Lead UI Artist

• Shape the visual language of the game across menus, HUDs, icons, and motion
• Set the artistic vision for UI across the project
• Act as a UI craft specialist and provide expert guidance, mentorship, and support
• Champion UI best practices and standards for visual quality, usability, technical implementation, and player experience
• Collaborate with clients, internal stakeholders, designers, artists, engineers, producers, and development teams
• Present UI concepts and work and support client and stakeholder discussions
• Design and create menus, HUDs, icons, buttons, animations, and interactive elements
• Develop and improve UI workflows, pipelines, style guides, documentation, and best practices
• Review UI work and provide constructive feedback
• Support UI implementation in the game engine with engineers, balancing creative goals, performance, and technical constraints
• Contribute to player interactions, accessibility, and usability
• Explore and introduce techniques, tools, and workflows to improve UI quality and production efficiency
• Share knowledge through mentoring, feedback, documentation, and best-practice development
• Provide expert input on complex UI challenges and technical decisions
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and UI/UX practices

Requirements

• Significant professional experience in UI development across all phases of the game development lifecycle; AAA experience advantageous
• Proven experience leading UI delivery on game projects, including mentoring team members, reviewing work, and driving quality across the discipline
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and player-centred design
• Excellent visual design skills, including typography, layout, colour theory, and interaction design
• Strong artistic ability across both 2D and 3D UI creation, with expertise in illustration, iconography, and technical vector artwork
• Experience establishing UI workflows, pipelines, documentation, and style guides that support scalable, high-quality production
• Strong awareness of current and emerging UI/UX trends
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Adobe XD or equivalent UI design tools
• Experience implementing UI in Unreal Engine using UMG
• Great communication and presentation skills, with experience explaining design decisions to multidisciplinary teams, senior stakeholders, and external clients
• Experience planning, prioritising, and managing UI work across multiple projects while identifying risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges
• Collaborative and supportive leadership style, with a passion for mentoring others and fostering team growth
• Passion for creating industry-leading user experiences
• Basic knowledge of scripting: HTML, CSS, XML, XAML or similar
• Understanding of working within memory constraints while balancing artistic intentions
• Must be based in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support are not provided

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in UI development and design, with a strong focus on player-centered design principles and the ability to lead and mentor teams in creating high-quality user experiences. Proficient in establishing workflows and best practices that enhance production efficiency and visual quality.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• UI Development
• UI/UX Principles
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Unreal Engine
• Mentorship

Hard Skills

• Visual Design
• Typography
• Layout
• Colour Theory
• Interaction Design
• 2D UI Creation
• 3D UI Creation
• Illustration
• Iconography
• Scripting

Soft Skills

• Communication
• Presentation
• Collaboration
• Leadership
• Mentoring

Industry Keywords

• Game Development
• AAA Experience
• Player Experience
• UI Workflows
• Accessibility
• Usability
• Emerging Technologies
• Design Documentation
• Style Guides
• Memory Constraints

Tools & Technologies

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• After Effects
• Adobe XD
• UMG

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