GUI Artist

Liquidnitro; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Liquidnitro Games in Hyderabad is seeking a proactive GUI Artist to shape the player experience through stunning mobile UI design. You will work with the Art Director and Lead UI/UX Designer to turn wireframes into production-ready interfaces in Unity, ensuring a consistent visual language and high usability across devices.

The role requires 3–5+ years in game UI, a strong portfolio, and proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, and prototyping tools like Figma or Adobe XD.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional UI/GUI design experience in game development, preferably mobile.
• Strong portfolio of mobile game UI design, iconography, typography, and layout.
• Experience delivering production-ready UI art assets for Unity.

Responsibilities

• Design high-quality, appealing UI elements: menus, HUDs, buttons, icons, panels, and typography.
• Translate wireframes and UX specs into polished UI art assets for Unity integration.
• Maintain a consistent visual language and brand across game screens and live-service events.
• Ensure UI artwork is clear, readable, and adaptable to multiple mobile devices and resolutions.
• Prepare, slice, and optimize UI assets with dimensions, 9-slicing, layers, and naming conventions for Unity.
• Collaborate with technical artists to integrate UI assets into the game engine.
• Help create and maintain UI style guides and component libraries.

Skills

UI/UX design

Iconography

Typography

Layout

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Figma

Adobe XD

Unity

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Figma

Adobe XD

Unity

Job description

Liquidnitro Games is India’s flagship liveservices and game production company, founded by industry veterans with aproven track record in producing massively successful games and live services.We offer world-class game development expertise to power creativity, growth,and profitability in games for companies, studios, and publishers worldwide.

What’s in it?

As a GUI Artist, you will help shape theplayer experience by designing visually stunning, intuitive, and highlyfunctional user interfaces for our mobile games. Working under the guidance ofthe Art Director and Lead UI/UX Designer, you will create polished UI elements,menus, HUDs and iconography. The role requires a strong understanding of visualhierarchy, usability, mobile game aesthetics, and player-centric design. Youwill work closely with Game Designers, Engineers, and 2D Artists to turnwireframes into high-quality, production-ready interfaces that are implementedseamlessly into Unity.

Responsibilities

• Design and create high-quality,appealing user interface elements, including menus, HUDs, buttons, icons,panels, pop-ups, and typography.
• Translate wireframes, userflows, and UX specifications into fully polished, production-ready UI artassets.
• Maintain a consistent visuallanguage, brand identity, and style across all game screens and live-serviceevents.
• Ensure all UI artwork is clear,readable, and accessible on various mobile devices and screen resolutions,paying strong attention to visual hierarchy.
• Prepare, slice, and optimize UIassets with appropriate dimensions, 9-slicing, layers, and naming conventionsfor efficient Unity implementation.
• Collaborate with technicalartists to integrate UI assets into the game engine, ensuring they functionflawlessly and match the intended design.
• Assist in creating andmaintaining UI style guides, visual documentation, and component libraries.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of professionalexperience as a UI Artist, GUI Artist, or similar role in game development,with experience on at least 1 shipped title.
• Strong portfolio showcasingexceptional game UI design, iconography, typography, and layout skillsspecifically geared toward mobile platforms.
• Expert-level proficiency inAdobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and UI prototyping/wireframing tools (e.g.,Figma, Adobe XD).
• Solid understanding of userexperience (UX) principles, user flow, and player interaction within mobilegaming.
• Strong understanding ofpreparing and optimizing 2D UI assets for game engines, particularly Unity.
• Experience working within anestablished art direction and matching a defined visual style consistently.
• Excellent communication andproblem-solving skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between art andtechnical implementation.
• Proactive, self-motivated,detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced live-serviceenvironment.

Bonus

• Experience working on casual,mid-core, social, or live-service mobile titles.
• Hands-on experience with UnityUI (UGUI), prefabs, layout groups, and animation timelines.
• Develop subtle animations,transitions, and particle effects for UI elements to enhance the game's dynamicfeel and user feedback.
• Experience with motion graphicsand UI animation using tools like Adobe After Effects.
• Familiarity with AI-assistedideation used responsibly to accelerate exploration while maintaining strongartistic ownership and quality.