionally, a crucial part of this role involves validating ideas using mockups and prototypes to clearly visualize and refine design concepts.

In development, you will collaborate closely with a diverse group of experts—including Engineers, Product Managers, User Researchers, and Artists—to co-create unique Niantic experiences that blend the real and digital worlds. You will actively participate in brainstorming and new feature planning, contributing directly to the product's direction.

Additionally, you will communicate your design intent visually to internal and external stakeholders using wireframes and specifications. Your goal is to foster a shared understanding while building out the design.

If the prospect of exploring the future of real-world interactive experiences that make a positive experience in people's lives sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Lead UX design efforts from concept to implementation for one or more player facing experiences
• Develop mockups, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design documentation to clearly describe interaction flows and design concepts.
• Clearly communicate UX designs to all stakeholders.
• Actively participate in team rituals to conceptualize and brainstorm new features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members and partners, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
• Required in-office 3 days on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in UX/UI design.
• A portfolio demonstrating interaction design for mobile applications.
• Proficiency in designing effective user flows and wireframes.
• Strong visual design skills with professional experience using design tools such as Figma.
• Ability to create sketches and designs for design validation (prototyping).
• Experience in mobile application or game development.
• Fluent in Japanese and/or English, with the ability to smoothly communicate verbally and in writing.

業務内容

NianticのUXデザインチームは、世界中のプレイヤーに「発見・エクササイズ・つながり」をもたらす革新的なモバイル体験を提供しています。本ポジションでは、リアルワールドを舞台としたユニークなデザインの課題に取り組み、常にプレイヤー視点を中心に据えてUXを設計していただきます。

担当となるゲームタイトルでは、コンセプト立案からUXデザインを推進します。UXフロー、ワイヤーフレーム、UIデザインなど幅広い領域を担当し、直感的で使いやすい体験を形にしていきます。また、モックアップやプロトタイプを活用してアイデアを検証し、デザインコンセプトを明確に具体化することも重要な役割です。

開発では、エンジニア、プロダクトマネージャー、ユーザーリサーチャー、アーティストなど、多様な専門メンバーと密接に協力し、リアルとデジタルが融合したNianticならではの体験を共に作り上げます。新機能の企画やブレインストーミングにも積極的に参加し、プロダクトの方向性づくりにも貢献します。

加えて、社内外のステークホルダーには、ワイヤーフレームや仕様書を用いてデザイン意図を視覚的に分かりやすく説明し、共通理解を形成しながらデザインを構築していきます。

週３（火、水、木）での出社が必須となります。

必須条件

• 3年以上のUX/UIデザイン実務経験
• モバイルアプリのインタラクションデザインを含むポートフォリオをお持ちの方
• ユーザーフローやワイヤーフレームを適切に設計できる方
• ビジュアルデザインに強みがあり、Figmaなどデザインツールを用いたデザイン実務経験がある方
• デザイン検証のためのスケッチやデザインを制作できる方
• モバイルアプリまたはゲームの開発経験のある方 
• 日本語又は英語での文書作成・口頭コミュニケーションがスムーズに行える方

※英語でこれらのことができればなお歓迎します

• 変化の早い環境に柔軟に適応し、実用的な課題解決ができる方
• 多職種との協働経験があり、対面・オンライン問わず円滑なコミュニケーションができる方

Method is a global design and engineering consultancy founded in 1999. We believe that innovation should be meaningful, beautiful and human. We craft practical, powerful digital experiences that improve lives and transform businesses. Our teams [based in Japan, Bengaluru, New York, Charlotte, Atlanta, London, and remote] work with a wide range of organizations in many industries, including Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Automotive, Aviation, and Professional Services. This is a Tokyo-based position. 

Method is part of GlobalLogic, a digital product engineering company. GlobalLogic integrates experience design and complex engineering to help our clients imagine what’s possible and accelerate their transition into tomorrow’s digital businesses. GlobalLogic is a Hitachi Group Company, and there is extensive collaboration between all group companies. 

As a Senior Product Designer, you will work closely with Method clients and team members – Product, Development, and QA – to conceptualize and craft seamless user experiences that support business objectives.

You will be involved in product strategy from the very beginning, offering your knowledge and unique expertise to help shape product direction and turn ideas and concepts into a workable design. You will produce wireframes, prototypes, style guides and hi-fidelity designs to explore, experiment and ultimately advocate for simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.

