The Role
Design and prototype UI/UX for a new mobile narrative game: create wireframes, interactive prototypes, UI assets, style guides, VFX/animations, and ensure scalable interfaces across devices while collaborating with Game Design, Art, and Engineering.
Summary Generated by Built In
As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re searching for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
PERKS & BENEFITS
Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
Yoga & Wellness Activities
Happy Hours
Company Events
Dog Friendly
We are looking for an experienced UI/UX Designer to bring their expert game UI/UX skills to help build a new game within our Narrative studio, the team behind the hit mobile game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with top industry talent and contribute to the development of a new title, from initial concept to final product.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design wireframes, flows, and interactive prototypes to define the user experience for a new mobile narrative game
- Build and maintain the UI style guide and UX documentation, ensuring clarity and consistency across the product as it evolves through development
- Create high-quality, user-friendly UI assets aligned with the game’s art direction and design needs
- Provide cohesive UI design spanning the full player experience - from narrative gameplay and puzzle interactions to systems, progression, and monetization interfaces
- Collaborate closely with Game Design, Art, and Engineering to translate high-level goals into intuitive, visually compelling UI/UX solutions
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on UI/UX concepts based on team feedback, usability testing, and player insights
- Ensure interface scalability and responsiveness across a range of devices and screen resolutions
- Research market trends and competitive titles to inform innovative and genre-appropriate UI/UX design
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 - 5 years of experience designing UI/UX for mobile games
- Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices for mobile UX
- Proficient in creating wireframes, flows, and interactive prototypes using tools like Figma
- Strong experience in UI art, including creating polished game-ready assets such as icons, buttons, menus, HUDs, and other visual elements
- Strong visual/graphic design foundation - typography, layout, composition, color theory, and information hierarchy
- Strong background in the design and implementation of UI VFX, animations, and transitions to enhance user feedback
- Proficiency with Unity, including integrating UI assets and understanding engine constraints
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams (Art, Design, Engineering)
- Outstanding creativity and drive; Passion for narrative-driven or puzzle-based gameplay and crafting intuitive player experiences
- Comfortable working in an iterative, feedback-driven environment with evolving design goals
- on-site 5x week.
NICE TO HAVE
- Focused experience in UI art and visual design, with proven ownership of UI visual style and asset production
- Experience shipping a new mobile title from concept to live operations
- Background working on narrative-driven or puzzle adventure games
- Familiarity with licensed IP and brand guideline constraints
CHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:
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- Employee Feedback on our Comparably page
- Find videos on our teams and games on our Youtube
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION
We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more.
Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.
ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is a leading entertainment studio with a proven track record of creating some of the world’s most beloved casual puzzle and story-driven mobile games. As the creative force behind fan-favorite, award-winning titles such as Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Cookie Jam and Panda Pop, Jam City develops engaging and dynamic games that become an enduring part of our players’ lives. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with a global network of studios and talent. For more information, please visit www.jamcity.com.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience designing UI/UX for mobile games
- Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and mobile UX best practices
- Proficient in creating wireframes, flows, and interactive prototypes using tools like Figma
- Strong experience in UI art and producing polished game-ready assets (icons, buttons, menus, HUDs)
- Strong visual/graphic design foundation (typography, layout, composition, color theory, information hierarchy)
- Strong background in UI VFX, animations, and transitions to enhance user feedback
- Proficiency with Unity, including integrating UI assets and understanding engine constraints
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams
- Passion for narrative-driven or puzzle-based gameplay and crafting intuitive player experiences
- Comfortable working in an iterative, feedback-driven environment
- On-site 5x week
- Focused experience owning UI visual style and asset production
- Experience shipping a new mobile title from concept to live operations
- Background working on narrative-driven or puzzle adventure games
- Familiarity with licensed IP and brand guideline constraints
Jam City Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jam City and has not been reviewed or approved by Jam City.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options are consistently characterized as strong, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, and life insurance. Solid coverage is highlighted as a plus across benefits descriptions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous or “unlimited” PTO alongside paid holidays, sick leave, bereavement, and parental leave is widely listed. These time-off provisions are positioned as strengths even when base pay may not be top-of-market.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks such as pet-friendly offices, commuter benefits, snacks/drinks, company events, and wellness activities are commonly showcased. Remote/hybrid options further support day-to-day flexibility and work–life balance.
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The Company
What We Do
Jam City is an award-winning entertainment company providing unique and deeply engaging mobile games that are played by tens of millions of people across the globe. Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date. The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018. Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto. The Jam City team is known for its creative excellence and technological innovation in key areas including storytelling, data science and audience insights.
