Senior UI Motion & VFX Artist (Mobile F2P Games)

Location: Remote, prioritizing candidates based in Serbia, Romania, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, or Poland

Company

hirify.global develops a premium mobile free-to-play game connected to a globally recognized IP.

What you will do

• Create UI animations, transitions, and interaction feedback for gameplay, menus, events, offers, and reward flows.
• Design reward and celebration VFX, including coin bursts, glows, sparkles, light sweeps, multipliers, prize reveals, and win moments.
• Bring static UI screens to life through timing, pacing, anticipation, impact, staging, and readability.
• Collaborate with UI/UX Designers, Game Designers, Product Managers, Artists, and Engineers to improve clarity, player motivation, and emotional impact.
• Implement, tune, and optimize animation and effects in Unity while considering mobile performance, memory, and production constraints.
• Create reusable motion patterns and feedback systems that scale across game features.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience with 5+ years of relevant game industry experience, creating UI motion, animation, and/or VFX for mobile free-to-play games.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating reward feedback, celebration moments, transitions, and animated UI systems.
• Strong knowledge of animation principles, including timing, easing, anticipation, follow-through, impact, staging, and rhythm.
• Experience working with game engines, ideally Unity, and understanding of premium mobile game polish and free-to-play reward presentation.
• Ability to collaborate across UI/UX, art, game design, product, and engineering, and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Understanding of mobile performance considerations for animation, particles, and UI effects.

Nice to have

• Unity implementation experience with Animator, Timeline, particle systems, prefabs, UI animation, and optimization.
• Experience with After Effects, Spine, Rive, Lottie, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or similar tools.
• Experience creating particle effects, shaders, animated materials, or light and glow treatments.
• Experience with LiveOps features, events, offers, bundles, reward screens, and monetization flows.
• Experience creating motion style guides, reusable animation libraries, or UI feedback systems.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote and flexible work with a small, passionate, execution-focused team.
• Lean, high-ownership environment with direct impact on a flagship project.
• Market-competitive, tax-free USD salaries.
• Paid time off and performance bonus.
• Annual performance reviews.