Principal Designer (UI/UX, Product Design, UI Systems)

Anime Universe is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead architecture and execution of core product UI/UX systems. This role involves crafting the UI/UX foundation for various interfaces and collaborating closely with engineering and product teams to create impactful design solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Architect interface systems for player, creator, and internal-facing tools
• Prototype flows in Figma, Framer, or code-linked tools
• Build and evolve design systems, token sets, and components with dev alignment
• Lead execution on high-impact UI/UX projects from zero to launch
• Define interaction logic, feedback flows, animation states, and motion paths
• Translate narrative, IP, and functional architecture into interface logic
• Mentor senior/staff designers and collaborate async with design program managers
• Drive design performance in product squads, sprints, and spec reviews

Requirements:

• 7–10+ years in product or UX design with direct experience at system level
• Experience designing complex, multi-surface tools or platforms (web/app/desktop/game/editor)
• Mastery of Figma, tokens, design systems, and atomic component architecture
• Ability to think in flows, hierarchies, edge cases, and transitions
• Can prototype independently—Framer, Protopie, Spline, or Unity UI a plus
• Fluent in async feedback, team writing, and clear visual reasoning
• Sharp visual taste aligned with anime/futurist digital aesthetics
• End-to-end mastery of both UI and UX — at the strategic, system, and brand levels
• Ground-up creator of design systems who can reason, scale, and synthesize across web + mobile apps, creative tools and runtime editors, social, marketplace, and modular platform layers, game and XR interfaces
• Bonus: experience designing tools for creators, animators, game engines, or simulation interfaces