UI Designer | Candy Crush Saga

1 Hour ago • All levels • UI/UX Design

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Job Description

As a UI Designer at King, you'll collaborate with UX/game designers, researchers, developers, and artists to create engaging user interfaces for Candy Crush Saga. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing UI systems, developing new player-centric features, applying interaction and communication design principles, and participating in cross-location team collaborations. You'll need strong UI design experience, a keen eye for visual aesthetics, understanding of asset optimization, and excellent communication and organizational skills. The role involves working on a high-profile game with a large player base, offering the chance to impact millions of users.
Must have:
  • UI design experience
  • Visual aesthetics sense
  • Asset optimization understanding
  • Interaction & communication design skills
  • Teamwork & communication
  • Proactive & reliable
Good to have:
  • Game/mobile game UI design
  • UI implementation with game engines
  • Animation, motion design, special effects
  • Typography & iconography skills
  • Experience with design specs
  • Agile project environment experience
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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

As a talented UI Designer, you’ll work closely with UX and game designers, user researchers, developers, game artists and technical artists. Collaborating with other specialists in your feature team, UI lead and producers, you will work on the effective and optimised user interface systems and new player-centric features for Candy Crush. You are following your passion for interaction and communication design and strive to learn more about it applying these design principles in practice. 

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

  • You have a well-developed sense of visual aesthetics

  • You understand the need of assets optimisation and keen on technical constraints

  • You can apply interaction and communication design to your work

  • You are a proactive and reliable team player

  • You have good communication and organizational skills

  • You are willing to expand your professional knowledge

Bonus Points

  • Experience in UI design for games, mobile games as a plus

  • Experience in UI implementation with game engines

  • Skills in animation, motion design and/or special effects

  • Interested in typography and iconography

  • Experience working with design specs 

  • Experience working in an agile project environment

A portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skill, including any relevant personal projects, 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, 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 acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

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At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it and loads of other sweet games like Farm Heroes.

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