UI Artist

Exient is seeking a UI Artist to create high-quality UI and graphic design work, enhancing the visual identity and player experience across various games. This role involves collaborating with Art Leads and Directors to deliver polished UI assets, mockups, and layouts for both existing and new titles. The artist will apply creativity, strong UX understanding, and work effectively across multiple disciplines in a fast-paced environment, ensuring designs align with visual language and UX best practices.

Must Have

• Produce high-quality UI assets, layouts, mockups, and supporting graphics.
• Contribute to defining the artistic vision of UI features in collaboration with Art Leads and Directors.
• Develop UI concepts that align with visual language and graphic design principles.
• Adapt existing UI to match established art styles while maintaining usability and clarity.
• Provide 2D illustration work as needed to support UI features or visual elements.
• Apply strong colour theory, typography, and compositional skills to all UI work.
• Create marketing and PR artwork when required.
• Ensure all UI designs adhere to UX best practices and support an intuitive player experience.
• Interpret briefs and client feedback effectively and communicate with stakeholders clearly.
• Liaise directly with clients when needed to refine vision and direction.
• Work closely with designers, engineers, artists, and production to ensure cohesive execution of UI/UX features.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to solve technical and creative challenges.
• Offer insight and contribute to discussions around UX and UI problem-solving across teams.
• Support development of tools, pipelines, or workflows that improve the efficiency of UI and art deliverables.
• Mentor less experienced UI artists, providing constructive critique and guidance.
• Adapt to evolving project needs in a fast-moving business environment with a positive, solutions-oriented mindset.
• Solid understanding of visual language and graphic design principles.
• Proven ability to create high-quality UI concepts and layouts.
• Strong understanding of UX principles and their application to game UI.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects.
• Knowledge of typography and font usage.
• Strong colour theory and composition skills.
• Ability to work within established art styles and adapt to new ones.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to interpret feedback effectively.
• Experience with Unity.
• Positive, proactive attitude with a willingness to take on challenges.
• All applicants must be based in Malta or willing to relocate.

About Us

Exient is a leading developer and publisher of mobile free-to-play and premium games, with acclaimed titles including Lemmings, Angry Birds Transformers, and Dancing with the Stars. Headquartered in Malta with remote team members across the UK and beyond, we’re a world-class, international team of passionate game makers and creatives.

While mobile gaming is at our core, our experience spans multiple platforms, combining creativity, technical excellence, and LiveOps expertise to deliver engaging experiences to players worldwide. We also partner with studios and publishers to help bring their games to life. Since 2000, we’ve worked with major entertainment brands including Sony, Rovio, and EA. Our people are the heart of Exient and we’re always looking for those who live and breathe mobile games and are inspired to make them better.

If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Please include a cover letter telling us what drives you and what kind of mobile games inspire you most as it helps us understand how you could contribute to our team and culture.

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a UI Artist to create high-quality UI and graphic design work that enhances the visual identity and player experience of our games. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our Art Leads and Directors to deliver polished UI assets, mockups, and layouts across a variety of projects.

You will work on both existing titles, adapting and extending current art styles, and new initiatives where you will help shape fresh visual directions. This role requires creativity, strong UX understanding, and the ability to work effectively across multiple disciplines in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include

As a UI Artist, you’ll operate across both creative execution and collaborative cross-disciplinary work.

Creative Responsibilities:

• Produce high-quality UI assets, layouts, mockups, and supporting graphics.
• Contribute to defining the artistic vision of UI features in collaboration with Art Leads and Directors.
• Develop UI concepts that align with visual language and graphic design principles.
• Adapt existing UI to match established art styles while maintaining usability and clarity.
• Provide 2D illustration work as needed to support UI features or visual elements.
• Apply strong colour theory, typography, and compositional skills to all UI work.
• Create marketing and PR artwork when required.
• Ensure all UI designs adhere to UX best practices and support an intuitive player experience.

Collaborative Responsibilities:

• Interpret briefs and client feedback effectively and communicate with stakeholders clearly.
• Liaise directly with clients when needed to refine vision and direction.
• Work closely with designers, engineers, artists, and production to ensure cohesive execution of UI/UX features.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to solve technical and creative challenges.
• Offer insight and contribute to discussions around UX and UI problem-solving across teams.
• Support development of tools, pipelines, or workflows that improve the efficiency of UI and art deliverables.
• Mentor less experienced UI artists, providing constructive critique and guidance.
• Adapt to evolving project needs in a fast-moving business environment with a positive, solutions-oriented mindset.

Required

• Solid understanding of visual language and graphic design principles.
• Proven ability to create high-quality UI concepts and layouts.
• Strong understanding of UX principles and their application to game UI.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects.
• Knowledge of typography and font usage.
• Strong colour theory and composition skills.
• Ability to work within established art styles and adapt to new ones.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to interpret feedback effectively.
• Experience with Unity.
• Positive, proactive attitude with a willingness to take on challenges.

All applicants must be based in Malta or willing to relocate.