Senior UI Artist - Yahtzee! With Buddies

Scopely is looking for a SR UI Artist to join our YAHTZEE! with Buddies team in Barcelona!

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily. 

YAHTZEE! with Buddies is one of our casual free-to-play mobile games and is a classic board game with a new look. The team is based in Barcelona and Israel, and works every day to create captivating new experiences for our players.

What you will do:

• Create benchmark UI designs and mockups conceived by your exceptional creativity and implement them into Unity. 
• Work with the Lead UI Designer to visualize various interface systems in our game and push UI improvement through the roadmap process.
• Work with Tech Leads to establish consistent pipelines for implementation.
• Collaborate closely with UX and Product teams to deliver impactful features and experiences.
• Proactively identify and propose UI improvements across the product.
• Create efficient and polished visual assets as needed.
• Provide UI Animation and UI Interaction Design.
• Be a strong advocate for UI Design and your team’s efforts.
• Deliver and implement assets in the right quality, format, and timeframe so all team members are able to access and use them.
• Manage all User Interface assets for the game, fully in charge of the maintenance of the User Interface repository.
• Create and maintain all UI related documentation.
• In a nutshell, bring the UI features from their early stages to the final product!

What you will need:

• 3+ years of proven experience in the games industry.
• Extensive portfolio displaying diverse artistic skills with an exceptional understanding of graphic design and typography.
• Expert knowledge of Figma, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Understand core challenges of mobile UI from an artistic and technical perspective.
• Understand the full pipeline of getting UI assets into the Unity engine.
• Strong visual design skills and understanding of usability design principles.
• Ability to work well within a dynamic, cross-discipline, and iterative team environment.
• Growth mindset and an eye towards continuous improvement.
• Self-motivated and collaborative, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Positive attitude and an ability to receive and provide objective feedback.
• Must be able to effectively communicate in English.

It’s a plus if you:

• Have basic understanding of User Experience in mobile video games.
• Have experience with implementation of UI screens in a Unity-based game client.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance UI workflows and productivity.
• Passion for exploring and integrating AI into everyday work.
• Experience with After Effects for motion graphics and their relation to UI.
• Have a passion for games and strong knowledge of the mobile games industry.

Required Application Materials

• Portfolio demonstrating relevant UI skills required

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Niantic games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.

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