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We are seeking a skilled, creative, passionate UI Artist to join our Games Team and create art-focused UI art/assets for a social multiplayer game. You will collaborate closely with the UX Designer to deliver visually appealing UI art/assets that enhance gameplay and player experience. Responsibilities include creating UI art/assets, collaborating with stakeholders, providing end-to-end UI art solutions, maintaining documentation, and presenting solutions.

<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">About the Role</h3>We are seeking a skilled, creative, passionate and artistic UI Artist to join our Games Team and create art focused, UI art/assets on a social multiplayer game of a fantastic IP.You will be an enthusiastic, accomplished UI artist/designer, collaborating closely with our UX Designer to deliver on their approved designs, creating visually appealing UI art/assets that enhance the gameplay and player experience.This role is open to candidates who wish to work remote, on site in our Glasgow Studio or hybrid.Please ensure that you include your portfolio as an attachment or provide a link to it.<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Key Responsibilities</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Creating great UI art/assets that enhance the game and player experience.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Working and collaborating closely with UX Designer and other Key Stakeholders to create art driven UI art/assets ensuring they are art, game/player focused and intuitive to understand while meeting visual, stylistic, gameplay and technical requirements.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Providing UI art/asset solutions from the ground up, from early research, incorporating feedback and useability/player tests, through iterative refinement to high-fidelity mockups and final in-game delivery.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Create, share and maintain artistic processes, techniques and technical documentation of UI art/assets and features.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Clearly present and deliver the best UI art/asset solutions to UX Designer and other key stakeholders.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Work to increase and share knowledge, skills and experience.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Skills & Experience</h3><h4 class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold mt-6 mb-2 text-gray-800">Essential</h4><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Excellent UI art/asset creative skills.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Visual design skills: composition, layout, iconography, typography, colour theory.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Excellent working knowledge of industry standard tools, for example: Figma, Adobe Products (Photoshop, Illustrator), After Effects.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience creating Figma Prototypes and high-fidelity wireframes, ensuring any required interactivity is tested and delivered.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Ability to Design visually appealing UI art/assets for Mobile applications with industry experience. Published titles in casual, multiplayer and/or social gaming a huge bonus.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Great attention to detail and a passion for making quality UI art/assets that consistently deliver on artistic, stylistic, visual, gameplay requirements and experiences.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Highly collaborative, creative, artistic and problem-solving mindset coupled with the ability to take responsibility and ownership.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to clearly and effectively present approaches and techniques and explain decisions and ideas.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong team player, able to provide and accept timely, clear, constructive feedback and advice to and from team members.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Able to provide visually engaging UI art/asset solutions to problems and ideate and iterate UI art/assets quickly.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Able to work within guidelines while finding opportunities for creative expression.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Self-motivated, Pro-Active and Collaborative.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Fluent in English, spoken and written.</li></ul><h4 class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold mt-6 mb-2 text-gray-800">Desirable</h4><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience or awareness of multi-platform game development pipelines.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Wide knowledge of games, genres and styles.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Knowledge of different play-testing methods.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Degree or other significant qualification or experience in an Art, Games, Visual Effects, 3D or Motion Graphics related subject, with corresponding portfolio and/or showreel.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience in using Miro and Jira.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Basic knowledge of UI implementation in Unity Engine.</li></ul>

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JOIN USEscape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits and what we believe is a fantastic project. But that doesn’t make us unique. What does make us special? We value the time, energy, and talent of our players and our colleagues. We want every hour spent developing and playing our games to be an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile use of your time. To that end, we are fully remote and support team members nearly anywhere in the world. We prioritize honesty, even when that means sharing bad news. We strive to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play; and we care more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you’re clocking. We believe in constant improvement across all areas – from the game itself to our production design – and are constantly re-evaluating how we spend our time to ensure that we’re not wasting yours and we’re all always working on the most important things. Finally (and perhaps most importantly) we’re dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all.

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You will direct and guide designers in all areas of design, including systems, gameplay, and level design; and collaborate with other Directors, Leads, and individual contributors to ensure that the game vision is realized in software at the highest quality.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Drive Quality with Urgency. You will lead the design team to introduce features and content to players as efficiently and quickly as possible. You will drive decisions and critically and ruthlessly evaluate all aspects of the game design – from moment-to-moment gameplay to meta progression – to ensure that we achieve quality while still delivering on other commitments and deadlines.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Unify, motivate, mentor, and manage designers. You will directly manage design leads, and serve as a mentor and leader to all designers and many others on the team. You will lead by example in the way you interact with the rest of the team, push for quality while problem-solving development challenges, and champion the vision for the game.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Build a best-In-class design team. You will work with HR, recruiting, and other managers to identify and fill talent gaps, grow talent, set performance benchmarks, develop clear career paths within systems design, establish best practices, and hire industry-leading talent. Most importantly, you will establish and enforce a healthy culture within system design that emphasizes problem solving, collaboration, player-facing development, and unwavering support for the overall vision.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Serve as the voice design across the project. You will communicate with Leads, Directors, and – most importantly – across team structures and disciplines to ensure that everyone understands the goals, designs, and progress of the design team.</li></ul>What you will bring:<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">An ambitious, quality-first mindset. You believe the best idea wins and are optimistic that there are always ways to bring those ideas to life despite real-world constraints. You push hard for quality and understand that we must build a game that players love, not just like.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Two or more shipped titles in competitive MP / Live Service games: You bring practical design experience from competitive titles and understand the design challenges that arise both before and after launch. You have strong understanding of how to analyze data and address design issues in a live environment.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong managerial experience. You have recruited, built and led design teams to successful outcomes, managed employees through difficult challenges, grown your direct reports, and mentored others on large, cross-discipline teams.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Deep Knowledge of Multiplayer Game Design. You have a professional understanding of the gameplay, systems, features, and level design found in contemporary AAA shooters and MOBAs, and a keen knowledge for how those features and systems work, not just individually, but collectively.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Exceptional Communication Skills. You can convey your thoughts, opinions, and direction clearly, articulately, and concisely in both verbal and written formats.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Benefits</h3>Interested? 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UI Artist

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