You must be able to balance pixel-perfect attention to detail with low-fidelity design choices. At Method, we firmly believe that user feedback and data evolve products. Meetings and presentations are necessary to build consensus and achieve buy-in, but working software is the ultimate validation of any single approach.

Qualifications:

• Experience leading the design efforts for one or more successful – successfully shipped or successfully downloaded – online or mobile products. You know great UX, and you can walk us through your portfolio and tell a compelling story about the hard decisions and compromises you had to make along the way.
• Strong understanding of creating prototypes and production ready designs. This includes things like design systems, components, component libraries, accessibility, and interactive prototypes created through various methods including figma, AI tooling and vibe coding. You won’t necessarily be shipping production markup, styling, or code, but you see prototypes as just another means of communication. 
• Functionally bilingual in business Japanese (e.g. N2)  and English (e.g. ~TOEPIC 750)
• You understand why we have UI best practices, and you don’t try to reinvent dropdowns with each new project. You want the interface to look as polished as possible, but you also value a good hard deadline.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate persuasively across different audiences, to diverse people at varying levels of an organization. You design it, you pitch it. Nobody hides behind project managers here.
• An insatiable curiosity and a constant drive to do and be better. You download new apps and take screenshots. You try out new design tools. You attend industry events. You do stuff on the side. You love what you do, you want to be great at it, and you know there’s always something new to learn.

Location

• Remote first working with occasional need to be in our Tokyo office
• International travel for team and client meetings is required, typically up to 15%.

Why Method?

We look for individuals who are smart, kind and brave. Curious people with a natural ability to think on their feet, learn fast, and develop points-of-view for a constantly changing world find Method an exciting place to work. Our employees are excited to collaborate with dispersed and diverse teams that bring together the best in thinking and making. We champion the ability to listen, and believe that critique and dissonance lead to better outcomes. We believe everyone has the capacity to lead and look for proactive individuals who can take and give direction, lead by example, enjoy the making as much as they do the thinking, especially at senior and leadership levels.

We believe in work/life balance. Seriously. We offer a ton of competitive perks, including:

• Continuing education opportunities 
• Flexible work from home policies
• Commuting allowance
• Housing allowance
• Family allowance
• Wellness allowance
• Additional benefits include support for life events, natural disasters, and annual health check-ups.

Next Steps

If Method sounds like the place for you, please submit an application. Also, let us know if you have a presence online with a portfolio, GitHub, Dribbble or other platform.

You can find more information about how we process your personal data and what your rights are in the Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Any data subject requests received by the TAG team are immediately forwarded to the Privacy team under the TAG Procedure: Data Subject Request. This applies regardless of how the DSR was received (e.g., email, LinkedIn chat, during an interview).

Any privacy incidents that occur during the recruitment process must also be reported to the Privacy team in accordance with our established procedure.

Role: Integrated Designer

Location: Tokyo, Japan

About the role: 

OLIVER is seeking an Integrated Designer to join a high-profile account for a Fortune 500 financial services firm. This global account has already seen growth and is continuing to expand. 

The Integrated Designer collaborates on the creation and delivery of a range of cross-platform design work while adhering to creative/brand guidelines. The Designer will proactively manage design quality, accuracy, and consistency across all creative work.

This role requires fluency in both English and Japanese.

What you will be doing: 

This dedicated team is comprised of project managers, creative and digital designers, developers, and video producers. The team also partners closely with Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, and our global counter-parts in US and UK.

Working closely with our stakeholders you will work as part of a team designing and producing a variety of materials for digital and print. In the day to day, you’ll be directing, reviewing, and executing digital and print work.

Digital: corporate websites, campaigns, newsletters, email flyers, e-Learning modules, banner images, and graphics, etc.

Print: you will handle posters, flyers, brochures, newsletters, signage, event/campaign collateral, and communications related to major holidays, among other projects.

• Develop creative and graphic concepts (for digital and print) in collaboration with assigned teams to meet the aims of the brief
• Illustrates concepts by designing rough layout of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type size and style, and related aesthetic concepts
• Present concepts and designs to key individuals, advising clients on strategies to reach a particular audience
• Follow projects throughout all stages of print, production and/or online deployment
• Provide production support to produce technically correct, digital, or print ready mechanicals for release
• Interact regularly with creative leadership, creative partners and other team members as needed for completion of assigned projects
• Solve business challenges through marketing and smart creative design
  
  

What you need to be great in this role: 

