Senior Mobile Game UI Designer

Role Overview

• Own the visual and interaction design of key mobile game screens
• Design UI driven by UX that is immediately understandable to casual players with strong hierarchy, clear calls to action, and minimal friction
• Create high-polish mobile layouts that work across a wide range of screen sizes, aspect ratios, and device performance profiles
• Balance usability, visual appeal, brand personality, and monetization goals without making the game feel cheap or overloaded
• Design reward moments, upgrade moments, purchase flows, and progression feedback that feel satisfying, clear, and commercially effective
• Understand how UI choices affect player behavior including button placement, reward framing, urgency, scarcity, value perception, and habit formation
• Use data, A/B test results, player feedback, and competitive analysis to improve designs over time
• Develop and maintain scalable UI systems, components, layouts, iconography, and style guides
• Create production-ready mockups, specs, flows, prototypes, and handoff documentation for engineering and art teams
• Ensure final in-game UI matches the intended quality bar through implementation review, feedback, and iteration
• Collaborate with motion designers or technical artists to define satisfying transitions, button feedback, reward reveals, pack openings, upgrade animations, and live ops presentation
• Build agent-driven workflows that combine human design judgment with AI-assisted output
• Use generative AI tools to accelerate ideation, visual exploration, UI variation, icon concepts, moodboards, production support, and competitive analysis
• Rapidly produce multiple visual directions and iterate based on team feedback, playtests, and product goals

Requirements

• 5 or more years of professional UI design experience in games
• 3 or more years designing specifically for mobile free-to-play games
• At least one shipped mobile game in a senior, lead, or major ownership capacity
• Strong portfolio showing real mobile game UI work, not only marketing art or web and app design
• Deep understanding of casual mobile UI patterns, monetization flows, progression systems, and live ops design
• Strong visual design skills across layout, typography, color, hierarchy, iconography, composition, and polish
• Excellent Figma skills including components, variants, libraries, and design systems
• Experience designing for Unity-based mobile games or similar game engines
• Ability to create clear flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready screen specs
• Strong communication skills with the ability to defend design decisions using player, product, and business reasoning
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, metric-driven production environment

Tech Stack

• Unity

Benefits

• Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy
• Observance of Holidays per company guidelines
• 100% remote setup so you can work wherever you're most productive