Mobile Game UI/UX Artist

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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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YallaPlay

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Venture Round on 2018-09

Gaming • Mobile • Artificial Intelligence

YallaPlay is a pioneering mobile gaming company that focuses on creating great Player vs Player (PvP) mobile games driven by its proprietary YallaPlay Real-time Engine. The company is composed of gaming industry veterans passionate about incorporating technology into games. Leveraging advanced AI technologies, YallaPlay produces immersive, interactive, and globally engaging games with a strength in real-time multiplayer experiences. Their games include 'Spades Masters', a popular mobile card game with strategic gameplay and stunning visuals, and 'Zombie World', an upcoming mobile shooter game with a focus on challenging gameplay and upgradable arsenals. YallaPlay is recognized for its long life cycle games that emphasize player interaction and satisfaction, achieving substantial user engagement and downloads across the globe through platforms like the App Store and Google Play.

📋 Description

• Integrate 2D and 3D game assets with 2D UI layers while maintaining visual hierarchy, depth, and a vibrant mobile aesthetic. • Define the game UI’s artistic vision, layout, and visual polish. • Create high-fidelity, dynamic, colorful mobile UI assets. • Build, scale, and maintain a component-driven UI design system in Figma. • Ensure visual consistency and responsive behavior across mobile devices and aspect ratios. • Develop modular, reusable UI assets from sketches through polished elements. • Use generative AI and AI-driven design tools for brainstorming, mood boards, concepting, and asset generation. • Collaborate with programmers and technical artists to implement Figma designs and 2D/3D UI systems accurately in-engine. • Create user flows, wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, and iconography. • Prioritize mobile player experience, touch targets, ergonomics, and rewarding interactions. • Provide a CV, portfolio, and examples of games, products, features, LiveOps, roadmaps, or performance improvements led.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional game art experience, with at least 3+ years in a UI/UX art role. • Exceptional eye for composition, color theory, typography, and layout. • Specific talent for creating stylized 2D UI art assets for smaller screens. • Strong understanding of modern mobile game meta features, including Battle Passes, collection albums, progression tracks, and reward loops. • Deep working knowledge of mobile game UI design principles, touch interfaces, gesture controls, and iOS/Android platform guidelines. • Experience working on the UI/UX of at least 2 shipped mobile titles. • Portfolio with mobile-specific case studies/references demonstrating visual flair. • Expert-level knowledge of Figma, including auto-layout, nested components, variables, variants, and responsive mobile prototyping. • Strong working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. • Proven track record of creating and managing comprehensive UI design systems and style guides. • Proficiency integrating AI utilities such as Figma AI features, ComfyUI, Leonardo, or similar prompt-based toolsets. • Ability to balance beautiful game art with structured, logical UI organization. • Excellent written and oral communication skills. • Working knowledge of Unity UI, UIElements, or UI Toolkit (nice to have). • Hands-on ability to create, light, or manipulate 3D elements; Blender or 3ds Max preferred (nice to have).

🏖️ Benefits

• Creative Freedom – We trust you to take the lead, bring your ideas to life, and help shape our games and our company. • Real Impact – You’ll work on meaningful projects that reach a global audience. • Collaborative Culture – Small team, big ambition. We keep things fun, respectful, and feedback-driven. • Remote-first and flexible schedule • Digital nomad friendly • Generous paid time off (if applicable) • Paid birthdays off (if applicable) • UAE visa sponsorship (if applicable) • Growth opportunities and access to learning resources • A team that actually loves games—and each other