UI Artist

UI Artist | Art | London | Contract

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.  

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way. 

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and join the mission!

UI Artist

Hutch is looking for an experienced UI Artist to join the team in London on a 6 month contract to deliver visually impressive free to play gaming experiences. We really value our players and you will be a key part of defining how they interact with our games. You will have a strong understanding of UI Art and UX Design and have an ability to create sleek, clean, performant and stylish user interfaces. You should be collaborative with the ability to quickly understand and translate requirements into beautiful user experiences and have an excellent understanding of working with brand and directional guidelines.

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with the Art Director and UI team to help define and implement appropriate UI art style
• Create high quality UI artwork and the associated source assets to match the high quality visual style of our games
• Collaborate with Designers and the Product Owner to prepare excellent UI & UX design
• Work with client engineers to implement well functioning and bug free UI within Unity
• Design elegant UX layouts in conjunction with the design team, including wireframes and user flow
• Be required to attend regular design meetings and team presentations
• Contribute to planning and scheduling with effective costing and estimating

Requirements

• Proven UI Art experience within the games or similar industry with a portfolio of work examples
• Strong logo and iconography design skills
• Experience of the design workflow, starting from paper level, through wireframes to functioning prototypes
• The ability to demonstrate a practical understanding of UX/communication design conventions and how they affect player behaviour and be aware of current and emerging trends
• Excellent visual design skills (sense of proportion, layout, graphical form, typography, colour, composition and negative space)

• Have a good sense of colour and composition, understand what looks great
• Technical proficiency with; Photoshop, Illustrator, Unity and Figma

• An interest in working on mobile games 

• A desire to have a big impact within a small empowered team
• Experience working with existing IPs and external branding guidelines

Bonus Points

• Experience in VFX, 2D animation and motion graphics
• Experience with 3D art software such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, Substance Painter or Zbrush
• UX prototyping design software such as Adobe XD or Flinto

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. 

Our Values

• Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity.
• Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware.
• Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together.
• Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling.
• Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/