Senior UI Artist

Senior UI Artist

JOB LOCATION: Navi Mumbai (Belapur)

Key responsibilities:

• Create innovative and visually appealing UI designs for mobile games that align with the game's theme, genre, and target audience.
• Develop intuitive and user-friendly interface layouts, menus, buttons, and navigation systems to enhance gameplay and accessibility.
• Design high-quality graphics, icons, and visual assets for various in-game elements, including characters, environments, items, and special effects.
• Collaborate with artists, designers, and developers to ensure cohesive and consistent visual style, branding, and storytelling across all game elements.
• Create prototypes, wireframes, and mock-ups to visualize and iterate UI/UX designs, gather feedback, and refine the user interface based on user testing and data-driven insights.
• Design and implement engaging animations and motion graphics for UI transitions, effects, and interactive elements to enhance user engagement and immersion.
• Optimize UI assets, graphics, and animations for mobile devices to ensure smooth performance, fast loading times, and seamless integration with the game engine and platform requirements.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including game designers, developers, and product managers, to align on project goals, requirements, and timelines.
• Communicate effectively and present UI/UX design concepts, ideas, and solutions to stakeholders, gather feedback, and incorporate changes as needed to achieve the desired results.
• Research various visual materials to define and improve the visual style.
• Should have an end-to-end, hands-on understanding of game front-end UX and HUD systems.

Experience And Qualifications

• You have a BA degree in art media, graphic design, or equivalent relevant experience
• Relevant experience in game UI development demonstrated by an online portfolio.
• You should have at least 8+ years of relevant experience at Mobile /videogame development studio/s.
• You can adapt your style and technique to suit the requirements of mobile game development.
• You have a strong understanding of composition, color, lighting, perspective UX, and UI.
• You know how to work effectively within a team and technical parameters.
• You have a proven aesthetic eye, Detail sensitivity, and strong design sensibilities.
• You have a passion for the game industry and an understanding of market trends and styles.
• You can work well under pressure, able to work on multiple projects in parallel.
• You are an experienced user of Adobe products like Photoshop. Illustrator etc.
• You love managing/supporting/mentoring your fellow artists!

Bonus Experience

• An understanding of Unity3D’s pipeline for asset integration
• Ability to bring game objects to life through animation or visual effects using Spine