Overview

Designers at Valve work independently and without management, collaborating with world-class software engineers, business leaders, and fellow designers who are continually creating and releasing social entertainment experiences to players around the globe. Designers help define the features we design, rather than following a vision articulated by someone else. We shape products through functional exploration and design decision-making, following a customer-centric approach as we navigate visual communication, usability, writing, and marketing. Designers at Valve contribute in a wide variety of ways.

What Designers Do at Valve

• Define and articulate goals.
• Design and publish user interfaces, architectures, layouts, and graphics.
• Conceive and evolve ideas from wireframes, mockups, and prototypes through to realized products.
• Create UI for use across desktop, mobile, handheld, and VR.
• Imagine and execute illustrations, iconography, animations, and photography for our own designs.
• Plan, design, and write communications and marketing materials about new features and products.
• Devise and implement user studies.
• Create branding and define use guidelines.
• Collect and analyze user data to inform priorities.
• Author documentation to support our game partners.

Tools & Deliverables We Use

• Pixel-perfect mockups in Figma, Photoshop, InDesign.
• Front-end development in CSS, PHP, React, etc.
• Print production and setup.
• Production-ready illustrations, animations, graphics, and marketing imagery.

Design is a broad field; we see it as a framework within which to solve problems. Those of us who identify as Designers at Valve come from a variety of backgrounds with previous job titles—from motion designers to industrial designers, UX designers to graphic & communication designers. What we all have in common is a shared foundation in Visual Design. If you approach your work through a design thinking lens and are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.

What We Offer

• An organization where 100% of time is dedicated as groups see fit.
• The opportunity to collaborate with experts across a range of disciplines.
• A work environment and flexible schedule in support of families and domestic partnerships.
• A culture eager to become stronger through diversity of all forms.
• Exceptional health insurance coverage.
• Unrivaled employer match for our 401(k) retirement plan.
• Generous vacation and family leave.
• On-site amenities in support of health and efficiency.
• Fertility and adoption assistance.
• Reimbursement for child care during interviews.

Diversity, Inclusion & Equal Opportunity

Valve strives to improve the diversity of our teams to better serve our diverse global audience. We welcome and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Candidates will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, family status, veteran status, or disability status. Valve is committed to creating an inclusive work environment and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment in the workplace.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.