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Senior UI/UX Designer

About the role

We are looking for an experienced UI/UX designer to work on finding solutions to complex systems with a focus on visual clarity and design cohesiveness. UI/UX designers collaborate with production, engineering and creative leaders to establish the first and most important point of contact with the players, the User Interface (UI) and to create an amazing experience for our players by championing player-centric design in creating the UX vision and strategy for the game.

Who you are:

• Craft Knowledge: You use your knowledge and taste in composition, typography, colors schemes and iconography to create highly polished assets and build a consistent visual interface with wide accessibility for an excellent and comprehensive player experience
• Systemic Design: You have experience designing assets as components and styles within libraries with great organizational file structure You also know how to develop and maintain a dynamic Design System carrying assets ready to implement
• Team Player: You are a self-motivated team player who proactively seeks feedback and shares knowledge
  Software Expertise: You know your way through Adobe Suite
• UX Experience: Apart from being an exceptional Visual Designer, you understand what it takes to create amazing experiences for the players, being able to prototype, create screen flows and wireframes
• Organization: You understand that complex projects need meticulous planning and documentation from backlog to pipeline production. You know how to organize your delivery, having a very approachable structure of files and efficient implementation flow to the engine

What you'll do

• Collaboration: You will work closely with Art Directors to help establish a cohesive look for our games. You will also work with various other disciplines to deliver user-friendly experiences to our players
• Visual Style: Creating and Maintaining visual style guides of the User Interface in the game (menus, buttons, HUD, pop-ups…)
• Game Developer Mindset: In addition to creating and implementing optimized assets with your understanding of how players experience content, you have knowledge of tools and processes and are able to foresee interdependencies and contribute with other areas of game development
• Growth: You will help us level up tools, processes and communication, always looking out for new industry trends and technology advancements
• Branding: Support additional designs for game specific branding inside and outside the game
• Prototyping: To achieve the best product value, it is important to iterate on what feels right. You'll be tasked with producing UI mock-ups and animations for testing and assessing overall look and feel prior to its implementation.
• Live events: Efficiently refreshing the front end with Seasonal Style Guide Changes
• Provide paint overs and detailed visual reference with instructions to programming implementation
• Give visual guidance to any outsourced graphic artists

What you'll need

• Experience working in games as a Visual Designer, UI Designer or similar role
• Knowledge of UX fundamentals and processes
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• A resume and an online portfolio showcasing your work
• Released at least 1 mobile game as lead UI or UI/UX

Pluses:

• You have experience working in mobile games.
• You know your way around at least one game engine (especially Unity) and understand the various parts of the game development pipeline.
• You own a basic knowledge of motion graphics and 3D asset creation.
• You have basic illustration skills (composition, coloring and rendering of 2D elements).

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Today, we have offices in Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, and the United States. Here, we create games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.