Senior Mobile UI Motion & VFX Artist — Remote

UserWise Services; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work 100%

Competitive USD salaries

Paid Time Off

Performance Bonus

Annual performance reviews

Job summary

UserWise is seeking a Senior UI Motion & VFX Artist to elevate a premium mobile F2P game. You will own motion, feedback, and visual polish for UI animations, rewards, transitions, and effects, partnering with UI/UX, art, design, product, and engineering to keep gameplay responsive and engaging on mobile.

You’ll bring a strong portfolio of mobile UI motion, with Unity experience, and familiarity with After Effects, Spine, or similar tools.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience creating high-quality UI motion, animation, and/or VFX for mobile F2P games, typically with 5+ years of relevant game industry experience.
• Strong portfolio showing polished reward feedback, celebration moments, transitions, and animated UI systems.
• Strong understanding of animation principles, including timing, easing, anticipation, follow-through, impact, staging, and rhythm.

Responsibilities

• Create polished UI animations, transitions, and interaction feedback for mobile gameplay, menus, events, offers, and reward flows.
• Design reward and celebration VFX such as coin bursts, glows, sparkles, light sweeps, multipliers, prize reveals, and win moments.
• Bring static UI screens to life with strong timing, pacing, anticipation, impact, and readability.
• Partner with UI/UX Designers to improve hierarchy, clarity, and emotional impact through motion.
• Partner with Game Designers and Product to reinforce key player motivations such as rewards, progression, streaks, bonuses, and achievement.
• Work with Unity Engineers to implement, tune, and optimize UI animation and effects in-game.
• Help create reusable motion patterns and feedback systems that can scale across features.
• Maintain high visual quality while respecting mobile performance, memory, and production constraints.

Skills

UI motion

VFX

UI animation

Animation principles

Unity

After Effects

Spine

Lottie

Particle systems

Tools

Unity

After Effects

Spine

Lottie

Job description

UserWise is seeking a Senior UI Motion & VFX Artist to elevate a premium mobile F2P game. You will own motion, feedback, and visual polish for UI animations, rewards, transitions, and effects, partnering with UI/UX, art, design, product, and engineering to keep gameplay responsive and engaging on mobile.

You’ll bring a strong portfolio of mobile UI motion, with Unity experience, and familiarity with After Effects, Spine, or similar tools.