King is seeking a Principal UI Designer to create engaging and inclusive mobile game experiences. This role involves mastering UI design, mentoring colleagues, and driving the team to deliver unforgettable player journeys. The designer will utilize industry best practices in interaction design, art, and graphic design to improve product and UI design processes, identify complex problems, and design elegant, future-proof solutions across the game. They will also support strategic frameworks and champion UI feedback.

Must Have

• 5+ years of experience UI design for mobile games
• Experience working on UI style guides
• Proven examples of driving larger projects or initiatives
• Proven mentorship experience
• Eager to mentor others and bring their works to the next level
• Adaptable to change and able to perform in fast-paced environment
• Well-developed sense of visual aesthetics
• Great at articulating design decisions and presenting work to larger groups
• Confident in analyzing design specs
• Knowledge of technical constraints and assets optimisation
• Ability to apply interaction and communication design to work
• Mitigate risk in project planning
• Great understanding of how to produce appealing UI in style within available time frame and resources
• Great communication and organizational skills
• Structured and champion documentation to secure work
• Proactive mindset and a clear go-to person

Good to Have

• Experience in user testing
• Skills in animation, motion design and special effects
• Experience working in an agile project environment
• Interest in growing your influence on the end product quality

Principal UI Designer

Craft:

Games Design & Production

Job Description:

Are you ready to take our players on an incredible journey? Do you aspire to create the world’s best mobile games? We are seeking UI talent to help us level up and ensure our games are as inclusive and engaging as possible. You’ll drive our team forward to deliver unforgettable experiences that delight players across the world.

Your role within our Kingdom

You are an experienced UI Principal Designer, who will exhibit mastery of UI design and act as a role model and mentor for colleagues with less experience in one or more business areas of the product. As a UI Principal you utilize industry best practice and deep understanding of interaction design, art, graphic design, and other principles to improve Candy product and UI design processes. You are keen on identifying complex problems or inconsistencies and design elegant, future-proof solutions to be adopted across the game. You are able to work autonomously, remaining a visible and proactive team player. You are a craft influencer in your business area and cross the game.

You support the strategic framework and champion giving UI feedback to the designers, working closely with the Art/UI Director to help bring up the visual aesthetic of the game to the next level. With your passion for player- centric design, you will mentor your team members to make their designs, even more, user friendly and accessible.

As a member of the Candy team you’ll participate in a cross-location collaboration. We believe your communication and organization skills will help you to champion our cooperation on features and information exchange among the teams.

Skills to Create Thrills

Experience

• 5+ years of experience UI design for mobile games
• You have experience working on UI style guides
• You have proven examples of driving larger projects or initiatives
• You have proven mentorship experience

Knowledge & Skills

• You are eager to mentor others and bring their works to the next level
• You are adaptable to the change and able to perform in fast pacing environment
• You have a well- developed sense of visual aesthetics
• You are great at articulate design decisions and present your work to larger groups
• You are confident in analyzing design specs
• You have knowledge of technical constraints and assets optimisation
• You can apply interaction and communication design to your work
• You mitigate risk in project planning. Great understanding of how to produce appealing UI in style within the available time frame and resources
• You have great communication and organizational skills
• You are structured and champion documentation to secure your work
• You have a proactive mindset and is a clear go-to person

Tasty Bonus Skills

• Experience in user testing
• Skills in animation, motion design and special effects
• Experience working in an agile project environment
• Interest in growing your influence on the end product quality

A portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skill, including any relevant personal projects, is required.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @kinggames on X.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.

We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

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