Position: All-round product designer (UI, UX, brand)
Company: 20 Thousand Leagues
Category: Design
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

*TLDR*
Work with all operational areas and be crucial to designing a unique technology experience for casual gamers online.
We’re looking for a smart, visual thinker with opinions about product & design + social animal that fits with our unique team of experienced professionals. Check www.nemo.gg for the beginning of our journey.

*General*
20 Thousand Leagues is a startup company and the right candidate will be involved - and have a say - in everything ranging from UI Product Design, User experience, Marketing, Branding and general visual design thinking.

Your creativity is the limit as to what can be done and could be investigated for inclusion into the products we build. As the company’s first product designer you’ll be responsible for defining product interactions for technologies as different as Natural Language Processing (voice in- and output), Machine Learning and AI, computer vision detection and classical graphical overlays as well as notifications using a variety of soundstages. All part of a comprehensive UX landscape and which requires a strategy and approach!
20kL is building its first products for the massive market of League of Legends, but this is just the first game we plan to support; there are plans for Dota2, Star Citizen, PUBG, CS:GO, WoW and games we don’t even know about yet!

- Product design
You will be defining the company’s first product for casual gamers who play League of Legends. The product “Nemo” is focused on giving the casual gamer a fun and social experience when playing online.
The product philosophy is to focus on teamwork, team synergy, relevant information and making each game different and exciting. Yes, we’re actually going to make League of Legends more fun!
You’ll be leading the visual design of the application, it’s user experience and your input as to how best to realize the features that’s needed. You will work directly with developers, marketers and the CEO to realize the vision. 
You’ll be expected to understand and grasp the details of League of Legends to effectively turn around your knowledge into playful and interesting features. Feature development is a dynamic discussion between you and the CEO whereby you evolve ideas together.

- Marketing
Working with marketing will also be relevant to express visually the features being developed into the various social media channels, and such. The 20kL building a content strategy as part of its marketing efforts for social media, and will need to collaborate with you on assets for this area. There are freelancers who the company already uses, so, this area is not a hard requirement.

- Brand
As part of the effort of building the company there’s an existing brand guide that will need to be updated, re-developed and expanded upon as the company grows. 
There are freelancers who the company already uses, so, this area is not a hard requirement.

- Areas of responsibility
#visual_design - own and develop all visuals, UI, art styles, templates, standards
#user_experience - User investigations, verification, mock-ups for discussion, development and clarification within the team.
#proxy-product_owner - Responsible for formulating user stories, acceptance criteria and feature clarification.
#brand - update, renew and produce brand content.
#art-direction - social media will need assets for video creation (they do that) and will need guides and help.

- Who are you?
You’re a good allround design professional that’s not afraid to try new things, improve your skill set and help build a products for millions of users.
Curious and not afraid to ask questions; making mistakes is the fastest way to learn!
Creative and able to grasp the large picture without getting lost in the details.
Not afraid to get your fingers dirt and do it yourself! We need Do’ers, not managers!

- Benefits
You get to work directly with the owners of the business to build the company.
Management style / value-set is Scandinavian, which means flat hierarchy, and a focus on the results of your work, not hours worked.
This is a very transparent startup. You’ll see first hand what it takes to build a business, in all departments and you are encouraged to ask questions.
You will learn everything there is to learn about a hot new technology sector around Artificial Intelligence.
Possibility to participate in equity(shares) program.

You’ll be a part of a team of highly skilled experts who enjoy and play games themselves. You’ll work directly with software engineers, marketing & executive management to discuss everything from how we can find application for NLP, ML, computer vision as well as what details are available data feeds from game engines, e.g. such as the Riot API for League of Legends.

- About
20 Thousand Leagues (20kL) is an eLearning company building companion solutions for casual gamers; as well as providing advanced technology services for the gaming industry. 
The company is incorporated in Estonia, August 2018. Headquarters is located in Kiev, Ukraine and has a representative presence in Copenhagen, Denmark and plans to have offices in Berlin, Germany.

The company is founded by native Dane Simon Kaastrup-Olsen, CEO, and co-founder Yuri Ilyin, CFO. Both are  serial entrepreneurs have started - and currently run - several companies in Europe.

20 Thousand Leagues (20kL) is focused on building out its technology services portfolio business-to-business, as well as its nascent product platform towards the consumer segment within the video games industry.

20kL is one of only a handful of new technology services companies wanting to create a host of new exciting solutions for the casual games market worldwide. We are targeting our products towards a market with 240 million players. We will conquer the world with our SaaS platform for gamers worldwide and we have plans for natural language processing(NLP), augmented reality products and eLearning solutions. This is our Consumer-strategy.

Building upon our area of expertise from the gaming segment, 20kL will be helping gaming companies business-to-business and offer them our technology services. 

*The marketplace*
The gaming industry is a 240 billion dollar industry and the total audience is 2+ billion people worldwide. 20kL will build its professional services around the technical expertise we have in-house and use this expertise to improve the quality of our corporate clients’ games and help them speed up their time-to-market. We will do this by offering them tailored services and access to our talented resources.

The market for 3rd party gaming software is exploding and building educational products for casual gamers will be an expanding industry over the coming decade.

Traditionally the competitors have focused on statistics and analytics as their raison d’etre  20kL has a different take on this. Traditionally our competitors have been focused on helping players before they begin playing, and don’t offer assistance when players are live in-game playing and doing what they love!
20kL aims to make use of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision to build engaging, educational, experience-focused products to help casual gamers improve when they play their favorite games. 
We view it as our job to help build a digital coach that’s available both before a game begins, as well as when a user sits down to play a game, they will need a friendly digital coach to help improve and provide additional insight.

*Remuneration*
Market competitive salary commensurate with your skills. Career advancement is possible as the company is expanding rapidly.
For the right candidate, there will be the possibility to participate in the company’s existing equity program, making you a part-owner and linking the success of the business directly with your performance.