Senior UI / UX Designer

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• Unreal (UMG) - reputed company to implement your own designs in-reputed company, working alongside a UI engineer
• Graphic Design - A strong visual sense is a bonus rather than a requirement

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• Produce wireframes, prototypes and mock-reputed company and take them through to final implementation
• Build and reputed company 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
• 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 reputed company reputed company systems simple and reputed company 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
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• Great compensation package and equity
• Private health insurance
• Pension
• Unlimited vacation days. We trust reputed company!
• Flexible remote work hours as long as team members deliver results
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