Senior UI Artist
Unit 2 Games
Unit 2 Games is an award-winning, Facebook-owned games studio based in Leamington Spa, UK. We were formed in 2017 to build Crayta - our dream to make game creation accessible to anyone and everyone.
We've won GamesIndustry.biz's Best Places to Work Award for the last two years, and we'd love to welcome more people to the team.
Most of us are still working remotely because of the ongoing Covid pandemic, and we share Facebook's vision for a fully connected metaverse future where that becomes even easier and more common. In the meantime though, while we all help to shape that future, we'd prefer to see most people (especially less senior members of staff) in the office for at least some of the week, when it's safe to do so. However, we are still open to discussing long-term remote working for highly experienced candidates in senior positions.
We are looking for a Senior UI Artist to design and implement the look & feel of our UI for Crayta.
In this role you will be responsible for building beautiful and dynamic UI for our game and website using HTML, CSS and vector and raster art packages.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the development of UI art throughout the game (using Coherent Gameface)
- Develop (using HTML/CSS) the game’s web presence
- Realise new UI features and their assets, working alongside UX and code developers.
- Improve existing UI features through UX iteration and live service metics, including conversion for new platforms and regions.
- Build strong collaborative working relationships with all members of the team and studio, regardless of discipline or seniority.
- Ensure all UIs pass compliance standards and are as accessible and inclusive as possible.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience making UI for games.
- Highly proficient, with a proven track record of realising UI with CSS & HTML.
- Experienced in the use of packages such as Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator.
- Excellence of artistic ability to rapidly iterate, develop, illustrate and implement to the defined quality, style and specifications.
- Exhibit a solid understanding of graphic design, typography, user experience and interface design.
- Familiarity with a wide range of UI paradigms employed across a variety of game genres, game platforms and their associated player expectations.
Desirable
- Experience in independently delivering UIs and UI assets
- Experience using Coherent Gameface to realise UIs
- Demonstrable experience with Crayta
- Experience of Unreal Engine 4
- Experience working within UGC games (eg Roblox)
- Familiarity with Games as a Service titles
Salary & Benefits
Unit 2 Games is part of the Facebook family so all our employees enjoy a market-leading salary, stock and benefits package. This includes a range of health & wellbeing, family and financial benefits, as well as access to the Life@ Club which enables meaningful connections with Facebook staff around the globe.
Company Ethos
Here is our list of company goals, they help us focus on what’s important to us when it comes to making decisions:
- Create great experiences that people love
- Act ethically to all and at all times
- Make a positive difference
- Put people first, not process
- Communicate honestly and openly
- Empower and support one another and our community
- Have fun!
To apply please email Careers [at] Unit2Games.com. Please note, you must have the right to work within the UK for us to be able to move forwards with your application.