Overview
In this role you will design and produce high-quality, production-ready UI assets for a mobile game, aligning with a cute, quirky visual identity. You’ll collaborate across Art, UX, Design, and Tech to ensure UI is readable, polished, and integrated into Unity. You’ll shape the game’s interface from wireframes to final visuals, guiding consistency and usability. This is a chance to contribute to a major global IP with a playful, high-quality aesthetic and cross-disciplinary teamwork.
Pay / Benefits
- collaborative art team focused on craft
- playful and highly visible game experience
- healthy work culture valuing trust and teamwork
- opportunity to shape UI for a major global IP
Responsibilities
- Design and produce UI assets for mobile gameplay, menus, HUDs, events and live features
- Create clear, readable icons, buttons, panels, badges, frames and interface elements
- Develop illustrative UI elements that support the game's visual identity
- Work from wireframes, UX flows and art direction to final visuals
- Maintain consistency across UI screens, systems and feature updates
- Prepare assets for Unity with correct formats, naming, slicing and optimization
- Support UI style guides, templates and documentation
- Collaborate with UX, Design, Tech and Art Direction to ensure UI is beautiful and production-ready
- Review in-game implementation and polish final results
- Contribute ideas to improve readability, usability and visual quality
- Coordinate with cross-discipline teams (2D, 3D, VFX, animation) for UI needs
- Communicate clearly with internal teams and respond well to feedback
- Support production priorities while maintaining quality and consistency
Key requirements
- Strong portfolio showing high-quality UI art for games or mobile products
- Excellent iconography with readability at small sizes
- Strong illustration skills for stylized, playful visuals
- Solid understanding of layout, composition, typography, color, hierarchy and visual clarity
- Experience with Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator or equivalent tools
- Experience creating UI assets for Unity
- Good knowledge of 3D principles and how 3D assets support UI
- Ability to prepare clean, optimized, implementation-ready assets
- Good understanding of mobile UI constraints and readability
- Experience with art direction and established visual styles
- Strong communication skills and ability to take feedback
- Polish, consistency and quality control mindset
- Comfort working with both 2D and 3D pipelines
- Experience supporting live game features, events or seasonal content
- collaboration
- communication
- responsiveness to feedback
- Unity UI asset integration
- 2D/3D asset workflows
- Blender (preferred)
Senior UI Artist | New Games in London employer: King Games
At King, we pride ourselves on fostering a vibrant and inclusive work culture where creativity and collaboration thrive. As a Senior Python Developer, you will have the opportunity to work on impactful projects within a supportive environment, leveraging cutting-edge technologies while enjoying continuous learning and growth opportunities. Located in the heart of the tech industry, our offices provide a dynamic atmosphere that encourages innovation and teamwork, making King an exceptional employer for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers in technology.
