About Backgammon.com
We’re building the modern home for backgammon – the definitive platform for a billion dollar market currently fragmented across dozens of mediocre apps. Small, experienced team creating a trusted, beautiful product for 2M+ aspiring players.
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The Role
Own UI/UX design end-to-end for our web and mobile platforms. You’ll take product specs and deliver high-quality, production-ready designs – autonomous execution, not hand-holding.
Responsibilities:
- Design player progression, education, social, and "Competitive" features
- Build and evolve our design system as the product scales
- Collaborate with product and engineering (weekly syncs, daily async)
- Deliver high-polish mocks that engineers can asynchronously implement
- Guide implementation during development
- Iterate based on analytics and user feedback
Our design principles:
- “Lowest friction” UX – minimize clicks and cognitive load
- Calm, sophisticated aesthetic (not casino/flashy)
- Trust through clarity – predictable systems, no dark patterns
- Accessible for casuals, deep for "Competitive" players
What We’re Looking For
Must-haves:
- Strong UI/UX craft – high-polish execution with minimal revision needed
- Game UI intuition – designed or deeply studied multiplayer/"Competitive"/social game UIs
- Mobile-first thinking – touch, responsive, one-handed use (non-negotiable fluency)
- Autonomous problem-solver – work from specs/goals without hand-holding
- Design systems expertise – reusable components, scalable patterns
- Collaborative but independent – tight feedback loops, ships on time
Strong preferences:
- Professional game UI/UX experience (mobile strongly preferred)
- Social features design (friends, chat, clubs, tournaments)
- Analytics fluency (GA4, behavior-driven iteration)
- Board/card/strategy game background
- Prototyping skills (Figma, Framer)
What Won’t Work
- Needing extensive art direction or hand-holding
- Casino/gambling aesthetic sensibility (we’re calm and sophisticated, not flashy)
- Designing for your portfolio instead of for users
- Requiring formal research processes before every decision
- Needing large teams or heavy process
Benefits
- 100% remote work
- "Competitive"
- Healthcare
- 401K Match
- Unlimited paid time off
- Fun, collaborative culture
Why join us?
- Small team, which will increase in size as we scale operations.
- Fully remote, and largely asynchronous. We need a self-directed developer comfortable with autonomy, high standards for code quality, and end-to-end ownership.
- Weekly synchronous meetings with the full product, development, and design teams, with additional synchronous meetings as necessary.
Backgammon.com asks respectfully to only apply through the application form and not email/apply to them directly. Recruiters and Agencies please do not contact Backgammon.com directly.
