UI/UX Designer

2 Months ago • 3-5 Years • UI/UX Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Jam City is seeking an experienced UI/UX Designer to join their Narrative studio, contributing to the development of a new mobile narrative game. The role involves designing wireframes, flows, and prototypes, building and maintaining UI style guides, and creating high-quality UI assets. The designer will collaborate with Game Design, Art, and Engineering teams to translate goals into intuitive and visually compelling UI/UX solutions. Responsibilities include rapid prototyping, ensuring interface scalability, and researching market trends. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience in UI/UX design for mobile games, proficiency in design tools, strong UI art skills, and a solid understanding of user-centered design principles.
Must have:
  • 3-5 years UI/UX design experience for mobile games
  • User-centered design principles
  • Figma proficiency for wireframes, flows, prototypes
  • Strong UI art skills for game assets
  • Visual/graphic design foundation
  • Experience with UI VFX, animations, transitions
  • Proficiency with Unity
  • Collaboration and communication skills
  • Creativity and passion for narrative/puzzle games
  • Comfortable in iterative, feedback-driven environments
Good to have:
  • Focused UI art and visual design experience
  • Shipped a mobile title from concept to live
  • Worked on narrative or puzzle adventure games
  • Familiarity with licensed IP and brand guidelines
Perks:
  • Unlimited Vacation
  • Paid Sick Days & Holidays
  • 100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan
  • Life Insurance
  • 401k
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Catered Lunches
  • Well-stocked Kitchens
  • Yoga & Wellness Activities
  • Happy Hours
  • Company Events
  • Dog Friendly

Job Details

As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent.  We’re searching for innovators  who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. 

PERKS & BENEFITS
Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
Yoga & Wellness Activities
Happy Hours
Company Events
Dog Friendly

We are looking for an experienced UI/UX Designer to bring their expert game UI/UX skills to help build a new game within our Narrative studio, the team behind the hit mobile game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with top industry talent and contribute to the development of a new title, from initial concept to final product.

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Design wireframes, flows, and interactive prototypes to define the user experience for a new mobile narrative game
  • Build and maintain the UI style guide and UX documentation, ensuring clarity and consistency across the product as it evolves through development
  • Create high-quality, user-friendly UI assets aligned with the game’s art direction and design needs
  • Provide cohesive UI design spanning the full player experience - from narrative gameplay and puzzle interactions to systems, progression, and monetization interfaces
  • Collaborate closely with Game Design, Art, and Engineering to translate high-level goals into intuitive, visually compelling UI/UX solutions
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate on UI/UX concepts based on team feedback, usability testing, and player insights
  • Ensure interface scalability and responsiveness across a range of devices and screen resolutions
  • Research market trends and competitive titles to inform innovative and genre-appropriate UI/UX design

QUALIFICATIONS
  • 3 - 5 years of experience designing UI/UX for mobile games
  • Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices for mobile UX
  • Proficient in creating wireframes, flows, and interactive prototypes using tools like Figma
  • Strong experience in UI art, including creating polished game-ready assets such as icons, buttons, menus, HUDs, and other visual elements
  • Strong visual/graphic design foundation - typography, layout, composition, color theory, and information hierarchy
  • Strong background in the design and implementation of UI VFX, animations, and transitions to enhance user feedback
  • Proficiency with Unity, including integrating UI assets and understanding engine constraints
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams (Art, Design, Engineering)
  • Outstanding creativity and drive; Passion for narrative-driven or puzzle-based gameplay and crafting intuitive player experiences
  • Comfortable working in an iterative, feedback-driven environment with evolving design goals

NICE TO HAVE
  • Focused experience in UI art and visual design, with proven ownership of UI visual style and asset production
  • Experience shipping a new mobile title from concept to live operations
  • Background working on narrative-driven or puzzle adventure games
  • Familiarity with licensed IP and brand guideline constraints

CHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION
We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more. 

Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.

Led by CEO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.

The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.

Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.

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