Rocksteady is looking for a Lead UI Artist to join their dedicated and collaborative team working on their upcoming title Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
As a Lead UI Artist, you will possess both experience with, and passion for, creating high-quality user interfaces that enable an intuitive, accessible and enjoyable gameplay experience. Working with a team of developers, this role will be highly collaborative and key to their mission to deliver an exceptional experience for all players.
Your responsibilities…
Work with the Art director to establish UI art direction, brand and style guides – maintaining a consistent style throughout the project
Work with Directors and Leads to determine requirements and development of all UI features, communicating status of deliverables proactively
Collaborate and liaise with Artists, Designers, and Programmers in the implementation of UI features – iterating on Design & User feedback to polish and improve features
Manage documentation and flow diagrams for UI/UX features
Delegate and maintain an equitable workload across the UI Art team, communicating with Project Leadership and stakeholders on deliverables
Create opportunities for the UI Artists to expand their skillset and knowledge, understanding their career vectors and developing growth pathways for them
Explore and provide solutions when the UI visual direction conflicts with the needs of the game design or technical limitations
Review workflow and tools in the UI production pipeline, to proactively identify bottlenecks or areas for improvement to developer efficiency
Collaborate and supervise outsource UI Art teams, to ensure delivery of work to specification
The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…
Able to demonstrate excellent knowledge and application of UX, Accessibility & player-focused design principles – through work in complex Game projects, ideally with AAA targets
Demonstrable professional graphic design skills – particularly layout, typography, and colour theory application
Excellent knowledge of Figma and Adobe software for 2D Design
Appreciation of current interaction and design trends in Games, particularly across PC & Console titles
Experience with Unreal Engine and node-based visual scripting is highly desirable
Knowledge of Unreal materials/shaders for UI texture optimisation and animation is beneficial
Demonstrate motion graphic skills is a bonus, i.e. Adobe After Effects
Knowledge of industry-standard Game Development 3D software is helpful
Perks and benefits include…
Relocation support and assistance
Private medical and dental cover
Family support policies
Flexitime policies
Regular wellbeing events and a subscription to the mindfulness app Headspace
Access to learning courses and resources to upskill yourself
Founded in 2004, the award-winning developer is home to the widely celebrated Batman: Arkham series. Rocksteady are a one-project studio that built their success by combining genre-defining gameplay and character-driven cinematic narrative with AAA production values.
