Lead UI Artist

Warner Bros. Entertainment; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A major entertainment company in London is seeking a Lead UI Artist to enhance gameplay experiences in their next AAA title. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in UX and accessibility design, along with a passion for creating high-quality user interfaces. This hybrid role involves collaboration with developers and artists, requiring leadership in a AAA game environment. Join a dynamic team aimed at delivering exceptional experiences for players.

Qualifications

• Exceptional knowledge and application of UX, Accessibility & player-focused design principles.
• Demonstrable graphic design skills in layout, typography, and color theory.
• Experience in AAA game leadership role.
• Knowledge of current interaction and design trends in games.
• Direct experience working within a AAA game engine.

Responsibilities

• Establish UI art direction and maintain consistent style throughout the project.
• Communicate requirements and delivery status of UI features.
• Collaborate with artists and programmers on UI feature implementation.
• Manage documentation for UI/UX features.
• Supervise outsource UI Art teams to ensure delivery.

Skills

UX and Accessibility design principles

Professional graphic design skills

Leadership in AAA games

Figma and Adobe software proficiency

Unreal Engine familiarity

Motion graphic skills (Adobe After Effects)

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Unreal Engine

Job description

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Overview

Rocksteady is looking for a Lead UI Artist to join our dedicated and collaborative team, who is ready for the challenge of bringing our next AAA title to life. The ideal candidate will possess both experience with, and passion for, creating high quality user interfaces that enable an intuitive, accessible, and enjoyable gameplay experience. Collaborating with a team of developers, this role will be key to our mission to deliver an exceptional experience for all our players.

This role will be expected to work in a hybrid pattern, joining the company for two collaboration days a week, each Tuesday and Wednesday.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Work with the Art Director to establish UI art direction, brand, and style guides – maintaining a consistent style throughout the project.
• Work with Directors and Leads to determine requirements and development of all UI features, communicating status of deliverables proactively.
• Collaborate and consult with Artists, Designers, and Programmers in the implementation of UI features – iterating on design and user feedback to polish and improve features.
• Manage documentation and flow diagrams for UI/UX features.
• Delegate and maintain an equitable workload across the UI Art team, communicating with Project Leadership and stakeholders on deliverables.
• Create opportunities for the UI Artists to expand their skillset and knowledge, understanding their career vectors and developing growth pathways for each member of the team.
• Be an advocate for open feedback and possess a growth mindset.
• Explore and provide solutions when the UI visual direction conflicts with the needs of the game design or technical limitations.
• Review workflow and tools in the UI production pipeline, to proactively identify bottlenecks or areas for improvement to developer efficiency.
• Collaborate and supervise outsource UI Art teams, to ensure delivery of work to specification.
• Drive a high-performance culture and support and manage our UI team on a day-to-day basis, including maintaining team motivation and engagement.

Qualifications & Experience

• Able to demonstrate an exceptional knowledge and application of UX, Accessibility & player-focused design principles – through work in complex game projects, ideally with AAA targets.
• Demonstrable professional graphic design skills – particularly layout, typography, and colour theory application.
• Proficient experience in a AAA games leadership role.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Figma and Adobe software for 2D Design. Knowledge of current interaction and design trends in Games, particularly across PC & Console titles.
• Direct experience working within a AAA game engine.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine and node-based visual scripting.
• Knowledge of Unreal materials/shaders for UI texture optimisation.
• Motion graphic skills are a bonus, i.e. Adobe After Effects.
• Knowledge of industry standard Game Development 3D software is helpful.
• Experienced in overall Game development pipelines and process across disciplines.

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.