Full-Time

UI/UX Director

Second Dinner

Second Dinner

51-200 employees

Mobile game development with agile team

Compensation Overview

$220k - $260k/yr

+ Equity + Performance bonuses + Home office improvement bonus

No H1B Sponsorship

Remote in USA + 1 more

More locations: Irvine, CA, USA

Remote

Remote within the United States; core overlap hours are 10 AM to 4 PM Pacific Time.

Category
Product & Experience Design (1)
Required Skills
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • Experience crafting intuitive and engaging user interfaces on mobile platforms.
  • Experience with Match-3 or other puzzle games.
  • Ability to render high-quality user interface elements.
  • Experience working directly in a game engine.
Responsibilities
  • Provide leadership for the mobile game's user interface and user experience, ensuring alignment with the game's creative vision and player experience goals.
  • Lead and direct the UI/UX team.
  • Collaborate with game designers, artists, and developers to integrate UI/UX into the overall game design and improve designs that may negatively affect the user experience.
  • Implement player feedback to refine and optimize the UI/UX throughout the game development process.
  • Develop and maintain design documentation for UI patterns and elements.
  • Document and communicate design decisions, rationale, and guidelines to ensure shared understanding among the development team.
  • Create interactive prototypes and wireframes to test and iterate on design concepts.
  • Design tests and use data to refine and optimize the UI/UX throughout the game development process.
  • Direct motion design through storyboards or prototypes for UI transitions and interactions.
  • Implement the UI/UX in the game build.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience crafting intuitive and engaging user interfaces for mobile games.
  • Experience with Match-3 or other puzzle games.
  • Ability to render high-quality user interface elements.
  • Ability to generate enthusiasm for new design ideas.
  • Experience working directly in a game engine.

Second Dinner is a mobile game development studio based in Orange County, California. It creates deep, engaging mobile games and releases them to mobile gamers through a mix of in-app purchases, advertisements, and premium sales. The company uses a small, agile team that maintains a high level of ownership, enabling rapid development cycles and quick adaptation to market changes. It is fully funded, allowing a stable focus on delivering quality games without constant fundraising pressure, and it emphasizes a diverse, collaborative culture to bring in varied perspectives. The studio’s main goal is to produce enjoyable, immersive experiences for players while sustaining financial stability and attracting top talent through competitive salaries and stock options.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$130M

Headquarters

Tustin, California

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • August 31, 2026 AXIS: Inversion shows Marvel Snap still attracts major seasonal engagement.
  • The May 2026 web shop improves margins and reduces dependence on Apple and Google.
  • Work continues on an unannounced mobile game, preserving upside beyond Marvel Snap.

What critics are saying

  • May 2026 layoffs cut 16 staff, shrinking execution capacity during a fragile turnaround.
  • March 2026 roadmap admits crashes, memory issues, and monetization misses still haunt Marvel Snap.
  • Marvel Snap remains the revenue engine; any player decay threatens Second Dinner’s survival by 2027.

What makes Second Dinner unique

  • Marvel Snap’s August 2026 live ops keep the team shipping weekly content.
  • June 2025 Xsolla web shop gives Second Dinner direct-to-player monetization control.
  • W4 Games partnership makes Second Dinner a rare big-studio Godot believer.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Company Match

16 weeks paid parental leave

Home Office Stipend

Paid Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Mental Health Support

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

2%
Polygon
May 2nd, 2026
Marvel game dev attempts to quell community concerns after layoffs.

Marvel game dev attempts to quell community concerns after layoffs. The Marvel Snap community is very concerned about the future of the digital card game after layoffs at developer Second Dinner. This prompted studio co-founder Ben Brode to respond and attempt to quell those fears by stating Second Dinner is still committed to Marvel Snap. Marvel Snap originally launched in 2022 and attracted a very healthy community of players. Over time, that community has gotten smaller due to player fatigue and controversies regarding the game's approach to monetization. In March, Second Dinner published a blog post stating that it would take the rest of 2026 to fix some persistent issues with Marvel Snap and better set the game up for future updates. In the weeks since that post, game designer Glenn Jones left Second Dinner and the studio laid off several developers, including community manager Griffin Bennett. This X post from Marvel Snap content creator Regis Killbin sums up the situation and how the community feels about it: This exodus of staff critical to Marvel Snap's development is obviously cause for concern, with players on the game's official Reddit and Discord pages clearly voicing their concerns. There's an overarching worry that support for Marvel Snap is now going to wind down as it has felt like the game was suffering a slow death for some time. Second Dinner originally stayed silent regarding the layoffs, but studio founder Ben Brode posted on Marvel Snap's Discord on May 1. He explained why the layoffs happened and reassured players that Second Dinner will follow through on what was promised in its March blog post. "We said goodbye to a few members of our team yesterday, including our awesome community manager," Brode explained. "You know how much he cared about this community and we're going to miss him. We know many of you will, too. These decisions were painful to make and say nothing about the quality of the people leaving. Across the board, they're talented, wonderful people... For those of you concerned about Snap, we're still here, still building, still committed to this game and to you. The roadmap we shared in March remains the same. This is us making hard decisions to make sure we can keep going, not a sign that we're winding down. We're here to support you." Gain deeper context by subscribing to its newsletter to get clear coverage and analysis of Marvel Snap, studio decisions, and community reaction - plus thoughtful coverage of other live-service games and industry trends. Historically, it's never a great sign when a live service game developer has layoffs like this, even when the leadership say it's not a bad thing. While this isn't shaping up to be a Highguard-level fiasco, Brode's statement doesn't raise my confidence as an avid Marvel Snap player. While I'll keep playing for now, these layoffs have definitely shaken my faith in the game's future more than any other controversy Marvel Snap has faced over the past four years. Marvel Snap is still available and receiving updates on Android, iOS, and PC. The game's next season, Daredevil: Crimson Twilight, will begin on May 5.

Steel Media Ltd
Jun 13th, 2025
Xsolla And Second Dinner Launch New Marvel Snap Web Shop

Stay InformedGet Industry News In Your Inbox…Sign Up Today. Xsolla has launched a new, officially branded Web Shop for the mobile title Marvel Snap, developed by Second Dinner. The direct-to-player platform has been created to provide players with a rewards-focused experience and is intended to support the studio’s long-term live ops strategy as it moves into self-publishing. The new shop aims to create a deeper and more direct relationship between the studio and its global player base

Snap-Fan
Oct 14th, 2024
MARVEL SNAP Development Roadmap Review - October 2024

Second Dinner has unveiled a new Development roadmap; Snap Fan will break it all down and review it!

VentureBeat
Aug 7th, 2024
Second Dinner Invests In W4 Games And Will Make Godot Games

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. Second Dinner said it will invest in W4 Games and it will also make games based on the Godot engine which W4 services.W4 Games is a company that provides products and services to facilitate the development and commercialization of video games made with the Godot engine. W4 Games has established a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with Second Dinner, the award-winning game developmentstudio behind the hit game Marvel Snap.The two partners unveiled a collaboration in which W4 Games will accelerate the adoption of Godot Engine by Second Dinner, which plans to build the most ambitious Godot game yet. To further strengthen the parties’ relationship over the long term, Second Dinner has joined W4 Games as a strategic investor. Godot Engine is a free and open-source technology that became popular among indies for its ease of use,

VentureBeat
Aug 7th, 2024
Second Dinner invests in W4 Games and will make Godot games

Second Dinner said it will invest in W4 Games and it will also make games based on the Godot engine which W4 services.