Wildlight Entertainment is hiring a
Senior Technical UI Designer

Summary

Wildlight Entertainment is a new entertainment studio comprised of talented creators from gaming IPs like Apex Legends, Call of Duty, and Titanfall. They are committed to making high-quality games with a positive work environment. As a Senior Technical UI Designer, you will build user interfaces for their first game using UE5, collaborate with team members, monitor and maintain UI performance, and playtest the game regularly.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience as a Technical Designer, UI Technical Artist, Scripter, or similar role in Game Development
• Have 2+ Shipped titles in a UI role
• Have excellent design sensibilities and collaboration skills, particularly with other disciplines including Programmers, Designers, and Artists
• Experience with Programming/Scripting languages such as Python, C#, Java, or any C based scripting language
• Experience prototyping, building, and owning UI features from concept to release
• Proven ability to be self-directed, effective, and productive even when the path ahead is unclear

Responsibilities

• Help drive the execution of new game features, capabilities, and content
• Work directly in UE5 to create awesome AAA-quality user interfaces that are easy to understand and navigate
• Own and implement features using a combination of widget blueprint editing and traditional scripting
• Collaborate with UX designers, UI engineers and artists, technical designers, and more to deliver features on time
• Monitor, maintain, and improve UI performance
• Quickly identify and debug technical issues
• Playtest the game regularly, with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing UI components using Unreal Engine 4 or 5
• Experience with motion design and animation
• Experience in game development outside of UI (Engineering, Art, Design)
• Experience creating Shaders and Materials with Unreal’s Material Editor or similar node-based material editors

Benefits

• Competitive industry standard base salaries
• An annual bonus
• Royalties
• Comprehensive healthcare, dental & vision coverage for you and your family
• Paid parental leave
• No-crunch culture and an unlimited PTO policy