Job Description

Kwalee is one of the world's leading multiplatform game publishers and developers, with well over 750 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let's Be Cops 3D, Traffic Cop 3D and Makeover Studio 3D. Alongside this, we also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope and Die by the Blade. With a team of talented people collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, the Philippines and many more places, and we've recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales which is based in France. We have a truly global team making games for a global audience. And it's paying off: Kwalee has been recognised with the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership awards from TIGA (The Independent Game Developers' Association). Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters for many years, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts. This position is working with the Tictales studio - Drawing inspiration from visual novels and gamebooks, we provide interactive story apps, franchises, and services for many genres & audiences: romance, thriller, medical drama, fantasy and more! Our stories can be experienced on web browsers or mobile stand-alone apps. Tictales are experts in crafting the best narrative and interactive storytelling experiences with a long-term vision : to bring bigger franchises to the world and enable content creators from everywhere to express themselves. What's the job? As a UI/UX Designer you have experience working with game designs and data to help make sure they both communicate and resonate with players. You'll work closely with every department to craft new games and improve existing titles. What you tell your friends you do "I make sure that our player have an experience smoother than freshly churned butter" What you will really be doing

• Working closely with designers, artists and programmers to help take the UX of a feature through from conceptualization to completion.
• Creating wireframes, functional UX prototypes
• Collaborate with the Art Leads to find the right information hierarchy and UI conventions to get information across to the user in a tone and style appropriate to each game.
• Working with the analytics department to understand the results of your work and the impact it has on player behavior.
• From paper to playable you will be able to visualize the desired UX, both in UX tools or in Unity.
• Providing feedback based on your expertise on a wide range of games.

How you will be doing this

• You'll be part of an agile, multidisciplinary and creative team and work closely with them to ensure the best results.
• You'll think creatively and be motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best.
• You'll work with cutting edge technology, if you need software or hardware to get the job done efficiently, you can get it.

Team Our talented team is our signature. We have a highly creative atmosphere with more than 150 staff where you'll have the opportunity to contribute daily to important decisions. You'll work within an extremely experienced, passionate and diverse team, including David Darling and the creator of the Micro Machines video games. Skills and requirements

• A minimum of 3 years experience in a UI/UX design role with at least one published F2P mobile game.
• Working knowledge of the Unity engine, implementing UX designs and providing best practices for the games to follow.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent workflow visualization skills in Figma, Adobe XD or other industry standard tools.
• Ability to work creatively in a demanding team environment.
• Absolute passion for playing and making video games, especially mobile games.
• Strong creative ideas and imagination, able to entertain players with challenges, humor, surprises and fun.
• Positive attitude, self driven and able to work alone or as part of a team.

Desirable

• Experience in typography or font design
• Coding / prototyping skills.
• Skills in animation, motion design and/or special effects
• Experience of mobile game live ops, A/B testing and telemetry.

We offer

• We want everyone involved in our games to share our success, that's why we have a generous team profit sharing scheme from day 1 of employment
• In addition to a competitive salary we also offer private medical cover and life assurance
• Creative Wednesdays! (Design and make your own games every Wednesday)
• 20 days of paid holidays plus bank holidays
• Hybrid model available depending on the department and the role
• Relocation support available
• Great work-life balance with flexible working hours
• Quarterly team building days - work hard, play hard!
• Monthly employee awards
• Free snacks, fruit and drinks

Our philosophy We firmly believe in creativity and innovation and that a fundamental requirement for a successful and happy company is having the right mix of individuals. With the right people in the right environment anything and everything is possible. Kwalee makes games to bring people, their stories, and their interests together. As an employer, we're dedicated to making sure that everyone can thrive within our team by welcoming and supporting people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances. With the inclusion of diverse voices in our teams, we bring plenty to the table that's fresh, fun and exciting; it makes for a better environment and helps us to create better games for everyone! This is how we move forward as a company - because these voices are the difference that make all the difference.