Riyo games

Lead UI/UX Designer

Riyo Games seeks a Lead UI/UX Designer to create exceptional user experiences for their games. The role involves designing intuitive, visually engaging interfaces, collaborating with game designers, artists, and engineers, and ensuring accessibility and responsiveness across multiple platforms. The designer will champion the UI strategy, and will be responsible for UI assets, animations, and workflows working with UX wireframes and prototypes that align with the game’s artistic vision and usability goals. The role also includes responsibilities of maintaining and refining UI pipelines, tools, and best practices. The designer will participate in playtests and consider UX sensibilities. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping engaging experiences for players. The role is remote.

<h3 class="editor-heading-h3" style="text-align:justify;">Position Summary</h3><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;">Riyo Games is looking for a <b><strong class="editor-text-bold">Lead UI/UX Designer</strong></b> to craft exceptional user experiences for our games. In this role, you’ll be responsible for designing intuitive, visually engaging, and player-centric interfaces that enhance gameplay and immersion. You’ll collaborate closely with game designers, artists, and engineers to concept, develop, and implement high-quality UI assets, animations, and workflows working with UX wireframes and prototypes that align with the game’s artistic vision and usability goals.</p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;">As a key contributor, you'll champion and drive the UI strategy, ensuring accessibility, clarity, and responsiveness across multiple platforms. Your expertise in aesthetics, graphic design, and animation/VFX, with an understanding of player psychology, and interaction design will help shape engaging experiences that keep players immersed in our worlds.</p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><br></p><h3 class="editor-heading-h3" style="text-align:justify;">About Us</h3><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;">Our mission is to craft retro-infused JRPGs that awaken cherished childhood memories. Our growing studio is assembling a dream team of talent from across the globe to build the games you’ve always dreamed of growing up. Join us on this epic quest to make fun, narrative-rich games in an inclusive, supportive, and fun studio environment!</p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;">You’ll be working on Threads of Time, a 2.5D JRPG inspired by Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy where you get to travel from the pre-historic era to the end of time!</p><ul class="editor-list-ul"> <li class="editor-listitem">Become part of a veteran team that has included legendary developers who led iconic titles such as Xenoblade Chronicles, Legend of Mana, and more</li> <li class="editor-listitem">4 weeks paid vacation (1 week of which is taken in late December)</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Collaborative environment with opportunities to contribute to the game’s creative design and take ownership of features</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Opportunities to help you strengthen your skills or learn something new</li> <li class="editor-listitem">A workplace that appreciates and values diversity and inclusivity</li> </ul><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><br></p><h3 class="editor-heading-h3" style="text-align:justify;">Responsibilities</h3><ul class="editor-list-ul"> <li class="editor-listitem">Work closely with the Art Director, Design Director, and Production to bring the vision for game UI and overall player experience to life</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Champion the design and development of front-end, UI, and HUD</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Conceptualize, design, and implement high-quality UI assets, animations, and visual effects in Unreal Engine</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Maintain and update design UI style guides</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Maintain and refine UI pipelines, tools, and best practices</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Ensure UI meets accessibility goals, responsiveness, and consistency across various screen sizes, devices, and considerations for multiple platforms</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Collaborate with cross-disciplines to implement UI, ensuring accuracy and alignment with UX and game design expectations</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Participate in playtests to observe the effectiveness of UI usability, and collaborate with UX to create solutions from feedback</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Support bug fixes, polish UI assets, and implementation</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Considerations and awareness of UX sensibilities in both game design and usability; can delineate between UX and UI solutions</li> </ul><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><br></p><h3 class="editor-heading-h3" style="text-align:justify;">Qualifications</h3><ul class="editor-list-ul"> <li class="editor-listitem">7 to 10+ years of professional experience as a UI/UX Designer in the video game industry</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Strong graphic design background with skills in composition, color theory, and artistic sensitivity</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Proficient in graphic design tools, prototyping tools, and animation tools such as Adobe Photoshop or equivalent industry standard, Figma, etc.</li> <li class="editor-listitem">3-5 years of professional experience using Unreal Engine</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Passion for gaming and deep knowledge of player behavior and usability principles</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Ability to communicate complex game information clearly through simple and smart UI designs that reinforce UX design</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Strong team collaboration skills, working with designers and engineers to ensure the best user experience</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Self-motivated and able to work independently as part of a senior team to meet deadlines and milestone requirements</li> <li class="editor-listitem">High attention to detail and well-organized</li> <li class="editor-listitem">Strong visualization and documentation skills&nbsp;</li> <li class="editor-listitem">A love and understanding of JRPGs</li> </ul><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><br></p><p class="editor-paragraph"><br></p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><b><strong class="editor-text-bold">Salary</strong></b>: $90,000 - $110,000 CAD</p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><br></p><p class="editor-paragraph"><b><strong class="editor-text-bold">Please note that although this is a </strong></b><u><b><strong class="editor-text-bold editor-text-underline">full-time remote</strong></b></u> <u><b><strong class="editor-text-bold editor-text-underline">position</strong></b></u><b><strong class="editor-text-bold editor-text-italic">, </strong></b><b><strong class="editor-text-bold">applicants must reside in either Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, or British Columbia, or be willing to relocate.</strong></b></p><p class="editor-paragraph"><br></p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><em class="editor-text-italic">Maybe you think that your experience is not where it should be? Or you don’t meet every requirement listed in this job description? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t think they meet every qualification. But we feel that creating meaningful work means embracing different perspectives, which is why at Riyo Games we are focused on building an equitable, diverse, and inclusive studio. If your experience is not perfectly aligned with every requirement in this job description, but you’re interested in this position, we encourage you to apply anyway. We simply want to know what makes you special!</em></p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><em class="editor-text-italic">Riyo Games welcomes and encourages applications from candidates with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in the selection process. If you require disability-related accommodation during the recruitment process, please email contact@riyogames.com. We will consult with all applicants who request disability-related accommodation during the recruitment process to ensure that the accommodation provided takes into account the applicant's individual accessibility needs.</em></p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><br></p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><b><strong class="editor-text-bold">Thank you, we look forward to hearing from you!</strong></b></p><p class="editor-paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><br></p>

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