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UI Artist
Location
Germany
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
UI Artist
Babil Games
• Take end-to-end ownership of UI for features and live ops content: wireframes, mock-ups, user flows, prototypes, original icons and illustrations, final visuals, and in-engine implementation • Craft polished, on-brand UI art from scratch: icons, illustrations, banners, offer images, event key art and other custom visual assets that make screens feel premium and lovingly hand-made • Work closely with our sister game Big Farm Homestead: understand their UI designs and underlying intent, adapt them to Sunshine Islands audience and visual language, and share learnings back with the SI team • Integrate UI into Unity yourself - building and wiring prefabs, anchors, layouts, responsive scaling - in close cooperation with programmers and tech artists • Bring UI to life with animation in Unity (Timeline, DOTween, Animator) to create polished transitions, feedback and juice • Maintain and extend our UI design system - including the icon and illustration library - to keep visual and interaction consistency across the product • Apply UI/UX best practices for mobile devices and advocate for the player across the team • Collaborate closely with game design, art, balancing, QA and engineering - challenging UX where it can be better, and unblocking others when UI is the bottleneck • Keep an eye on the latest tooling (including AI-assisted workflows) and bring improvements back to our processes
Job Requirements
- Several years of professional experience in UI/UX design and UI production in the mobile gaming industry
- Strong artistic skills with a portfolio of UI artwork: original icons, illustrations, banners and event/offer visuals you have produced from concept to final asset
- Proven hands-on experience integrating UI in Unity (UGUI, prefabs, anchors, layouts, responsive scaling for mobile)
- Strong UI animation skills in Unity using Timeline, DOTween, Animator or equivalent
- Proficient in Figma for design, handoff and design-system work
- Expert-level proficiency in Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator) - able to deliver high-quality icons, illustrations, banners, offer images and marketing-adjacent UI art that meets the visual bar of a polished mobile game
- Comfortable with Git (or equivalent VCS): branching, merging UI assets, resolving conflicts without drama
- Excellent communication skills in English and a strong collaborative mindset - able to work effectively across disciplines and time zones, explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and proactively raise issues early
- Solid understanding of UI/UX information architecture, interaction design and industry standards for mobile games
- A self-motivated individual with a passion for mobile and casual games, strong analytical skills and a strong customer focus
- Additional skills to impress us: Curiosity for and hands-on experience with AI image-generation and AI-assisted design tooling, with ideas on how to bring it into a production pipeline
- Experience with UI shaders / Shader Graph for stylized UI effects
- Familiarity with Jira and Trello for tracking UI/art tickets
- Completed degree in Media Psychology, Graphic Design, Game Design or a similar subject
- Sample work showcasing UI animation and shader experiments in Unity
Benefits
- Full flexibility: Work remotely or come to our modern office in Hamburg city center close to the Alster
- Work-life-balance: Competitive annual leave and flexible working hours
- Join a supportive team in a pragmatic, yet challenging environment, with flat hierarchies and state-of-the-art technologies
- Work in a multicultural environment with multidisciplinary and experienced colleagues from the entire product lifecycle in a culture of continuous development and learning opportunities
- Find sparring partners within game design
- Team building: Strong collaboration between the teams, regular studio events onsite, snacks and drinks available at the office
- Contribution to public transport ticket (Deutschlandticket) for Germany-based staff
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