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UI Art Director

About PeopleFun
PeopleFun is a rapidly growing studio where development teams thrive on collaboration, creativity, teamwork and fun. Our mission is to create the best family-friendly casual games in mobile and have a great time doing it! Our current games are played by over 25 million players each month and include Wordscapes, the #1 word game.

PeopleFun is looking for a UI Art Director who will work with Art, Design, and Engineering to help define, evolve, and strengthen the visual direction of all user interface designs across our PeopleFun portfolio of games. This is a hands-on position that unifies master craftsmanship and graphic design artistry with leadership capabilities, converging to create rewarding and memorable experiences for players across our current and upcoming titles.

This role places emphasis on striving for consistency, clarity, and delight for players, while always delivering incredible visual quality and creative problem solving for the team. We have an amazing versatile team of artists atPeopleFun, and we want to add someone with superpowers on the UI side of Art, with tremendous industry knowledge and experience to direct the User Interface art/ design across our products, and push the envelope in our best-in-class games that reach tens of millions of players.

Important: To be considered, please provide a cover letter to explain, in your own words, your interest in this game developer position and why you feel you'd be a great fit.

Desired Skills:

• Strong graphic design, sense of composition, iconography, color theory, and typography
• Mastery of animation fundamentals, motion design, pace, and timing
• Deep knowledge across design and prototyping software
• Impeccable communication skills, ability to clearly verbalize ideas as well as help others interpret and illustrate ideas.
• You’re user-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative
• Actively seeks out additional ways to continue to grow as a leader, and designer in our evolving industry.

Requirements

• Create and help maintain the visual ‘UI Brand’ across all projects (w/ the Art Director)
• Constantly identify key areas within the current UIs to improve and innovate
• Quickly prototype, visualize and pitch ideas across teams
• Lead and develop interface designs and visual design language within the team
• Create unified direction and style guides per project
• Work with Internal and External Artists to help follow through with content needs
• Work with internal Designers and Engineers to implement UI
• Mastery of UI art pipelines and implementation into the Unity Engine

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Performance bonuses
• 401K with 3% employer matching
• Family friendly culture
• Flex PTO policy
• Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
• On-Site Gym and free Yoga classes
• $1,000 annual game device and IAP budget
• Free drinks & snacks, catered lunch on Fridays
• Happy hours and social events
• Company trips

PeopleFun is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.