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