Senior UI Designer 12 month FTC | Candy Crush Saga

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Job Description:

Please note this is a 12 month fixed term contract.

Can you take our players on a journey? Do you want to create the world's best mobile games? We need UI talent to help us level up. You'll drive our team forward to deliver unforgettable experiences that delight players across the world.

Your role within our Kingdom

As an experienced and talented Senior UI Designer, you’ll work closely with UX and game designers, user researchers, developers, game artists and technical artists. Collaborating with internal stakeholders, UI lead and producers, you will work on the effective and optimised user interface systems and new player-centric features for Candy Crush. With your passion for interaction and communication design, you’ll help us to apply design principles in practice and proactively share your knowledge with other UI designers and game artists. 

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

Skills to create Thrills

• You have experience in UI design for games

• You have a well-developed sense of visual aesthetics

• You have knowledge of technical constraints and assets optimisation

• You can apply interaction and communication design to your work

• You are confident in analysing design specs 

• You are a proactive and reliable team player

• You have good communication and organizational skills

• You are interested in typography and iconography

Bonus Points

• Experience in UI implementation with game engines

• Experience in UI design for mobile games

• Skills in animation, motion design and special effects

A portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skill is required.

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.