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We are looking for a UI Artist to join our team.
The UI Artist partners with Project Leads to help define and execute the UI vision for the product. This role contributes to creating intuitive, visually compelling, and user-centered interface designs that enhance usability and deliver a high-quality mobile game experience. The UI Artist focuses on crafting interaction and visual solutions that improve accessibility, clarity, and overall player experience, informed by user insights and testing.
Responsibilities include participating in all stages of the UI design process, including concept development, prototyping, user and task flows, visual asset production, and in-engine implementation.
The UI Artist collaborates closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure consistency and quality across the product’s visual language and interaction patterns. This role works in partnership with the Experience Design Director, Art Director, Product Management, and Engineering teams to maintain brand integrity and successfully execute the UI vision within the game.
What You Will Do:
- Collaborate with the product and design teams to conceptualize, define, and develop features that yield outstanding experiences for our players
- Synthesize the needs of players and all game departments to find solutions that work for all.
- Create user flows, interface wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation.
- Employ the classic design process of defining problems, researching, analyzing, designing, and validating results.
- Create UI design/layouts
- Create high-fidelity mock-ups for pre-visualization during pre-production
- Create UI art and visual design for user interfaces
- Develop mood boards and help guide the visual design of features
- Collaborate with the art team to define and stick to a thematic art style
- Participate in the planning and moderating of user testing
- Conduct market competitor research and deconstructs
- Participate in researching consumer insight, developing personas, and analyzing data
- Prepare assets for implementation in the game engine
- Partner with technical artists and engineers to implement user interface game assets in the game engine
- Be the owner of UI for game feature pods
What You Bring:
- 2–4 years of experience as a UI Artist in the game industry.
- Strong portfolio showcasing high-quality game UI and visual design work. (Portfolio link is a must)
- Good understanding of visual design principles, typography, layout, color, and composition for game interfaces.
- Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or similar design tools.
- Experience creating UI assets such as menus, HUDs, icons, buttons, and other interface elements.
- Hands-on experience implementing and integrating UI in Unity using Canvas, prefabs, and UI workflows.
- Ability to work closely with game designers, artists, and developers to deliver polished interfaces.
- Basic understanding of UI animation, transitions, and interactive states.
- Familiarity with version control and collaborative tools is a plus.
- Ability to maintain visual consistency while following an established art style.
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Game Art, or a related field is preferred (or equivalent professional experience).
What We Offer You :
Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at [email protected] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.
Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Zynga’s in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, take2games.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).
Skills Required
- 2-4 years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UI/UX
- Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area (or equivalent experience)
- Portfolio link (mandatory)
- Very proficient with Adobe Creative Suite
- Very proficient with UI layout & design tools (Figma, Sketch, or similar)
- Familiarity with collaborative virtual environments (Miro, FigJam)
- Competent at designing and authoring functional UI animation
- Experienced with creating user interfaces in game engines (Unity or Unreal)
- Ability to produce high-fidelity mock-ups, prototypes, user flows, and design documentation
- Experience working within mobile game development constraints and methodologies
- Strong collaboration skills with technical artists, engineers, product management, and art teams
What the Team is Saying
Zynga Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is positioned as comprehensive, featuring medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, an EAP, and wellness programs as core offerings. Employer-paid premiums for employees and support for dependents are emphasized to keep costs manageable.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous and inclusive for all new parents, complemented by fertility support, adoption assistance, and emergency childcare. Additional partnerships and programs reinforce family-building and return-to-work support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is characterized by flexible or “unlimited” PTO/DTO alongside paid holidays and sick leave. This breadth of time-off options is highlighted as a core element of the package.
Zynga Insights
What We Do
Zynga was founded in 2007 with the vision that play would become one of the core activities on the Internet. We pioneered social games with the belief that if we could make games simple, accessible and social the world would start playing. We are excited that games have grown to become the second most popular activity by time spent, even surpassing email. But we have a lot of hard work, innovation and growth ahead of us to create a future where social gaming is a daily habit for everyone.
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