- Drive Asset Creation & Craft: Establish and define clean, high-fidelity visual targets and production-ready UI assets, including icons, menus, HUDs, and exceptional UI motion graphics concepts. Support and drive the visual identity of the project, establishing style guides that serve to elevate the entire UI teams’ execution and alignment.
- Lead Technical Integration: Optimize the asset pipeline and work directly with engine tools to support UI Tech Designers, leveraging a solid understanding of technical UI implementation standards. Solve advanced dynamic scaling, localization, and multi-platform layout challenges while strictly enforcing performance budgets, draw call optimizations, modular texture packing, and project-wide file systems.
- Champion Autonomy & Workflow: Collaborate with UX design to create comprehensive UI art solutions with minimal to no supervision. Take end-to-end ownership of full features by managing complex asset pipelines, anticipating technical bottlenecks, and driving iterative design reviews.
- Foster Collaboration & Communication: Partner with Leads, UI Engineers, UX Designers, and the XD Director to define technical constraints, refine workflows, and align cross-functional teams. Articulate art rationale clearly across disciplines, help drive feature reviews, and mentor peer artists to elevate the overall quality bar of the UI Art team.
- Design Mastery: Exceptional eye for core UI art principles, demonstrating expertise in visual hierarchy, color theory, dynamic composition, and typography.
- Production Craft: Proven experience creating high-fidelity, production-ready UI assets, including polished HUDs, icons, and motion graphics concepts.
- Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of technical UI implementation standards, including performance budgets, draw call optimizations, modular texture packing.
- Pipeline Architecture: Experience managing complex asset pipelines, anticipating bottlenecks, and building scalable, future-proof UI file systems.
- Mentorship & Communication: Strong ability to articulate artistic rationale across disciplines and a proven track record of mentoring junior or intermediate team members.
- Advanced proficiency working directly in game engines (e.g., Unreal Engine) and associated UI toolsets (e.g., UMG).
- Strong background in motion graphics, animation, or visual effects specifically tailored to UI feedback loops and dynamic compositions.
Skills Required
- Expertise in visual hierarchy, color theory, dynamic composition, and typography
- Experience creating high-fidelity, production-ready UI assets, including HUDs, icons, and motion graphics concepts
- Understanding of technical UI implementation standards, performance budgets, draw call optimization, and modular texture packing
- Experience managing complex asset pipelines and building scalable UI file systems
- Ability to articulate artistic rationale across disciplines and mentor junior or intermediate team members
- Advanced proficiency with game engines such as Unreal Engine and UI toolsets such as UMG
- Background in motion graphics, animation, or visual effects for UI feedback and dynamic compositions
2K Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave and family support are presented as core offerings across the organization, and feedback suggests these policies are encouraging and useful to many employees.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with employer matching is consistently included, and feedback suggests it is a solid pillar of the package even if details vary by location or role.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, holidays, and discretionary time-off models are emphasized, and feedback suggests the allowance looks generous on paper.
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What We Do
2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment. Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, 2K PGA, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Quarry, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, WWE 2K, and XCOM. At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions, even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!
Why Work With Us
We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We push ourselves creatively to do the best work of our careers. We’re direct, open, and you’ll probably meet some new best friends – along with their dogs – sitting nearby. In short, it’s kinda awesome.
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