Lead UI Artist

Summary

Join Escape Velocity as a Lead UI Artist and drive the vision for UI art on our projects. Collaborate with UX, Art Directors, and the Game Director to create and implement high-quality UI assets. You will build and lead a team of UI Art implementers, ensuring consistency and quality. Work collaboratively with other departments to create AAA quality UI experiences. Escape Velocity is a fully remote company that values its employees' time and offers excellent benefits. We prioritize honesty, autonomy, and constant improvement.

Requirements

Have experience implementing AAA quality UI Art in Unreal Engine 5 or other comparable game engines

Responsibilities

• Drive the vision for UI Art on Escape Velocity’s projects by embracing the art style and direction defined by the Art Directors and using the art style guide as the backdrop to create UI that is both in alignment with UX’s wireframes and is thematically perfect to the art style
• Collaborate with UX, the Art Directors, and the Game Director to pitch your vision, before doing some of your own strong implementation against that plan
• Effectively plan and communicate work, ensuring realistic goals and dependencies
• Deliver high-quality UI assets throughout the development process, from early prototypes to final implementation in the game engine
• Build and lead a team of UI Art implementers, whether in-house or outsourced to execute on the vision and style guide for UI
• Be accountable for the quality and consistency of UI Art produced on the team
• Work collaboratively with UX Design, Tech Design and Engineers to create AAA quality UI experiences; actively participate in the creation and implementation of design systems, game menus, HUD elements, Iconography, UI materials and shaders, UI animation and motion design
• Work quickly and effectively in a fast-paced environment; be flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity; contribute to shipping product team features on time and to quality
• Flag new and emerging design patterns or systems to the Art Directors
• Collaborate with the greater UXUI Department to ensure consistency and quality is maintained

Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Fully remote
• Support team members nearly anywhere in the world