Rocksteady Studios have teamed up with Aardvark Swift as they look to add a Lead UI Artist to their development team to work with the Art director and establish a UI art direction for their next big project!
As a Lead UI Artist, you will use your experience with, and passion for, creating high-quality user interfaces to enable an intuitive, accessible, and enjoyable gameplay experience. Your role will be key to the project, and you can expect to collaborate across a wide team of developers, including discipline Leads and Directors as well as the wider team to determine how best to develop all UI features.
Founded in 2004, the award-winning developer is home to the widely celebrated Batman: Arkham series as well as the recent Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Rocksteady are a one-project studio who built their success by combining genre-defining gameplay and character-driven cinematic narrative with AAA production values.
Your responsibilities…
Work with the Art Director to establish UI art direction, brand and style guides and maintain 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 and 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…
5 or more years UI experience in games
Shipped one or more titles as Lead UI Artist
Demonstrable knowledge and application of UX, accessibility and 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 and 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
Rocksteady provide a host of perks and benefits including…
Relocation support and assistance, support for your relocation and visa application costs
Private medical and dental cover for you and your family
Generous pension scheme
Family support policies including enhanced parental leave and access to emergency childcare
Flexitime policies so you can work at the times that make sense for you
25 days annual leave plus UK public holiday, and 2 optional and additional days for volunteering
Exercise subsidy for gym membership and exercise programmes, choose what works for you
Subsidised train travel and a cycle to work scheme
Regular wellbeing events and a subscription to the mindfulness app Headspace
Access to learning courses and resources to upskill yourself
Social events throughout the year, and regular lunches with your team in studio or delivered if you're working remotely
In-house game and book library, access to all DC Comics on Comixology, access to the Warner Media Screeners app that’s over 18k films and 25k episodes of TV!
Parties, guest speakers, activity groups, games competition, private screenings of Warner movies
