Team Name Overwatch Rush
Job Title Senior UI Artist | Overwatch Rush
Requisition ID R027481
Job Description
At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic experiences beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations. This is made possible by building a work environment that nurtures the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people.
As a Senior UI Artist, you will help drive the visual design, creation, and implementation of user interfaces for Blizzard's next great game. You will define and build upon the project's UI visual identity and design language, ensuring a consistent, high‐quality player experience across core gameplay and meta.
You will have the opportunity to be a key contributor within an exciting art team, shaping UI features from concept through implementation and polish. You will partner with experienced UI artists, UX designers, technical artists, engineers, and game designers to create extraordinary game experiences that will be played by millions.
We're a close but inclusive team that welcomes new members with open arms. We care about each other, the games we build, and how we create them. We can't wait to meet you!
Responsibilities
Work closely with the Lead UI Artist to help define, evolve, and uphold the UI art style, visual presentation, and quality benchmarks.
Create and implement appealing, user‐friendly, innovative, and crisp user interfaces—including menus, buttons, icons, frames, pop‐ups, transitions, and animation—aligned with usability, readability, and mobile best practices.
Create sketches, concepts, mock‐ups, motion previews, storyboards, and finished artwork that clearly communicate ideas and support production through implementation.
Apply and maintain a consistent look and feel across the game's UI, ensuring visual accuracy and alignment with the project's artistic direction, gameplay needs, and player experience goals.
Deliver art to the required levels of quality, workflow efficiency, and content scalability, while helping drive polish and visual consistency to a high‐quality final state.
Collaborate closely with UI artists, UX designers, technical artists, engineers, and 2D/3D artists to bring features from concept to polished implementation.
Minimum Requirements
5+ years of experience crafting high‐quality UI elements and implementing them efficiently into games or related entertainment products.
Experience in understanding what creates a great user experience and how to deliver on the needs of the game platform across a variety of UI surfaces.
Strong visual and graphic design skills, with a high bar for polish, readability, and consistency.
Awareness of current trends in user interface art for desktop and mobile games.
Skilled in clear communication within a dynamic, cross‐discipline, and fast‐iterative workspace.
Experience developing and maintaining UI/UX wireframes and flows with Figma or other prototyping tools.
Knowledge & Skills
Strong understanding of fundamental graphic design principles, including color, composition, information hierarchy, and typography.
Strong skills in creating game UI content, including buttons, menus, pop‐ups, HUD elements, icons, frames, and other decorative interface assets.
Strong understanding of motion and how it enhances UI, communicates clearly, and supports a polished player experience.
Knowledgeable in the technical aspects of creating in‐game UI, covering the full end‐to‐end pipeline and adept at implementing art efficiently, with a focus on clean, structured, and optimized processes.
Knowledge of industry standard software for creating UI art and relevant game engines for implementation.
Experience using interface design tools such as Figma or similar.
Strong understanding of fundamental User Experience (UX) Design principles and how to translate them into visually compelling, production‐ready UI.
Ability to understand and build upon an established visual identity and design language while maintaining consistency across a product.
Key Attributes
A passion for making high‐quality games in a cross‐discipline, collaborative team.
A champion for creating great User Experiences for our players and for maintaining a cohesive visual language across the UI.
A natural problem‐solver, keen to do what's right for the UI art, the player experience, and the game as a whole.
A proactive contributor who takes ownership of features, drives work to a polished state, and helps raise the quality bar through feedback, craft, and example.
Great skills in communication and organization.
Nice to Have
Experience with Unity game development.
Experience creating UI art for mobile or cross‐platform games.
Experience working in 3D and/or 3D camera work.
Technical skills (shader creation, VFX, and/or procedural content creation tools).
Abilities in motion design and/or 2D animation.
Experience in font design and creation.
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