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Senior UI UX Artist - RuneScape

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior UI/UX Artist to join a growing team on our iconic game RuneScape! This role gives a rare opportunity for a Senior Artist to directly apply their craft and expertise to deliver and guide others to produce, a wide range of intuitive, high quality and impactful user interfaces.

Working within our talented art team, you will:

- Champion a healthy environment to unleash potential in others and facilitate career progression within your discipline.

- Split time effectively between leadership and task contribution.

- Collaborate directly with Art Directors, Leads and Designers, to set and maintain a cohesive visual style and quality within your discipline, and document any guides, creative briefs, or pipelines in support of that goal.

- Inspire your team and others by being hands-on and performing the duties of your discipline when needed.

- Provide strong craft leadership within their discipline and effectively time manage yourself and others in your team to deliver.

- Set mechanisms to review, critique and guide quality ensuring alignment to the art direction and common standard of quality in your given area of ownership.

- Liaise with production and external development to ensure your area of ownership has a solid and timely work stream including hiring/ growth.

- Collaborate on and translate UX wireframe designs into high quality UI layout and artwork

- Pre-visualize UI via mock-ups, prototypes, and animations.

- Collaborate with Game Design to ensure a UX that is legible, fun and intuitive.

- Present and back up your design thinking to peers and the team.

We’re mainly looking for UI Artists that can demonstrate to an exceptional level a range of styles and subject matter applied to their work. Portfolio examples that clearly showcase your understanding of layout, spatial awareness, composition, use of colour, contrast, and visual design. We’re especially interested in seeing how you translate design requirements into final deliverables and your process along the way, plus examples of where you’ve helped guide others to do the same or level up their own artwork.

WHAT WE NEED:

• Exceptional knowledge of the art fundamentals and meticulous attention to detail.
• Professional experience designing highest quality UI for games or apps.
• Solid understanding of game development processes.
• Mastery of industry standard tools such as Adobe Suite.
• Proven ability, as demonstrated in your portfolio, to create high quality 2D assets.
• Expertise with principles of design (alignment, balance, proportion, contrast, space, etc).
• Excellent understanding of layout, typography, logo and icon design.
• Understanding of cross-platform implementation and technical limitations.
• User Experience-focused design thinking.
• Awareness of current trends in UI and Graphic Design.
• Ability to translate and evaluate art direction into final asset.
• Experience of building and recruiting into an existing team.
• Previous experience leading, mentoring, or coaching others to success within craft.
• Solid experience at levelling up junior to senior artists through teaching and mentoring.
• Comfortable with running individual, group review and critique sessions.
• Willingness to transition between asset production and line management.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with the capability to successfully work across multiple teams.
• A positive collaborative and professional working attitude.
• Strong English skills, both written and verbal.

EVEN BETTER IF:

• Traditional art skills.
• Experience of working with contractors, outsource art vendors, and co-devstudios.
• Ability to animate UI prototypes in After Effects or similar software.
• Exposure to working in a ‘live’ game team after launch.
• We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work, along with breakdowns in an online format such as personal website, blog, Github,
• Artstation or other online albums

A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.

Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.

Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.

Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.

Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.

- Flexible Working

- Bonus Scheme

- Private Health Care

- Gym Membership

- Monthly Energy Allowance

- Generous Pension Contributions

- Life Insurance

- Free Cycle Repair

- Income Protection

- Dental Plan

- Free Fruit and Drinks

- Subsidised Canteen

Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!

Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages 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.