Senior UI / UX Designer

Astrid Entertainment is a gaming studio dedicated to creating multiplayer creative experiences. They are seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer to lead the player-facing experience of their game, focusing on making the UI intuitive and engaging while collaborating with a UI engineer and graphic designers.

Responsibilities:

• Own the UX across the game's core systems: flows, information architecture, interaction and layout
• Design the HUD, menus, screens and moment-to-moment input so they read clearly and feel great to use
• Produce wireframes, prototypes and mock-ups and take them through to final implementation
• Build and wire up your UI in Unreal (UMG), working alongside a UI engineer
• Define and maintain a UI design system that the team and external vendors can build to
• Direct outsourced graphic designers on iconography, colour and visual polish
• Run playtests and iterate quickly as the game evolves

Requirements:

• 5+ years designing UI/UX for games, with at least one shipped title or substantial in-development work
• A strong portfolio of UI/UX work on systems-rich games that shows your process and thinking
• Proven ability to make complex systems simple and intuitive without flattening their depth
• Demonstrable understanding of cosy / life-sim / management games and adventure games, since you'll be designing a hybrid of the two
• Hands-on experience building UI in Unreal (UMG). We'll consider an exceptional UX candidate with lighter Unreal, but some practical experience here is strongly expected
• Fluency with Figma and / or Adobe Suite
• UX - Making the game simple to pick up but deep to master. This matters most, by a clear margin
• Unreal (UMG) - Able to implement your own designs in-engine, working alongside a UI engineer
• Graphic Design - A strong visual sense is a bonus rather than a requirement