Lead UI Artist

Rocksteady is looking for a Lead UI Artist - the ideal candidate will possess both experience with, and passion for, creating high quality user interfaces that enable an intuitive, accessible and enjoyable gameplay experience.

Your Role Accountabilities:

• 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 consult 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 each member of the team.
• Be an advocate for open feedback and possess a growth mindset.
• 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.
• Drive a high-performance culture and support and manage our UI team ona day-to-day basis, including maintaining team motivation and engagement.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Able to demonstrate an exceptional 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.
• Proficient experience in a AAA games leadership role.
• Demonstratable knowledge of Figma and Adobe software for 2D Design.
• Knowledge of current interaction and design trends in Games, particularly across PC & Console titles.
• Direct experience working within a AAA game engine.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine and node-based visual scripting.
• Knowledge of Unreal materials/shaders for UI texture optimisation.
• Motion graphic skills are a bonus, i.e. Adobe After Effects.
• Knowledge of industry standard Game Development 3D software is helpful.
• Experienced in overall Game development pipelines and process across disciplines.