Technical UX Designer
Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.
Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.
Location: Remote (USA & Canada preferred) with occasional office travel
Annual salary: USD 100,000 to USD 130,000
Type: Full-time
Reports to: Director of Product Design
The Role
This role focuses on end-to-end UX for Playground and companion surfaces. You will translate business goals into clear user problems and UX flows, then specify exact UI behavior, states, and copy so engineering can ship with confidence. The main output includes user stories, development specification that is refined collaboratively with the dev team.
What You'll Own
- Problem framing and opportunity sizing grounded in user needs and business goals
- Information architecture, task flows, wireframes, interaction specs, and microcopy
- Design documentation that specifies exact behavior across all UI states and edge cases
- Partnering with Engineering to de-risk delivery
- Ensuring the proposed solution actually solves the identified problem
Key Responsibilities
- Refine user stories with the development team until implementable
- Translate business requirements and technical questions between Product and Engineering teams
- Specify exact application behavior, UI states, component variants, error/empty/loading states, and all text labels
- Conduct detailed requirement analysis and gap/corner case identification
- Define detailed acceptance criteria and technical specifications in collaboration with Engineering
- Define measurement plan with PM to validate outcomes post-ship
- Ideate on new and unique UX concepts
- Participate in market research, including user interviews and competitor analysis
- Create design wireframes and prototypes
- Design and present UX demonstrations to stakeholders
Standard UX Scope For This Role
- Journey mapping for core and support flows
- Accessibility considerations (WCAG-informed) and localization readiness
- Design system usage and contribution: components, tokens, patterns
- Prototyping fidelity matched to need: low-fi for alignment, high-fi for behavior and copy
- Usability evaluation: task-based testing, heuristic reviews, and QA of implemented UI
Deliverables And Artifacts
- Problem statement and success criteria
- User story and dev spec
- Flow diagrams and annotated wireframes
- Component and state documentation, including copy
- Acceptance criteria and test cases
- Release notes inputs and support content recommendations
Qualifications
- 4+ years in UX or Product Design delivering shipped products with engineering partners
- Portfolio showing end-to-end problem solving, interaction design, and shipped quality
- Excellent systems thinking and attention to detail across states and edge cases
- Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools; ability to document behavior clearly
- Strong communication skills and comfort facilitating cross-functional decisions
Nice To Have
- 10-foot UI, TV, console, or OS-level experience
- Designing for family or multi-user contexts
- Experience with localization and accessibility at scale
How We Work
- Weekly design reviews and cross-functional rituals focused on outcomes
- Close partnership with engineering throughout refinement and implementation
- Evidence-led iterations using research and product analytics
If you’re excited to craft clear, thorough UX that teams love to build and users love to use, please apply with a portfolio highlighting end-to-end specifications and shipped outcomes.
We Offer
- Competitive compensation package.
- Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
- Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
- Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field
Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!
Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.
We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.