UI Art Lead

Aristocrat; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a UI Art Lead, where you will shape the visual experience of a leading mobile game. This role involves leading a talented group of artists, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring a high-quality user interface that enhances gameplay. You will have the opportunity to influence the game's artistic direction while fostering a culture of growth and creativity within your team. This innovative company values inclusivity and personal development, making it an exciting place to advance your career in the gaming industry.

Qualifications

• Expert in UI tools like Photoshop and Figma with strong mentoring skills.
• Experience in Unity projects and creating high-quality UI for mobile games.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of artists to create and maintain the UI for a game.
• Collaborate with UX designers and developers to enhance the game experience.

Skills

Photoshop

Figma

Unity

UI design

Mentoring

Prototyping

UX principles

Illustration knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Art or Design

Tools

Unity

UI development tools

Job description

We’re looking for a talented artist to join as a UI Art Lead on one of our main titles in Product Madness. In this role you will be responsible for creating and maintaining the User Interface of the game from initial conception to implementation.

You will lead and manage a small team of talented artists, setting a clear vision, building trust, providing consistent feedback, and understanding each artist's goals and needs, helping to establish a clear path for everyone to achieve their goals.

You will also work alongside UX designers, technical artists, developers and product managers to ensure the UI supports the game experience. You will partner with production to develop high level execution plans and own the execution strategy.

As UI Art Lead, you are expected to develop the overall look and feel of the game, balancing visual satisfaction and gameplay clarity to ensure amazing experiences. You will push art quality where players see it and know when to pull back on quality where they won’t, being hands-on sometimes and contributing to the artwork benchmark.

What We're Looking For

1. Expert and flexible using leading UI development tools from Photoshop to Figma
2. Expert on hands-off: creating documentation, exporting assets and presenting
3. Great at tasks refinement, prioritization and building work plans and timelines
4. Experienced on mentoring other UI designers and plan their growth
5. Experienced working on Unity projects, from the hands off to asset integration
6. Ability of study existing interfaces and suggest upgrades
7. Ability to create working prototypes
8. Knowledge of the modern casual gaming market and UI trends
9. Awareness of UX principles
10. Awareness of illustration knowledge (proportion, composition and color)
11. Professional level of English.

Your portfolio shows:

1. Very high quality UI work for mobile games that shows pieces of interfaces, logos, icons and typography
2. A selection that shows confidence tackling various styles and formats
3. Advanced structural UI design examples (wireframe, mockups and animatics).

Why Product Madness?

As part of the Aristocrat family, we share their mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play, with a world-class team who creates top-grossing, leading titles in the social casino genre, including Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino.

With 800 team members across the globe, Product Madness is headquartered in London, with offices in Barcelona, Gdańsk, Lviv, Montreal and a remote team spanning the USA, making us a truly global powerhouse.

We live by our People First principle. Regardless of where, when, or how they work, our team members have opportunities to elevate their careers, and grow alongside us. We take pride in fostering an inclusive culture, where our people are encouraged to be their very best, every day.

But don’t just take our word for it. In 2024, we made the Global Inspiring Workplace Awards list, and won a bronze award at the Stevies for Great Employers in the ‘Employer of the Year - Media and Entertainment’ category.

So, what’s stopping you?

Our Values

1. People First
   We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.
2. MAD for More
   Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.
3. Champion Together
   We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.
4. Globally Inclusive
   We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.
5. Customer Focused
   We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers. Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!

Travel Expectations
Up to 25%

Additional Information

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.