Lead UI/UX Artist – New IP

Creative Assembly
Horsham, United Kingdom
Job type: Permanent

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Job Description

Creative Assembly's award-winning team behind Alien Isolation are exploring new frontiers with a brand new and exciting First-Person Shooter IP.

Creative Assembly are looking for a creative and passionate individual who enjoys working with designers and programmers to translate game design requirements into great user experiences. You will be responsible for the visual communication of information to the player across the game.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, accomplished UI Artist to make their mark on the new, undisclosed IP from Creative Assembly’s multi-award-winning team.

Working with the Art Director, the Lead UI/UX Artist will lead and mentor a small team to create a world class user experience and a uniquely identifiable visual style.

Key Responsibilities

As a Lead UI/UX artist, you will be an enthusiastic developer who has a full appreciation and understanding how excellent UI can positively impact on the player experience.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

  • Be consulting widely to gather UI requirements. Such as developing wireframes, maintaining consistent UX patterns, iterating designs through prototyping
  • Develop style guides / visual designs and managing the final implementation to ensure the designs are flawless and frictionless
  • Lead a team with passion and enthusiasm, giving effective direction and feedback to experienced artists and mentor developing junior artists
  • Demonstrate your expertise through an outstanding portfolio, sharing artistic flair with a keen eye for composition, clarity, and usability
  • Communicate effectively, present ideas confidently and champion the UX strategy across the team

Good organisation, time management and prioritisation skills are key to this role.

Skills & Requirements

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

Essential

  • Ability to communicate and present ideas effectively
  • Demonstrable experience of leading and developing other artists
  • Proven UI/UX experience from concept to delivery on at least one shipped title
  • Excellent graphic design skills – typography, iconography, layout, colour theory
  • Expert in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Motion design experience
  • Solid understanding of UX methodologies and how they apply to game UI design
  • Wireframing experience for console games
  • Good technical knowledge of UI development practices
  • Exceptional UI portfolio
  • An appreciation for games, with discerning eye for good user interface design

Desirable

  • An understanding of user research methods
  • Experience with a 3D package such as 3dsmax or Maya
  • HMTL5, CSS, Javascript experience

Additional Information

  • Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

About the Company

Creative Assembly is one of the UK's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK and in Sofia, Bulgaria. With a heritage of award-winning AAA titles, including the multi-million selling Total War™ series, Creative Assembly continues to build an impressive portfolio of games and world-renowned partnerships; working with Games Workshop on Total War™: WARHAMMER®, Wargaming Alliance on Total War™: ARENA, Twentieth Century Fox on Alien: Isolation, plus 343 Industries and Microsoft on Halo Wars 2. Creative Assembly has, with their exceptionally talented team of over 500, amassed a wealth of awards, including recent accolades from BAFTA, Music+Sound and Develop’s Industry Excellence awards.