Senior UI Artist
Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard, optional 4 day working weeks (if preferred) are supported too.
Summary:
As a Senior UI artist you will design & create visually striking 2D assets. This will range from UI right through to iconography & character portraits. In addition to creating high quality assets you will be responsible for overseeing & supporting their implementation into UE4 & the game.
You will be expected to take part in all aspects of the game’s development from planning, designing all the way through to play testing & engaging with customers.
Responsibilities:
Liaise with the product, design & the wider art team at Netspeak to ensure your work is relevant to our audience, reflects the values of the game & the company & matches the high quality bar of the rest of the game
Create visually striking 2D Assets, taking feedback and iterating based on data & opinion
Build highly polished user interfaces to deliver the best experience possible to our audience in collaboration with our Research & UX team members
Build & Manage an efficient source to UE4 asset pipeline
Maintain & Own any UI templates, layouts, standards & onboarding materials for other artists
Your mission:
Netspeak has three pillars: Diversity, Collaboration & Inclusion. Our UI team must be a perfect example of all three working in harmony; you must ensure our game world makes our customers feel comfortable, listened to & build them a space where they feel safe to express themselves. By helping us build a company that reflects these values, we’ll build a product that does the same.
Details:
Salary is up to £60,000 (DOE & based on location). You’ll be joining a small, close-knit team of artists. Your work will mostly be delivering any 2D assets needed for any given feature; and where you have down time there will be a lovely long list of fun bits to do when your feature team has everything they need.
You’ll be given share options for passing your 6 month probationary period, which will have the value & mechanisms explained to you when you join. It’s not complicated!
We want Netspeak to be a place where people come to learn & grow - if you want courses in any of the following areas we will find time & budget to send you on them where possible!
Management training
Time management
VFX for games
Character design
Cinematography
Traditional art mediums (charcoals, paints etc)
- A deep knowledge of design encompassing shape language, layout, typography & colour theory
- Excellent 2D illustration skills & a high proficiency with Photoshop & Illustrator
- Strong Communication & Collaboration skills
- Passion for developing for Mobile Platforms
- Locations
- London Office
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Yearly salary
- £40,000 - £60,000
London Office
Perks and benefits
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⚡️ Time to recharge
To do your best work, you need healthy work/life balance, headspace, and plenty of time to recharge your creative batteries! We finish early on Fridays and operate with zero-cruch. We also don't set a limit on paid time off, and make sure everyone takes at least 25 days annual leave.
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👶 Families welcome!
We offer enhanced pay support for pregnant employees.
(Weeks 1 – 12 at 100% pay. Weeks 13 - 20 at 50% pay. Weeks 21 – 24 at 25% pay. Weeks 25 – 39 at the Statutory Maternity Pay rate).
For secondary carers we offer four weeks at 100% pay. Several Netspeakers are proud parents, and we’re often happily treated to guest baby appearances in meetings!
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🎓 Monthly learning
We want all Netspeakers to grow, experiment, learn, and develop while they’re here. Every month, we devote half a day to independent learning - setting time aside to read books, attend talks, try out new things, skill up via courses & more.
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✨ Work together, play together
Our games are fun. Our workplace should be too! We’re a friendly bunch, always looking for a chance to do playful stuff as a team. We run D&D Thursdays, MTG lunches, and all Netspeakers are invited to play games together for the last hour of every Tuesday. (Expect frequent tasty treats through the post too!)
Remote first
What you bring to the table is way more important than where you sit at it. If you’ve got the stuff, you’re a Netspeaker - whether you’re working from home, our London office, your local hotdesk, or all three.
Diversity & inclusion
We’re committed to making Netspeak an equal & empowering workplace, for all.
Our internal D&I working group regularly explores ways we can better represent marginalised groups in our game, Sunshine Days. Meanwhile in the real world, we’re working hard to welcome and support staff from all backgrounds, races, beliefs, identities, sexualities & more.
We’re also dedicated to remaining open and transparent about what we’re doing to be inclusive at Netspeak, and what we still need to work on. Right now, we’re 60% female and minority genders, 30% LGBTQIA, and 20% BIPOC. Our senior team is 50% male/female and 8% BIPOC.
All work, all play
We’re an ambitious studio with big dreams! So pushing ourselves to do our best work is kind of a given. The pay-off? We really take care of our staff. Providing unlimited holiday, monthly learning sessions, early-finish Fridays & more 💛
About Netspeak Games
Hi 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games!
Netspeak was founded on the idea that great games start with great, happy teams. So from the very beginning, we’ve made it our mission to build a company with people at its heart.
Creativity, care, and community is our DNA. Here, we celebrate our differences. Cherish our imperfections. Seek and value diversity. We’re energetic, joyful makers, daring to do things differently. And we’ve worked hard to build a company culture that empowers our team to be their brilliant, best, authentic selves.
Pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity, we build beautifully-crafted wholesome games, designed to surprise & delight! 💛
Senior UI Artist
Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard, optional 4 day working weeks (if preferred) are supported too.
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