[Hiring] Senior Technical UI Artist @New Moon Production

Role Description

Our Big Farm Homestead team is looking for a skilled Senior Technical UI Artist with a sharp artistic eye and strong experience in Unity Engine to kick ass turning creative ideas into polished, production-ready interfaces! You will own the UI end-to-end: from wireframes and flows to original icons, illustrations and key art, all the way through to in-engine integration. You’ll bridge the gap between design, art and engineering, and make sure every screen our players see is beautiful, intuitive and runs smoothly on mobile.

YOUR MISSION:

• Take end-to-end ownership of UI for features and live ops content: wireframes, mock-ups, user flows, prototypes, original icons and illustrations, final visuals, and in-engine implementation.
• Craft polished, on-brand UI art from scratch: icons, illustrations, banners, offer images, event key art and other custom visual assets that make screens feel premium and lovingly hand-made.
• Work closely with our sister game Sunshine Island: understand their UI designs and underlying intent, adapt them to BFH’s audience and visual language, and share learnings back with the SI team.
• Integrate UI into Unity yourself - building and wiring prefabs, anchors, layouts, responsive scaling - in close cooperation with programmers and tech artists.
• Bring UI to life with animation in Unity (Timeline, DOTween, Animator) to create polished transitions, feedback and juice.
• Maintain and extend our UI design system - including the icon and illustration library - to keep visual and interaction consistency across the product.
• Apply UI/UX best practices for mobile devices and advocate for the player across the team.
• Collaborate closely with game design, art, balancing, QA and engineering - challenging UX where it can be better, and unblocking others when UI is the bottleneck.
• Keep an eye on the latest tooling (including AI-assisted workflows) and bring improvements back to our processes.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional experience in UI/UX design and UI production in the mobile gaming industry.
• Strong artistic skills with a portfolio of UI artwork: original icons, illustrations, banners and event/offer visuals you have produced from concept to final asset.
• Proven hands-on experience integrating UI in Unity (UGUI, prefabs, anchors, layouts, responsive scaling for mobile).
• Strong UI animation skills in Unity using Timeline, DOTween, Animator or equivalent.
• Proficient in Figma for design, handoff and design-system work.
• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator) - able to deliver high-quality icons, illustrations, banners, offer images and marketing-adjacent UI art that meets the visual bar of a polished mobile game.
• Comfortable with Git (or equivalent VCS): branching, merging UI assets, resolving conflicts without drama.
• Excellent communication skills in English and a strong collaborative mindset - able to work effectively across disciplines and time zones, explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and proactively raise issues early.
• Solid understanding of UI/UX information architecture, interaction design and industry standards for mobile games.
• A self-motivated individual with a passion for mobile and casual games, strong analytical skills and a strong customer focus.

Requirements

• Curiosity for and hands-on experience with AI image-generation and AI-assisted design tooling, with ideas on how to bring it into a production pipeline.
• Experience with UI shaders / Shader Graph for stylized UI effects.
• Familiarity with Jira and Trello for tracking UI/art tickets.
• Completed degree in Media Psychology, Graphic Design, Game Design or a similar subject.
• Sample work showcasing UI animation and shader experiments in Unity.

Benefits

• Full flexibility: Work remotely or come to our modern office in Hamburg city center close to the Alster.
• Work-life-balance: Competitive annual leave and flexible working hours.
• Join a supportive team in a pragmatic, yet challenging environment, with flat hierarchies and state-of-the-art technologies.
• Work in a multicultural environment with multidisciplinary and experienced colleagues from the entire product lifecycle in a culture of continuous development and learning opportunities.
• Find sparring partners within game design.
• Team building: Strong collaboration between the teams, regular studio events onsite, snacks and drinks available at the office.
• Contribution to public transport ticket (Deutschlandticket) for Germany-based staff.