Senior UI Artist | New Games

Xbox Media Solutions (Formerly Activision Blizzard Media); Barcelona; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative art team

Job summary

King is seeking a Senior UI Artist in Barcelona to shape the visual interface for a new mobile IP. You will craft polished UI assets, icons, and panels, collaborating with UX, design, and tech to ensure production-ready results.

Strong typography and illustration skills are required, with Unity and Blender familiarity a plus. The role emphasizes readability, polish, and alignment with a cute, high-quality visual tone.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating high-quality UI art for mobile or games.
• Excellent iconography with readability at small sizes.
• Strong illustration skills for stylized, playful visuals.
• Solid layout, typography, color, and visual clarity理解.
• Experience with Unity UI and asset preparation for implementation.
• Knowledge of 3D principles to support UI presentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce high-quality mobile UI assets for menus, HUDs, events.
• Create clear icons, buttons, panels, badges, and interface elements.
• Develop illustrative UI elements aligned with the game's visual identity.
• Work from wireframes and art direction to final UI visuals.
• Maintain consistency across screens and feature updates.
• Prepare assets for Unity with proper formats, naming, and optimization.
• Collaborate with UX, design, tech, and art direction for production-ready UI.
• Review in-game implementation and refine visuals.
• Contribute ideas to improve readability and usability.

Skills

Strong portfolio

Iconography

Illustration

Layout & typography

Mobile UI

Unity UI

Blender

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

Education

N/A

Tools

Unity

Blender

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

Craft:

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior UI Artist to help shape and produce the visual interface for our a new IP centred mobile game

This role sits between Art Direction, Game Design, UX, and Tech. Your goal is to create clear, polished, playful, and production-ready UI assets that support the game experience and match the project’s cute, quirky, and high-quality visual tone.

The ideal candidate has strong graphic design foundations, excellent iconography and illustration skills, and a good understanding of how UI is implemented in Unity. Knowledge of 3D workflows is important, and Blender experience is a plus.

Your role within the Kingdom

• Design and produce high-quality UI assets for mobile gameplay, menus, HUDs, events, and live features.

• Create clear, readable, and polished icons, buttons, panels, badges, frames, and interface elements.

• Develop illustrative UI elements that support the game’s visual identity.

• Work from wireframes, UX flows, and art direction to create final UI visuals.

• Maintain consistency across UI screens, systems, and feature updates.

• Prepare assets for Unity implementation with correct formats, naming, slicing, and optimization.

• Support the creation of UI style guides, templates, and documentation.

• Collaborate with UX, Design, Tech, and Art Direction to ensure UI is beautiful, functional, and production-ready.

• Review in-game implementation and help polish final results.

• Contribute ideas to improve readability, usability, and visual quality.

Collaboration and Integration

• Work closely with Art Direction to maintain the project’s visual style.

• Collaborate with Game Designers and UX Designers to support clear player flows.

• Work with Unity developers to ensure UI assets integrate correctly.

• Coordinate with 2D, 3D, VFX, and animation teams when UI requires cross-discipline support.

• Communicate clearly with internal teams and respond well to feedback.

• Support production priorities while keeping a strong eye on quality and consistency.

Skills to create thrills

• Strong portfolio showing high-quality UI art for games or mobile products.

• Excellent iconography skills with strong readability at small sizes.

• Strong illustration skills, especially for stylized, playful, or polished game visuals.

• Solid understanding of layout, composition, typography, color, hierarchy, and visual clarity.

• Experience with Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent tools.

• Experience creating UI assets for Unity.

• Good knowledge of 3D principles and how 3D assets can support UI presentation.

• Ability to prepare clean, optimized, implementation-ready assets.

• Good understanding of mobile UI constraints and readability.

• Experience working with art direction and established visual styles.

• Strong communication skills and ability to take feedback constructively.

• Good sense of polish, consistency, and quality control.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on casual, mobile, or family-friendly games.

• Experience with Blender.

• Experience creating UI mockups, style guides, and asset libraries.

• Knowledge of UI animation or motion design.

• Comfort working with both 2D and 3D pipelines.

• Experience supporting live game features, events, or seasonal content.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to help shape the UI visual quality of a major global IP on mobile.

• A collaborative art team focused on craft, clarity, and polish.

• The chance to contribute to a playful and highly visible game experience.

• A healthy work culture that values trust, ownership, and teamwork.

Success in this role means UI assets are clear, beautiful, consistent with the art direction, and smoothly integrated into the game.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.