Lead UI Artist — 4-Day Week, Remote Options

GamesMarkt

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 65,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

4-Day Work Week

Remote work 2 days/week

Excellent salary

Maternity/Paternity leave

Mental health support

Career development

Snacks & drinks

Social events

Job summary

Hutch, a London-based mobile gaming studio, seeks a Lead UI Artist to own and deliver visually impressive interfaces for free-to-play titles. You’ll partner with UX, Art Direction and Design to translate requirements into sleek user experiences, guiding a small team to high-quality UI across our live projects.

You will collaborate closely with engineers, evolve the design system, and mentor teammates while keeping the IP and branding consistent.

Qualifications

Proven UI Art leadership experience within games on multiple titles, live product.
High quality visual art and design pieces in portfolio, with strong visual design skills.
Experience creating, maintaining and evolving a design system for a digital product.
Experience from concept to wireframes to functioning prototypes.
Understand UX/communication design conventions and current trends.
Strong visual language, consistency across project areas.
Unity experience with asset implementation and technical improvements.
Proficiency in Figma & Adobe Creative Cloud.
Familiarity with AI tools and AI-generated imagery.
Experience collaborating with IP brand holders & licensing teams.

Responsibilities

Lead the UI team, collaborating with Art Direction, UX, Design and Product to deliver top-tier UI designs.
Create and maintain style guides, asset language and project structure in Figma and Unity, ensuring IP compliance.
Produce high-quality UI artwork and source assets in line with the game’s visual style.
Maintain visual consistency and a design system across the project in partnership with the team.
Mentor the team, identify training needs and guide career progression.
Coordinate 360 communications across teams and manage expectations.
Work with engineers to implement performant UI in Unity and stay updated on pipelines and trends.
Lead team presentations and design meetings; plan work with production, balancing scope and milestones.
Promote cross-collaboration with wider company and other projects.
Drive UI design decisions in close collaboration with stakeholders.