Visual Design and UI Lead

Responsibilities

World Reborn is looking for a full-time Visual Design and UI Lead with strong UI, brand, and graphic design experience to join our fully remote team and contribute the following:

• Collaborate with the Creative Director and Lead Artist to lead a team executing an iconic visual style for the game, including user interface, story graphics, and brand marketing

• Provide visual comps/references during the concepting and ideation of game features

• Create, polish, and prepare high fidelity UI assets and other gameplay components from specs, in collaboration with game and narrative designers 

• Working with our motion artist, design and create responsive UI to support a wide range of screen resolutions and mobile platforms

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, such as style guides and technical specifications, to ensure consistent and efficient communication

• Work with the Lead Producer to prioritize, delegate, and provide direction and mentorship to a small team, enhancing their skills and helping them reach their full potential

• Provide clear and concise feedback to internal and external team members to ensure alignment with the studio's quality standards, technical requirements, and artistic vision

• Develop iconic brand marketing visuals for public launch in partnership with a major commercial partner

• Stay up to date on industry trends and participate in cross-discipline discussions to improve visual designs and techniques

Qualifications

In addition to being a nice human, the ideal candidate will meet at least several of the following requirements:

• 6+ years of experience as a UI artist for games, with minimum 3+ years in mobile and 1+ shipped titles having owned UI-related features

• Startup mentality–a willingness to don multiple hats, take on whatever tasks are required, and be a team player

• Self-motivated, approaching challenges with curiosity

• Able to work in a fast-paced environment and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice and effectively meet project deadlines

• At home in a cross-functional, team-based environment, able to thrive in and promote a culture of collaboration 

• Demonstrating strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to receive and provide clear feedback and art direction

• Able to balance working hours with sync or async communication with others in different time zones

• Proficiency in advanced design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Photoshop/Illustrator, and After Effects)

• Comfortable enough in Unity to update assets in place without always needing developer assistance

• An ability to work within an existing style guideline while helping to push and define it

• Experience with optimizing high fidelity assets to adapt to the technical constraints and limitations of mobile platforms

• Strong graphic design skills, experience with motion graphics and animation, expertise in game interaction, knowledge of the principles of typography, as well as wireframing skills

• A strong portfolio that showcases visual taste, advanced UI, and strong artistic style. An ideal portfolio will include:

• high-fidelity final assets

• a range of visual styles

• process work from concept to completion

• innovative solutions to UI challenges

• examples of UI animations or motion design

Bonus points for:

• Familiarity with Rive

• Proficiency and interest in UX design, prototyping, and user testing; experience doing UX for mobile games