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Senior UI Designer | Candy Crush Saga
1 year ago
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UX & UIJob Description:
Can you take our players on a journey? Do you want to create the world's best mobile games? We need UI talent to help us level up. You'll drive our team forward to deliver unforgettable experiences that delight players across the world.
Your role within our Kingdom
As an experienced and talented Senior UI Designer, you’ll work closely with UX and game designers, user researchers, developers, game artists and technical artists. Collaborating with internal stakeholders, art lead and producers, you will work on the effective and optimised user interface systems and new player- centric features for Candy Crush. With your passion for interaction and communication design, you’ll help us to apply design principles in practice and proactively share your knowledge with other UI designers and game artists.
As a member of the Candy team you’ll participate in a cross- location collaboration. We believe your communication and organisation skills will help you to champion our cooperation on features and information exchange among the teams.
Skills to create thrills
- You have experience in UI design for games
- You have a well- developed sense of visual aesthetics
- You have knowledge of technical constraints and assets optimisation
- You can apply interaction and communication design to your work
- You are confident in analysing design specs
- You are a proactive and reliable team player
- You have good communication and organizational skills
- You are interested in typography and iconography
Bonus Points
- Experience in UI implementation with game engines
- Experience in UI design for mobile games
- Skills in animation, motion design and special effects
- Experience working in an agile project environment
- Experience and interest mentoring others
A portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skill is required.
About King
King is the game developer behind the world- famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top- grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
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 need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com