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You will be part of shipping new features, and balancing maintenance of existing features for live service games.\nTo thrive in this role we think you have experience working with complex products and designing for different platforms and input methods such as PC, console or mobile.\nStart: as soon as possible\nContract: 6 month\nLocation: Stockholm (onsite)\nExample of responsibilities \nCollaborate across disciplines and align stakeholders to define clear problem statements, user needs and design solutions to solve those.\n\nOwn the user experience of various features end-to-end, from defining problems and needs iterating all the way until they are in the players’ hands.\n\nDesign using user flows, wireframes and prototypes, that adhere to the game’s design system and style guides.\n\nWork on a range of experiences, from crafting systems to character customization, based on where we can have the biggest impact.\n\nWork proactively, identifying gaps in the user experience to inform design decisions\n\nConsider systems before individual screens. 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