• Set the strategic UX direction for our mobile products (iOS and Android), establishing design vision that connects to business outcomes and long-term product strategy. • Build our design system from the ground up—creating the frameworks, patterns, components, and guidelines that enable our small team to design and ship faster with consistency and quality. • Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape product roadmap and strategy, bringing user insights and design thinking to high-stakes decisions. • Identify systemic design opportunities and challenges across our mobile experience, proposing scalable solutions that improve user engagement, retention, and business metrics. • Drive clarity and structure when product direction is unclear—independently framing problems, defining success criteria, and creating alignment in our fast-paced startup environment. • Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that require organizational alignment, from gamification strategy to personalization systems to rewards architecture. • Think strategically about mobile-first consumer product growth: acquisition funnels, activation moments, habit formation, and retention mechanics. • Establish design standards, processes, and best practices that scale as the team and product grow—from design reviews to research methodologies to documentation. • Use data and research at scale to inform strategic decisions: analyzing patterns across user segments, measuring the impact of design initiatives, and identifying high-leverage opportunities. • Influence outcomes beyond your direct work by raising design quality, improving processes, and coaching other designers to think more strategically. • Develop and mentor senior designers, helping them grow their strategic thinking, systems thinking, and design leadership capabilities. • Represent design in cross-functional strategic discussions with product, engineering, and business leadership—advocating for user needs and long-term design quality. • Collaborate with marketing and growth teams to ensure coherent user experiences across the entire customer journey—from acquisition through retention. • Anticipate technical and organizational challenges before they impact product delivery, proactively addressing them through strategic design decisions.

• Producing flows, wireframes, visual designs and final assets for integration into Unity • Working closely with game designers, animators, VFX specialists and developers to identify UX requirements and technical solutions for graphical implementation • Produce professional, considered and annotated documents that highlight UI design guidelines, color coding and other related details.

• You'll work across many aspects of the design process. Our Principals are true multidisciplinary designers and craftspeople, bridging experience, visual, and motion design to create exceptional digital products. • Set the bar for quality on your projects. Typically you’ll be the only principal designer on a project, so you’ll be identifying opportunities to elevate the work and the team around you, often pushing clients and colleagues outside of their comfort zones to deliver exceptional products. • Support other designers of all levels in the work and help to promote an inspiring and inclusive environment for the team. • Work closely with our brand team to ensure that the brand principles are translated into the products we design. • Collaborate with design specialists. • Participate with research and strategy to generate and evaluate design opportunities, and test solutions through storyboards and prototypes. • Collaborate directly with and present to key client team members. • Work hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation. • If desired, you have the opportunity to coach and mentor other designers. • Share your knowledge and approach to the craft with the broader design team at Metalab and the wider industry.

• Develop new, innovative experiences across sites and platforms within the Vista product experience • Build high-quality, user-centric, measurably impactful work that will affect millions of customers globally • Partner with talented leaders, designers, PMs and engineers and have a direct impact on the future look and feel of Vista