UI Technical Designer, thatgamecompany
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Video game studio
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Video game studio
101-200 employees
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To expand the range of emotional experiences possible in video games, so that it can be enjoyed and loved by people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have exceptional UI art and design skills, with a passion for developing new interfaces from scratch, along with doing polish passes on pre-existing interfaces and wireframes
- They should be confident in contributing in all disciplines required to execute on a UI design– from creating wireframes, to designing highly polished mockups, to implementing the final product in code
- Professional UI Design experience
- Strong Graphic Design skills (excellent eye for typography, color usage, etc.)
- Ability to work in a clean, minimal aesthetic
- Experience working with Style Guides, and iterating based on art direction
- Proficiency in C#, C++, or C for quickly prototyping interfaces
- Experienced in industry-standard programs (ie. Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Be a self-starter, capable of wearing many hats, and ensuring projects meet their deadlines
- Understanding of, and ability to communicate, the user-centered design process
Desirable
- Illustration skills
- Experience developing multi-platform interfaces, with varying input methods (ie. touch vs. gamepad input)
- Experience with UI design/prototyping tools such as Figma
- Experience with motion design and animation (After Effects, etc.)
- Understanding of HTML Flexbox layout system
- Degree in Graphic Design, UI/UX, Fine Arts, or related field
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented UI Technical Designer to join our UI team. This individual will collaborate with our UI Lead, along with art, design, and engineering teams to craft attractive, minimal interfaces
- Work closely with the UI Lead to develop intuitive, beautiful, innovative interfaces for our games
- Conceptualize new interfaces to solve design problems, and make new features possible
- Create wireframes, mockups, and animations to drive development
- Do polish passes on pre-existing interfaces and wireframes, to ensure the UI is up to our aesthetic and usability standards game-wide
- Create quick-and-dirty prototypes, perform UX tests to validate our hypotheses, and iterate based on the results
- Implement the final interface in C++ to be pixel-perfect
- Collaborate with team members across various disciplines, and be a general advocate for usability and UI consistency
Our take
Thatgamecompany is a video studio that has built popular and emotional game worlds including Sky and Journey. On a mission to elevate games as a legitimate form of art, it stands out not only for the emotional quality of its products, but for appealing to people of varying ages, identities and backgrounds with a single world.
The success of Sky, which has now been downloaded at least 200M times and has nearly 7M daily active players, led to an impressive funding round in 2022. This funding has been invested into growing its development team and organization infrastructure.
As part of this investment, the company is adding Pixar co-founder, Ed Catmull, as principal adviser on creative culture and strategic growth. When considering the incomparable success of his previous ventures, this will likely set Thatgamecompany on a significant growth trajectory.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2022
$160m
LATE VC
Jul 2019
$6m
SERIES C
Total funding: $196.1m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- 401k
- Paid time off
Company values
- Thatgamecompany values integrity and personal growth within an environment of intense collaboration and experimentation
Company HQ
Mid-City, Santa Monica, CA
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Leadership
Jenova Chen
(CEO & Creative Director)Previously served as a Game Designer for Electronic Arts Maxis and for USC Game Innovation Lab. Experience as an Art Director & Lead Artist for Annenberg Communication Center.
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