UI designer

THE ROLE

We are looking for a talented UI designer to design and shape unique, user-centric mobile applications and gaming experiences. Strengths in game UI design and visual effects are highly sought after, plus a background in Unity or similar game development platforms is highly desired.

The ideal candidate is passionate about mobile games and has great creative skills when it comes to thinking outside the box. You will be able to make deliberate design decisions and to translate any given user-experience journey into a smooth, intuitive and immersive interaction.

You are comfortable taking initiative, love solving problems and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment. Great communication between leads/artists/developers/designers is also expected in this role.

We are looking for people who love game development and who are dedicated and innovative. The work environment is flat and everyone’s ideas and saying counts. We seek people who want to be the best in the world.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will be working with a team of artists and mobile developers to create intuitive and immersive user interface (UI) solutions in Unity.
• You will spend most of your time creating, tweaking and implementing complete UI solutions (with all related components) from scratch to release.
• When not doing that, then you’ll spend your time creating, improving and using wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods.
• You will present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.)
• You will continually keep yourself and your team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards.
• You will strive to be a great team player with the ability to collaborate closely with art, developers, and designers.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in games development.
• Has worked on more than two complete projects.
• Able to work in a large range of art styles.
• Can review their own work based on concept art.
• Able to work independently and to produce high quality results.
• Proficient in Unity and knows by heart how to implement your own work into the game.
• Experience using tools such as Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, UXPin, Quartz etc.
• Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc.
• Understanding of basic front-end languages: C#, HTML5, CSS3 Javascript.
• Strong portfolio to be presented and explained during interview.

WHO ARE YOU?

• You have a positive attitude and a commitment to bringing fresh ideas to the team and the game.
• You will need to have a flexible approach to work and a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Ability to operate effectively in and comfortable working in a very fast moving, developing and constantly changing company.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an open team environment.
• Be open to receiving objective, constructive criticism and improving upon it.
• Good at giving constructive criticism to peers.
• Able to partner with peers to help them.
• Able to work independently with efficiency and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Provide accurate time estimates for tasks.
• Accuracy and an eye for detail are essential for this position.
• Loves generating creative ideas with a problem-solving mindset.

Take the chance and join us at our office located in Stockholm, where we offer a fantastic opportunity to be involved in the early phase of mobile AR game development. Do you dare to miss out on this gaming revolution?

Please send your application along with portfolio, references and/or work examples (if applicable) you may want to impress us with via email to [email protected]

We are looking forward to receiving your application!