Technical UI Designer

Rebellion; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the gaming industry seeks a talented Technical UI Designer to join their UI team. This role is crucial for creating innovative UI systems, collaborating with a diverse team, and contributing to exciting unannounced projects at their Oxford headquarters, with competitive benefits and a creative work environment.

Benefits

22 days holidays + Christmas closure

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

EAP for Mental Health Support

Qualifications

• A solid portfolio showcasing various examples of your Technical UI expertise.
• Familiarity with game engines such as Unity, Unreal, or similar platforms.
• Experience using node-based visual scripting editors.

Responsibilities

• Be the point of contact in a visual scripting toolset, creating core UI systems for unannounced projects.
• Implement the most complex UI features yourself, adding your own ideas to help drive toward quality.
• Build components that can be used by the rest of the UI team to implement complex UI designs.

Skills

Technical UI expertise

UI/UX standards

Responsive layouts

Profiling and optimizing runtime performance

Tools

Unity

Unreal

Node-based visual scripting editors

Job description

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We are seeking a talented Technical UI Designer to join our UI team and contribute to our upcoming unannounced projects!

In this role, you'll be instrumental in crafting the essential UI systems for ongoing projects, collaborating closely with UI designers and artists to tackle challenging and engaging UI obstacles.

This opportunity will not only enable you to become proficient in a new engine but also allow you to influence its evolution by establishing best practices and pioneering innovative approaches for our future projects!

At Rebellion, we believe in collaboration over confinement. As a member of the UI team, you'll be pivotal in creating effective, intricate, and aesthetically pleasing UIs. You won't just be laying the groundwork for projects; you'll also have the chance to design interfaces yourself and contribute your ideas, collaborating with a diverse range of talents and experiences. We understand that great UI isn't achieved through a single perspective, this is why we seek the best collaborators to create unforgettable experiences for ourselves and our players!

This role is based at our riverside headquarters in Oxford, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

Responsibilities:

• Be the point of contact in a visual scripting toolset, creating core UI systems for unannounced projects.
• Implement the most complex UI features yourself, adding your own ideas to help drive toward quality.
• Build components that can be used by the rest of the UI team to implement complex UI designs.
• Work with technical artists and tools programmers to actively improve the toolset for the UI team.

Requirements

• A solid portfolio showcasing various examples of your Technical UI expertise.
• A deep enthusiasm for UI/UX standards and a keen eye for best practices.
• Familiarity with game engines such as Unity, Unreal, or similar platforms.
• Experience using node-based visual scripting editors.
• Able to implement responsive layouts.
• Experience planning, implementing, and sharing core UI elements for use by other UI designers.
• Knowledge of profiling and optimising to improve runtime performance.
• Having experience in mobile UI implementation would be a great plus!

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers

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