UI Designer

Arrowhead Games Studios is an exciting company dedicated to creating intensely thrilling and hilarious game experiences designed to forge friendships between players throughout the world. Through games as a medium, we are on a mission to cure loneliness and build bridges, one friendly-fire co-op session at the time. We are a value driven company that strives for everyone in the company, from top management to devs to be player-centric in everything that we do. We are excited to gather the best game makers and collaborators in the world under our four walls in order to set ourselves up for success as we strive to become the best co-op game studio in the world.

We are now looking for a UI Designer!

About the job

As a UI Designer at Arrowhead, you are responsible for conceptualizing and applying UI designs across multiple systems of our games. You will make sure that the UI works consistently and is representative of the game mechanics and improves the user experience. UI Designers at Arrowhead works closely with programmers and game designers in order to follow through the implementation of UI designs. As a UI Designer you are also expected to have a good enough understanding of the implementation processes’ and to be able to work around any potential technical limitations.

Your responsibilities:

- Create complex and reusable UI prototypes.

- Take design ownership of individual UI systems such as menus, interactions or flows and ensure visual-, design- and quality consistency with all other UI systems.

- Collaborate freely with other departments, such as design, code, tech art or animation, to make sure that the final product not only meets your design concepts, but also the requirements of the other disciplines and seek out additional information where needed.

- Support and provide guidance to junior UI Designers.

Requirements:

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Proficient in UI Design software (Figma or equivalent), having a deep understanding of the tools and features, and able to use them to create more complex and detailed designs, UI templates and motion concepts.

- Being able to work independently and comfortable taking initiative.

- Proficient in art softwares suitable for UI art production, able to consistently deliver high quality UI assets.

- Good understanding of advanced UI and UX principles such as UI/UX design theory, layout, menu composition, flow design, input devices and navigation

Nice to have:

Tools experience: Adobe Suite, Stingray (or equivalent)
Experience with UI art production and/or scripting

More about you

As a UI Designer at Arrowhead you are expected to understand and apply good UI/UX principles as well as having a good enough technical skill to be able to cover all bases of the UI design work - from wireframing, prototyping and quick design iteration to producing assets, implementation (together with programmers) and be responsive to when issues occur. They should be able to work highly collaboratively in a hybrid team environment, take direction and feedback, and be able to manage their time effectively to meet project deadlines.

How to apply

If you think that this position matches your background and skills, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV in English as soon as possible. We interview candidates continuously and hire when we find a good fit.

We ask that your application always include relevant work samples or a link to your portfolio

Practical information

Scope: Full-time: 40 hours per week.
Location: Hybrid remote

What we offer

Arrowhead Game Studios is a growing team of about 120 people, known for our co-op titles. By challenging the creativity of the players, we create memorable experiences with humor and social interaction that leaves you with a story to tell. Our custom tailored new offices are located in the newly developed Stockholm Seaside area, with a lovely view at the waterfront.

At Arrowhead, we strive to hire people smarter than ourselves because that's how we evolve, both as people and as a company. Your ideas are welcomed and valued and the ceiling for creative discussions is high.

You would get to work with passionate people that take pride in building bridges between people through our games.

Our people are crucial for our success and hence we put a lot of emphasis in creating and maintaining a prosperous culture.

We are now working on our biggest and most ambitious project to date. If you want to be part of a driven and friendly team with a family feeling, then Arrowhead is the place to be!