Principal UI Designer

Craft:

Games Design & Production

Job Description:

Are you ready to take our players on an incredible journey? Do you aspire to create the world’s best mobile games? We are seeking UI talent to help us level up and ensure our games are as inclusive and engaging as possible. You’ll drive our team forward to deliver unforgettable experiences that delight players across the world.

Your role within our Kingdom

You are an experienced UI Principal Designer,  who will exhibit mastery of UI design and act as a role model and mentor for colleagues with less experience in one or more business areas of the product. As a UI Principal you utilize industry best practice and deep understanding of interaction design, art, graphic design,  and other principles to improve Candy product and UI design processes. You are keen on  identifying complex problems or inconsistencies and design elegant, future-proof solutions to be adopted  across the game. You are able to work autonomously, remaining a visible and proactive team player. You are a craft  influencer in your business area and cross the game.

You support the strategic framework and champion giving UI feedback to the designers, working closely with the Art/UI Director to help bring up the visual aesthetic of the game to the next level. With your passion for player- centric design, you will mentor your team members to make their designs, even more, user friendly and accessible.

As a member of the Candy team you’ll participate in a cross-location collaboration. We believe your communication and organization skills will help you to champion our cooperation on features and information exchange among the teams. 

Skills to Create Thrills

Experience 

• 5+ years of experience UI design for mobile games
• You have experience working on UI style guides
• You have proven examples of driving larger projects or initiatives
• You have proven mentorship experience
   

Knowledge & Skills 

• You are eager to mentor others and bring their works to the next level
• You are adaptable to the change and able to perform in fast pacing environment
• You have a well- developed sense of visual aesthetics
• You are great at articulate design decisions and present your work to larger groups
• You are confident in analyzing design specs
• You have knowledge of technical constraints and assets optimisation
• You can apply interaction and communication design to your work
• You mitigate risk in project planning. Great understanding of how to produce appealing UI in style within the available time frame and resources
• You have great communication and organizational skills
• You are structured and champion documentation to secure your work
• You have a proactive mindset and is a clear go-to person

Tasty Bonus Skills 

• Experience in user testing
• Skills in animation, motion design and special effects
• Experience working in an agile project environment
• Interest in growing your influence on the end product quality

A portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skill, including any relevant personal projects, is required.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.