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Lead UI/UX Artist – New Sci-fi FPS IP
3 years ago
Creative Assembly's award-winning team behind Alien Isolation are exploring new frontiers with a brand new and exciting First-Person Shooter IP.
Creative Assembly are looking for a creative and passionate individual who enjoys working with designers and programmers to translate game design requirements into great user experiences. You will be responsible for the visual communication of information to the player across the game.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, accomplished UI Artist to make their mark on the new, undisclosed IP from Creative Assembly’s multi-award-winning team.
Working with the Art Director, the Lead UI/UX Artist will lead and mentor a small team to create a world class user experience and a uniquely identifiable visual style.
Key Responsibilities
As a Lead UI/UX artist, you will be an enthusiastic developer who has a full appreciation and understanding how excellent UI can positively impact on the player experience.
On a day-to-day basis, you will:
- Be consulting widely to gather UI requirements. Such as developing wireframes, maintaining consistent UX patterns, iterating designs through prototyping
- Develop style guides / visual designs and managing the final implementation to ensure the designs are flawless and frictionless
- Lead a team with passion and enthusiasm, giving effective direction and feedback to experienced artists and mentor developing junior artists
- Demonstrate your expertise through an outstanding portfolio, sharing artistic flair with a keen eye for composition, clarity, and usability
- Communicate effectively, present ideas confidently and champion the UX strategy across the team
Good organisation, time management and prioritisation skills are key to this role.Knowledge, Skill and Experience
Essential
- Ability to communicate and present ideas effectively
- Demonstrable experience of leading and developing other artists
- Proven UI/UX experience from concept to delivery on at least one shipped title
- Excellent graphic design skills – typography, iconography, layout, colour theory
- Expert in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Motion design experience
- Solid understanding of UX methodologies and how they apply to game UI design
- Wireframing experience for console games
- Good technical knowledge of UI development practices
- Exceptional UI portfolio
- An appreciation for games, with discerning eye for good user interface design
Desirable
- An understanding of user research methods
- Experience with a 3D package such as 3dsmax or Maya
- HMTL5, CSS, Javascript experience
Creative Assembly is about the right people making the best games. We are united through our values; Quality, Focus, Teamwork, Respect and Trust.
We house many talented people, from trainees to industry veterans who constantly challenge us and make sure we are striving for the best within our games and our studio life.
Winner of multiple Best Place to Work Awards, we have studio sites in Horsham UK and Sofia Bulgaria, including a number of bespoke state-of-the-art audio suites and a dedicated motion capture site.
Currently we are working fully remotely, and we continue to assess the COVID-19 situation with the safety of our staff our number one priority. We are still actively recruiting and onboarding new staff each week. Our expert IT and HR teams will set you up with everything you need to join remotely whether you will need to relocate to the UK (or within the UK) now, or at a later date.
We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:
- Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents, with support throughout the process from our dedicated Relocation Specialists
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
- Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, and all UK Bank holidays
- Annual discretionary studio bonus
- Join our award-winning education and social responsibility programme; the Legacy Project, as an industry ambassador to mentor and educate others
- Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including; SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
- Opportunity to join our Diversity and Inclusion Network – an employee-led group
- Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site
- Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
- Free breakfast every day - toast, bagels, pancakes, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, smoothies, juices, milkshakes and more in our fully stocked kitchen*
- Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme and onsite confidential sessions
- In-studio heavily subsidised massage therapy*
- Discounts for home technology, travel insurance, corporate gym membership, cinema tickets, holidays, trips out and Ikea vouchers, and many local businesses including estate agents
- Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer Festival, Christmas Party plus a separate Children’s Christmas Party. We also have Cinema days and wrap parties for game releases*
- Studio community activities such as free Japanese lessons, life drawing, creative writing, Pilates, Walking Challenges, Couch to 5k, basketball, game and movie evenings, board game club, 5-a-side football, CA Choir, Sword fighting (yes, sword fighting) and loads more*
*some of the above in-studio benefits are on hold while we work remotely during COVID-19. Our studio sites have disabled access. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
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