Senior UX/UI Artist (Hybrid)
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We're looking for a talented Senior UX/UI Artist to join our Shared Services Group (SSG). SSG works across all nDreams studios on a variety of new and innovative projects, allowing you to showcase a broad range of creativity.
You will be joining a growing UI/UX team working with the Principal UI Artist. You will be responsible for designing how players interact with the game, defining the visual language, and helping create unique and ground-breaking immersive UI that shapes the player's experiences.
Key Responsibilities:
- Art and design fundamentals, including typography, layout design, colour theory, and iconography.
- Working with the Principal UI Artist and Core Tech team to produce VR-specific visuals.
- Create, organize, and maintain game-ready assets.
- Ability to adapt to recent technologies and ways of working.
- The creation and revision of UI/UX design and flows.
- Assist UI Artists, and UX Designers to ensure functionality and visual fidelity.
- Build Implementation guides and assist programmers to implement systems into the game
- Work with Art Direction to establish direction and create a UI style guide.
- An understanding of game-specific systems (perks, unlocks, progression, inventory, HUD)
- You must be collaborative and can work and communicate with all disciplines.
Requirements
Essential capabilities:
- At least 3 years of experience in the games industry.
- Development experience with Unreal Engine and confidence in using UMG for the implementation of UI systems.
- Happy to work closely with others in a cross-discipline team.
- Ability to iterate rapidly prototype UI systems to bring them to quality.
- Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and any industry-standard UI tools. (Adobe XD, Figma, Miro, Confluence, Notion).
- A good understanding of Graphic Design, Typography, Motion Graphics, Iconography, UX, and UI fundamentals.
- Up to date with the latest UI design trends.
- Have some experience with 3d software (Blender, Maya).
Desired experience:
- Experience with UI Materials Lab and Common UI.
- Familiarity with at least one current or next-gen asset pipeline
Benefits
Who we are -
We are nDreams, a world-leading game developer and publisher with nearly a decade of VR specialism. Combining a drive to push technological boundaries with proven gaming excellence, we are the team who set the standard for VR games with Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, Synapse, Fracked and the award-winning Phantom: Covert Ops.
With our team’s triple-A credentials and sensibilities, alongside bespoke VR technologies, we’ve got the skillset, processes and creative vision to deliver innovative, high-end games for all VR platforms and genres. If it’s VR gaming, you will find nDreams at the forefront of it.
Our projects continue to advance the present and define the future of VR. Want to be a part of it? Apply today to join a studio with a state-of-the-art collaborative workflow and diverse talents assembled from world-leading games developers and publishers.
Why nDreams?
Our expanding company shares a passion for innovation, collaboration and leading the future of VR. We encourage an open and diverse culture and empower people to explore ideas and put their own stamp on their work. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects and considerable scale with a personal, caring touch.
We offer great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time and support, as well as regular socials and parties. Beyond this, there’s an excellent holiday offering, pension scheme, health insurance, life cover and much more. Our newly refurbished nDreams studio space has some fantastic facilities and is built around collaborative work (and play!).