UI Artist - 6 months

We are Media Molecule, a Guildford based game developer proudly part of the PlayStation Studios group. We have a history of creating Award winning games such as LittleBigPlanet, Tearaway and Dreams.

Role Overview:

This is a 6-month contingent engagement through our staffing partner, Yoh Services, offering the opportunity to contribute to an exciting PlayStation Studios project. We welcome applications from candidates seeking fully remote working within the UK or a hybrid arrangement.

As a UI Artist, you will be working with an established UI/UX team to create a range of 2D UI assets, including iconography, representations of the game world, and in-world branding to support consistent and lively presentation. The work will contribute to the UI’s existing graphic design-led visual direction and game branding.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working within the UI/UX team whilst continuously collaborating with the brand and art teams to concept and create a range of shippable UI assets, particularly icon design, in-world branding, and representations of the game world within the UI.
• Building strong, collaborative working relationships with the UI/UX, art, design, and engineering teams to ensure consistency, authenticity, and brand harmony across the UI.
• Maintain documentation to track the status of work both in and outside of the game.

What we’re looking for:

• Expertise with design tools like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and other general design tools.
• Excellent creative problem-solving skills by creating simple solutions to complex problems.
• Great communicator, with strong presentation skills and the ability to clearly convey your ideas to non-art stakeholders.
• A solid grasp of visual design and user interface design principles.
• Ability to work autonomously.

Advantageous:

• Experience creating UI/UX on a shipped title.
• Prior experience working with UI design systems in Figma.
• Have worked with After Effects and have experience with motion graphics.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday and 8 bank holidays per year
• Flexitime working (where approved)
• Free car parking facilities
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers

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- Expertise with design tools like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and other general design tools. - Excellent creative problem-solving skills by creating simple solutions to complex problems. - Great communicator, with strong presentation skills and the ability to clearly convey your ideas to non-art stakeholders. - A solid grasp of visual design and user interface design principles. - Ability to work autonomously.