Job description
What We are looking for:
We are looking for a Senior Technical UI Designer to join our team, specializing in building and implementing UI systems in-engine with a technical and artistic sensibility. This role bridges the gap between UI art and in-game functionality, ensuring UI concepts translate smoothly into interactive, shippable experiences.
What You Will Do:
- Implement UI elements, menus, widgets, and HUDs directly in Unreal Engine 5 ensuring high-quality presentation and usability.
- Prototype and iterate on UI interactions to refine user experience and optimize responsiveness in-game.
- Work closely with engineers to hook up UI elements to game systems intelligently, ensuring seamless interaction between UI and gameplay mechanics.
- Evaluate and improve UI workflows by suggesting and prototyping tools and pipeline improvements.
- Collaborate with UI/UX designers, game designers, and engineers to design, test, and refine UI systems and ensure an efficient integration process.
- Contribute to UI animation and motion design, ensuring polished, smooth transitions and feedback mechanisms for players.
- Work alongside both in-house and outsourced artists to bring UI designs from concept to final implementation.
What you will bring:
- Expertise in UI implementation in Unreal Engine 5 (or similar game engines), including Blueprint scripting and working with UI-related systems like UMG.
- Ability to translate static UI concepts into interactive, functional, and shippable assets, maintaining high quality and performance.
- Experience prototyping and refining UI interactions, focusing on fluidity, clarity, and user feedback.
- Experience with animation and motion design for UI elements to enhance engagement and usability.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to proactively identify solutions
- A collaborative and iterative mindset, able to receive feedback and refine designs
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or other UI/UX design tools, with an emphasis on bringing designs into a game engine.
Interested… a bit about Escape Velocity:
Escape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits, on what we believe is a unique project with a committed publisher. But that doesn’t necessarily make us unique. What does make us special? We value the time, energy, and talent of our players and our colleagues. We want every hour spent developing and playing our games to be an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile use of your time.
To that end, we are ‘Fully Remote’ and support team members nearly anywhere in the world. We prioritize honesty, even when that means sharing bad news. We strive to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play, and we care more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you’re clocking. We’re dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all. We believe in constant improvement across all areas – from the game itself to our production design – and are constantly re-evaluating how we spend our time to ensure that we’re not wasting yours and we’re all always working on the most important things.
A few benefits you can expect from us:
- A generous PTO allowance
- Summer and Winter holidays studio closure (separate to PTO allowance)
- Private Medical & Dental Healthcare
- Private Mental Health scheme
- A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance
- Discretionary Studio Bonus
- Top range tech for your home set up
- Other benefits based on your region
How to apply:
Click apply and complete an application along with a Resume / CV. If we would like to move forward with your application, a member of the Recruiting Team will reach out to you and guide you through our process.
Escape Velocity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities.
Applications will be considered regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.
