Lead UI Artist

Description Lead UI Artist | Art | London | Permanent 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 300 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!

Lead UI Artist Hutch is looking for a Lead UI Artist to join the team in London to own and 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 Design and have an ability to lead and create sleek, clean and stylish user interfaces.

You should be collaborative, working in partnership with UX, Art Director and Design with the ability to quickly understand, translate and lead UI requirements into beautiful user experiences.

Responsibilities Head up, lead and be the focal point of the UI team, partnering with Art Direction, UX, Design and Product to prepare excellent UI designs including pitching ideas and partnering with the visual direction taking day to day ownership

Create and maintain style & brand guides, asset language & naming and project structure(s) within Figma and Unity, adhere to IP licensing and IP requirements

Create high quality UI artwork and the associated source assets to match the high quality visual style of our game(s)
Ensure visual consistency and quality is maintained throughout the project and maintaining a design system in partnership with the team Support and mentor the team, identify training needs, guiding career progression and creative improvements

Manage 360 communications, relationships and expectations across the teams

Work with client engineers to implement performant, well functioning and bug free UI within Unity, keep abreast of new technologies, pipelines and industry trends

Be required to lead team presentations and meetings and attend regular design meetings

Planning, costing and scheduling work alongside production, balancing scope against milestones and delivery

Work with and promote cross collaboration with the wider company and other project teams

Proactively drive and advance project-level UI design decisions in close collaboration with key stakeholders

Requirements

Proven UI Art leadership experience within the games industry on multiple titles, in particular on a live product

High quality visual art and design pieces within portfolio with proven visual design skills Experience in creating, maintaining and evolving a design system for a digital product

Experience of the design workflow, starting from concept 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

Have an excellent sense of visual language and messaging, keeping consistency across multiple areas of a project

Unity experience with the ability to implement assets and aid technical improvements

Excellent, proven skills with Figma & Adobe Creative Cloud software

Strong understanding with AI tools and AI generated imagery

Experience in working with 3rd party IP brand holders & licensing teams A desire to have a big impact within a small empowered team Excellent communication and presentation skills

Experience with version control (Unity VCS/Plastic a bonus)
Bonus Points At Hutch we have very varied roles, so we’d welcome any of the additional…