• 4+ years of relevant experience in: Digital, Print, Motion Graphics, Web Design, UX-UI, Artwork, Production
• Well versed in Adobe CC, Figma, and MS Office
• Highly creative, innovative, and skilled in design and graphics
• The ability to interpret marketing ideas and turns them into visual reality at a world-class level
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the proven ability to build and maintain strong and effective client and internal relationships
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, along with the ability to listen for understanding to execute the work according to the customers’ needs.
• Passion for and inquisitive about AI and new technologies 
• Understanding and knowledge of AI tools is beneficial, but ability to learn and digest benefits and features of AI tools is critical 

Req ID: 16928

#LI-RO1 #LI-Hybrid

Experience Designers at AKQA (part of WPP) concept, craft and deliver interfaces that make technology more natural and enjoyable to use. In collaboration with strategists, researchers and technologists, our UI and UX designers take a human-centred approach to create beautiful and meaningful brand experiences.

As a Senior UI Designer, you will play an essential role in conception and design; bringing exceptional creative thinking and craft to deliver digital experiences that delight clients and users.

As part of the AKQA team in Tokyo, you will work in a dynamic, globally-minded environment surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. Together you will create world-class experiences for both Japanese and overseas markets.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrate world-class execution of innovative and effective digital communication design, interface design, and interaction design across all digital platforms.
• Consistently deliver systematic, responsive design solutions through an agile methodology.
• Apply your skills in pitches to bring ideas to life, inspiring and exciting potential clients.
• Present design work confidently to stakeholders, and build trusting relationships.
• Ideate, co-design and refine with peers and clients in a positive and collaborative manner.
• Ensure projects and tasks are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality.
• Learn new skills and stay abreast of design and technical developments. Advocate for and apply best practices to keep our team at the forefront of the industry.
• Keep on top of current and upcoming cultural trends — both in Japan and globally.
• Lead and inspire, sharing your knowledge with peers and mentoring mid/junior designers.

EXPERIENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS

• Outstanding typography and layout skills; demonstrating range and subtlety.
• Sensitivity to colour, shadows, motion and details that others may not consciously notice.
• Exceptional design aesthetics with a portfolio to demonstrate.
• Experience in creating and presenting concepts through mood boards and prototypes.
• Experience in taking designs from low-fidelity wireframes to polished digital products.
• Experience in atomic design principles and building design systems that scale.
• Understanding of usability and accessibility best practices.
• Understanding of the technical possibilities and limitations of web and app development.
• Excellent verbal, visual and written communication skills, with the ability to present logically, objectively and inspiringly.
• Native or fluent Japanese reading and speaking ability is essential.
• Intermediate or higher English ability is preferred.
• Ability to thrive in a global team, with an open mind to fresh perspectives.
• Strong experience in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and prototyping tools.
• Proven experience working in a Senior Design role (agency or client-side).
• A degree in Design, Interaction Design, or other design-related field is preferred.

#LI-DNI

Experience Designers at AKQA (part of WPP) concept, craft and deliver interfaces that make technology more natural and enjoyable to use. In collaboration with strategists, researchers and technologists, our UI and UX designers take a human-centred approach to create beautiful and meaningful brand experiences.

As a Senior UX Designer you will play an essential role balancing business, customer and technical requirements to craft blueprints for solutions that delight clients and users.

As part of the AKQA team in Tokyo, you will work in a dynamic, globally-minded environment surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. Together you will create world-class experiences for both Japanese and overseas markets.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Plan and execute core UX/CX deliverables including heuristic and IA audits, ecosystem maps, personas, customer journeys, service blueprints, and wireframes
• Collaborate across disciplines in both agile and waterfall processes to quickly deliver impactful solutions
• Present to business stakeholders to help them make informed decisions that strengthen their business
• Keep on top of best practices and trends to ensure we are at the forefront of the industry
• Lead and inspire, sharing your knowledge with peers and mentoring mid/junior designers
  
  

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• A compelling portfolio demonstrating outstanding UX design, with a desire to become even better
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to make complex topics understandable, and present logically
• Excellent writing and editing skills, experienced in crafting effective, on-brand micro copy
• Mastery of whiteboard and prototyping software such as Miro and Figma
• A “can-do” attitude, eager to embrace big challenges
• Attention to detail and a passion for getting to the root of a problem
• Ability to thrive in a global team, with an open mind to fresh perspectives
• Proven experience working in a Senior UX Design role (agency or in-house)
• A degree in Interaction Design, Information Architecture or other design-related field is preferred
• Fluency in Japanese at N1 or native level is required
• Conversational or higher English ability is preferred but not required

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