The Role
The Senior UX/UI Designer will create and evolve the UI/UX for a new action game, collaborating closely with teammates to ensure seamless integration and enhance player experience.
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Creating new games is at the heart of Rovio’s DNA, and we are now looking for an experienced UX/UI Designer to add to our brand new action title, Smash Ball, a high-speed, PvP sports game. In this role, you will shape the player experience by creating intuitive and visually appealing interfaces that bring clarity, delight, and style to our game. You will collaborate closely with game designers, artists, and developers while also ensuring our UI/UX vision translates seamlessly into Unity.
Our agile team thrives on collaboration and adaptability, and you will have a key role in guiding visual design direction, championing user-centered design, and supporting the team in balancing speed, creativity, and usability.
The team is primarily based in our Izmir studio, with expansion planned in Barcelona. If you are in Türkiye but not in Izmir yet, we are able to support you with the move. If not in Spain, we are able to provide relocation support.
You will have impact and fun at work by:
- Design and implement UI/UX for mobile games, creating player-centric experiences that balance usability, emotional engagement, and business impact (KPIs).
- Develop UI/UX flows, wireframes, and visual layouts from early exploration to final implementation, ensuring alignment with gameplay and product goals.
- Create and integrate UI and 2D assets (concepts, icons, avatars, backgrounds, animations, particle effects) directly into Unity, ensuring visual consistency and polish.
- Collaborate closely with designers, game leads, PMs, analysts, and UX researchers, actively contributing to planning and design discussions with constructive feedback.
- Document designs clearly and concisely, communicating requirements, goals, and rationale to ensure successful implementation and iteration.
- Stay informed on market trends and reference games, deconstructing and sharing insights to guide innovation in UI/UX design.
- Mentor junior designers, sharing knowledge and setting quality standards for UI/UX practices within the team.
- Contribute creative ideas for game features, ensuring UI/UX solutions enhance gameplay and retention while maintaining high artistic and technical standards.
Experience and skills we are looking for:
- 5+ years of experience as UI/UX designer
- Track record UI/UX experience in the game industry or mobile games as senior or lead UX/UI designer.
- Strong experience implementing UI and 2d elements from scratch in game engines, preferably Unity 3D.
- Process-oriented, familiar with Design Thinking and other UX methods, tools and processes.
- Utilize quantitative and qualitative data for identifying challenges and opportunities and to form hypotheses.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas through verbal, written, and visual means.
- Actively share your game design skills and knowledge with your colleagues.
- Strong collaboration skills within the cross functional team.
- Deep understanding in mobile game usability principles and best practices.
- A deep understanding of the principles of visual and interaction design and experience with user-centred design approaches and methods.
- Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and other visual design and wireframing tools with a well-developed sense of colour and composition
Please submit your application and portfolio in English. We look forward to hearing from you!
We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.
At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or conditions in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at [email protected].
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The Company
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Rovio Entertainment Ltd. is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has seven game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Barcelona (Spain), Montreal and Toronto (Canada), as well as a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. In 2023, Sega Europe Limited acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares, making Rovio a subsidiary of Sega
