UI Designer (Localization)

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

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Location: Hong Kong Type: Full Time Contractor, with the possibility to extend or convert Reports to: UI/UX Manager

The Role

We are looking for a UX/UI Designer specializing in game UI localization to help adapt Nex games for players across multiple languages and regions.

This role focuses on making existing interfaces localization-ready and implementing localized content without compromising clarity, usability, visual quality, or performance. You will work across Figma and Unity to identify localization risks, adapt layouts and components for translated content, implement approved translations, and verify the final experience in game builds.

You will collaborate closely with UI/UX designers, engineers, technical artists, producers, QA, Content Operations, and localization partners. This is a hands-on production role for a designer who is comfortable owning localization work from design audit through implementation and visual QA.

What You'll Do

• Audit UI for Localization Readiness: Review game screens, flows, and components to identify hardcoded text, embedded text in images, fixed-size containers, truncation risks, unsupported characters, and other localization blockers.
• Adapt Layouts for Translated Content: Update Figma layouts and UI components to support text expansion, wrapping, dynamic sizing, different line heights, and script-specific typography while preserving hierarchy and readability.
• Maintain Visual Quality Across Locales: Adjust spacing, alignment, typography, icon placement, and responsive behavior for each target language without changing the approved meaning of translations.
• Prepare Localization-Ready Assets: Separate text from artwork, create language-neutral assets, and produce localized visual variants only when text or culturally specific content must be embedded.
• Improve Localization Standards: Contribute reusable components, checklists, templates, and design-system guidance that make future game localization faster and more reliable.

What We're Looking For

• Relevant Experience: Professional UI design or game UI production experience, with hands-on involvement in localization, internationalization, or multilingual product delivery.
• Strong UI Craft: A portfolio demonstrating polished interface layouts, typography, visual hierarchy, reusable components, and production-ready asset creation.
• Localization-Aware Design: Practical understanding of text expansion, dynamic layouts, wrapping and truncation rules, font fallback, CJK typography, locale-specific formatting, and culturally sensitive visuals.
• Figma Proficiency: Advanced experience with Auto Layout, components, variants, constraints, design systems, and efficient production workflows.
• Quality Mindset: Strong attention to detail and the ability to systematically find, document, and verify visual defects across multiple languages and screen states.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Ability to communicate clearly with designers, engineers, QA, producers, and localization partners, especially when balancing visual quality, technical constraints, and deadlines.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
• Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at https://www.nexplayground.com/about.

We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!

Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.

We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.