UI Design Manager | Candy Crush Soda Saga

Craft:

UX & UI

Job Description:

As UI Manager for a key product area in Candy Crush Soda Saga, you will lead a team of UI Designers in delivering beautiful, intuitive, and performant user interfaces that bring our player experiences to life. From high-fidelity mockups to in-game implementation, you’ll shape the visual expression of features that drive engagement and monetisation. Your leadership will ensure consistency, clarity, and delight across every screen, while enabling your team to craft high-quality solutions at scale.

Your Role in Our Kingdom

• Line manage and support a team of UI Designers working across systems and features within the area.
• Define and uphold the visual direction for UI in collaboration with the Creative Director and other design leads.
• Guide your team through the full UI process — from translating UX into polished mockups to implementing final assets in-game (with engineering support).
• Ensure visual design solutions meet player needs, business goals, and platform constraints.
• Champion consistency, clarity, and usability in UI across a wide range of player journeys and feature sets.
• Maintain and evolve visual design systems and reusable components in partnership with the broader design team.
• Collaborate closely with UX, Game Design, Product, and Engineering to ensure smooth handoffs and high-quality implementation.
• Coach your team to continually grow their craft, visual problem-solving, and technical skills.
• Drive best practices for UI design and workflow efficiency across tools, pipelines, and production processes.

Skills to Create Thrills

• Strong experience designing and implementing UI for mobile or live-service products, ideally in gaming or interactive entertainment.
• Proven people leadership, with a track record of developing visual designers and supporting their growth.
• Expertise in visual communication, layout, typography, motion, and responsive design principles.
• Confidence in delivering polished mockups and seeing them through to in-game implementation.
• Familiarity with Unity and/or equivalent game engines and workflows for implementing UI.
• Strong eye for detail, consistency, and player-facing quality.
• Excellent collaboration skills across creative and technical functions.

Bonus:

• Experience designing UI for monetisation, economy, or live ops systems.
• Knowledge of shaders, animation systems, or technical UI pipelines.
• Background in visual design, illustration, or motion graphics.