Senior UI/UX Artist & Illustrator

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

The Table Games UX/UX Designer focus specializes in developing and maintaining the operation, user interface, user experience, and functionality of Electronic Table Games. Designs felt and electronic table game layout, content, user interface graphics, logos, icons, and infrastructure for product release and table game product offering.

Essential Job Functions:

• Passionate about resolving user pain points through effective & efficient design

• Create, innovate, and design electronic table game wireframes and flow charts for comfortable and exciting user gameplay experience

• Design and create attractive user interface art and experiences in photoshop and or illustrator

• Work closely with the art director to come up with and iterate on multiple UI design variations, layouts, and logos design solutions.

• Concept and render characters, environments, props, icons, VFX if need be

• Advocates for design solutions with rationale including business and user goals

• Make design adjustments based on art director, product, game design, user, etc. feedback

Qualifications

Training and/or Experience:

• 5+ years of experience- exceptions are made with a high caliber portfolio and eloquence that demonstrates senior level knowledge and maturity

• Prior gaming industry experience is preferred but not required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Innovative yet user centric design abilities

• Strong knowledge on accessibility & usability principles

• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills

• Experience with a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Protopie, Adobe XD, Photoshop and Illustrator.

• Proven experience in designing user experiences for published applications (including games of any type) with a strong portfolio showcasing your design process and outcomes.

• Knowledge in Stakeholder interviews, Value proposition mapping, and Competitive research

• Creating user personas, scenarios, sketches, wire frames, and prototypes

• Creating detailed design specification/design system

• Optimizing interactions & conduct remote usability tests

• Validate the emotional impact of designs

• Ensure design standards, guidelines, and best practices are adhered to

• Familiarity with interaction design and information architecture

• Proficiency in unity and being able to implement UI assets is a plus

• Ability to concept, sketch, render characters, environment, and objects is a plus

• 3D modeling skills for use on UI or logo is a plus (Blender, Maya, and or 3D Studio Max)

• Photoshop paint and rendering skill is a plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent work experience required

Physical Requirements: 

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions:

• The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses.  As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.   In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles.  As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. 

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