Lead UI Artist (Game UI)

Location: Guildford, UK; hybrid work with 3 days per week on-site. Candidates must be based in the UK and have the right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are not available.

Company

hirify.global is a video game development studio creating AAA game experiences from offices in Guildford and Utrecht.

What you will do

• Set the UI artistic vision across game projects, covering menus, HUDs, icons, buttons, animations, and interactive elements.
• Lead UI delivery, mentor artists, review work, and raise standards for visual quality, usability, accessibility, and technical implementation.
• Collaborate with designers, artists, engineers, producers, clients, and creative leadership to solve complex UI challenges.
• Develop scalable UI workflows, pipelines, documentation, style guides, and best practices.
• Implement UI in the game engine with engineers while balancing creative goals, performance, and technical constraints.
• Present concepts and recommendations to multidisciplinary teams, senior stakeholders, and external clients.

Requirements

• Significant professional UI development experience across the game development lifecycle; AAA experience is advantageous.
• Proven experience leading UI delivery, mentoring team members, reviewing work, and managing quality across the discipline.
• Strong UI/UX, player-centred design, typography, layout, colour theory, interaction design, illustration, iconography, and technical vector artwork skills across 2D and 3D UI.
• Experience establishing UI workflows, pipelines, documentation, and style guides for scalable production.
• Advanced proficiency with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Adobe XD or equivalent UI design tools; experience implementing UI in Unreal Engine using UMG.
• Strong communication, presentation, planning, prioritisation, stakeholder management, and collaborative leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Basic scripting knowledge in HTML, CSS, XML, XAML, or similar technologies.
• Understanding of memory constraints and balancing artistic intentions with technical limitations.
• AAA game development experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working with 3 days per week on-site.
• International AAA game projects and access to cutting-edge hardware.
• Holiday Accrual Scheme, pension plan, life assurance, and private healthcare including dental and eye care.
• Discretionary bonus scheme and Employee Assistance Programme with wellness support.
• Regular team incentives and social events, with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Hiring process

• Candidate support and reasonable feedback are available throughout the interview process.