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Senior UI Artist
2 years ago
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Job Description:
We are growing and looking to hire a highly talented Senior User Interface Designer with proven skills to create outstanding experiences for our players.
Your role within our Kingdom
You will be creating high quality game layouts and be responsible for producing an appealing and intuitive user interface for our mass- casual social games. As a great team player you will be part of a highly experienced, entrepreneurial and successful team.
In short you will be:
- Creating and implementing appealing, user friendly, innovative and crisp user interfaces (e.g. menus, buttons, icons, visual hierarchy, animation etc.) with a focus on usability and freemium best- practices;
- Working closely with a creative game team in an agile environment to create interfaces that are flexible enough to evolve with the needs of a Live game.
Skills to create thrills
With a passion for games, you also possess great communication and organizing skills to help you work in a project group and be comfortable in an agile environment at a fast pace. You are also Versatile and prepared to tackle many different kinds of tasks, ranging from creative challenges to mass production.
We think that you are:
- Expert in user interface design, with a good knowledge of UX principles and usability best practices;
- Creative problem solver;
- Highly experienced with Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Sketch,...
- Talented with a well- developed sense of colour and composition and a substantial interest in form and typography;
- We assume that you have several years of relevant professional experience, but people of extreme talent will always be considered;
- Last but not least, you have a portfolio showing your talent and flexibility.
Tasty bonus skills:
- Previous experience in social games and/or Games as a Service highly appreciated
- Experience with animations
- Technical knowledge of design systems
About King
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch.
We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the
company.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players – and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!
Applications needs to be in English.
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