2D/UI Artist, Mobile Games Job at PerBlue, Madison, WI

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  • PerBlue
  • Madison, WI

Job Description

PerBlue is looking for our next great 2D/UI Artist to join our team of experienced mobile game creators. Our selected candidates will be proficient in creating mobile game assets and UI and will have worked on commercially successful titles.

We're a growing independent studio whose free-to-play midcore mobile games have been played by millions of people around the world, including our award-winning Disney Heroes: Battle Mode game.

Our team brings experience from major studios across the videogame industry. Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, we also work remotely around the United States and Canada for an unmatched quality of life and work.

Principal Responsibilities

You'll work side-by-side with our cross-functional team of game creators to create amazing experiences for our players around the world! Our ideal candidate will have significant professional experience creating finished 2D assets and UI material for shipped, financially successful games. You'll have a refined portfolio demonstrating expertise in creating the visual style for video games generally, with a focus on mobile strategy/RPG games highly desired. We look for passionate ownership of the visual creation of video game assets, and an orientation toward teamwork.

You'll be an experienced 2D generalist delivering pixel-perfect assets for one of our new games, including
  • Creating and refining a new game's UI look and feel, wireframes, layouts and design
  • Creating storyboards and game flow and helping shape our games' visual style
  • Using your strengths in strong visual development skills and design direction to drive the look and feel of impactful rewards moments and flavor illustrations
  • Advanced digital painting for icons, UI elements, and composite spot art
  • Exporting clean, game-ready assets such as 9 sliced buttons, optimized UI assets, optimized props, splash art, and others
  • Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience in game development workflows and processes.

Minimum Qualifications
  • 4+ years as a professional 2D artist, including professional experience working in UI
  • Core understanding of art fundamentals, including but not limited to color theory, shape language, readability, and values.
  • Professional understanding of the constraints and tradeoffs of mobile game production and liveops
  • Experience with delivering against complex art specs and documentation
  • Expert knowledge of Photoshop
  • Experience with Jira/Confluence or other major collaboration software
  • Outstanding collaboration and written/verbal communications skills

Additional desired experience to highlight in your application
  • Familiarity with the constraints and opportunities in character-driven mobile RPG/strategy games
  • Experience working with external art vendors, specifically paintover experience
  • Experience creating UI animation mockups in After Effects or other preferred programs.
  • Experience working in Unity

Your personal attributes
  • Loves high-quality art and design
  • Passion for all things related to mobile game art with amazing technical skills
  • Desire and willingness to learn new technology and tools
  • Effective communicator and collaborator in both creative and development setting
  • Thrives in a results-focused environment
  • Actively participate in PerBlue's efforts to be a welcoming, inclusive and diverse workplace.

Compensation and Benefits

We are a remote-first company headquartered in downtown Madison, Wisconsin with team members based throughout North America. We offer a competitive base salary range of $65k-$75k in US or Canadian dollars (based on location); incentive bonus structure; 6+ weeks of paid time off; comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; a well-matched 401k; flexible hours; and a variety of other perks including daily lunch delivery!

You'll be part of a passionate, welcoming, and collaborative team that has received several "Best Place to Work" awards by a variety of publications. We are headquartered in the vibrant neighborhood around beautiful downtown Madison.

No agencies, please. This is a pretty good outline of this position but is not a comprehensive job description, so other responsibilities and duties may be assigned as needed. We regret that we cannot consider visa sponsorship or candidates based outside of the United States or Canada for this position at this time.

Job Tags

Remote job, Flexible hours,

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