Senior UI Artist

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior UI Artist to join our team.

The Senior UI Artist partners with Project Leads to help define and execute the UI vision for the product. This role contributes to creating intuitive, visually compelling, and user-centered interface designs that enhance usability and deliver a high-quality mobile game experience. The Senior UI Artist focuses on crafting interaction and visual solutions that improve accessibility, clarity, and overall player experience, informed by user insights and testing.

Responsibilities include participating in all stages of the UI design process, including concept development, prototyping, user and task flows, visual asset production, and in-engine implementation.

The Senior UI Artist collaborates closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure consistency and quality across the product’s visual language and interaction patterns. This role works in partnership with the Experience Design Director, Art Director, Product Management, and Engineering teams to maintain brand integrity and successfully execute the UI vision within the game.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate with the product and design teams to conceptualize, define, and develop features that yield outstanding experiences for our players
• Synthesize the needs of players and all game departments to find solutions that work for all.
• Create user flows, interface wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation.
• Employ the classic design process of defining problems, researching, analyzing, designing, and validating results.
• Create UI design/layouts
• Create high-fidelity mock-ups for pre-visualization during pre-production
• Create UI art and visual design for user interfaces
• Develop mood boards and help guide the visual design of features
• Collaborate with the art team to define and stick to a thematic art style
• Participate in the planning and moderating of user testing
• Conduct market competitor research and deconstructs
• Participate in researching consumer insight, developing personas, and analyzing data
• Prepare assets for implementation in the game engine
• Partner with technical artists and engineers to implement user interface game assets in the game engine
• Be the owner of UI for game feature pods
• Mentor junior UI/UX staff

What You Bring: 

• 4+ years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UI/UX
• Demonstrated ability to adapt and adhere to an established visual style and build upon it
• Able to consistently produce high-quality visual assets for user interfaces
• Very proficient with standard creative software such as the Adobe Creative Suite
• Very proficient with UI layout & design tools (Figma, Sketch, or similar tools)
• Familiarity with collaborative virtual environments (Miro, FigJam)
• Competent at designing and authoring functional UI animation
• Experienced in traditional game development methods and processes
• Well-practiced and proficient with creating user interfaces in game engines (like Unity or Unreal)
• Skills with collaborating and partnering with technical team members such as Tech Art and Engineering
• Experienced in working with the limitations and standard methodologies of developing games for mobile devices
• Education: Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area required. A combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor's degree

What We Offer You : 

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits