Game UI Designer
The Game UI Designer is responsible for creating intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces for games and interactive media. This remote contract role involves designing UI layouts, wireframes, and mockups, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance user flows and gameplay clarity, and iterating designs based on playtesting and user feedback to ensure an engaging user experience.
About Careertakes
👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Computer Games.
Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.
What You’ll Do
The Game UI Designer (contract, entry-level) will design clear, engaging user interfaces for games and interactive experiences. You will work remotely with cross-disciplinary teams to translate gameplay needs into cohesive visual systems and implementable assets.
- Create UI layouts, wireframes, mockups, and visual specifications for game screens and HUDs
- Translate design requirements and user flows into consistent UI systems and pattern libraries
- Prepare production-ready assets and documentation for engineers and implementers
- Collaborate with game designers, artists, and engineers to refine interaction, timing, and visual clarity
- Iterate designs quickly based on playtesting feedback, analytics, and usability observations
- Ensure UI supports accessibility, information hierarchy, and responsive/mobile contexts
- Communicate progress and blockers clearly in remote, cross-time-zone workflows
Qualifications (Required)
- Strong visual design and UX fundamentals applied to games or interactive media
- Portfolio demonstrating UI/UX work for games, mobile apps, or playful digital experiences
- Ability to produce wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and polished UI assets
- Proficiency with industry-standard design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar)
- Understanding of user flows, information hierarchy, and accessibility best practices
- Basic implementation awareness (how UI assets are integrated by engineers)
- Proven communication and collaboration skills for remote teams
- Comfortable iterating rapidly from playtesting and feedback
Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with game engines (Unity, Unreal) and their UI systems (uGUI, UI Toolkit, UMG)
- Experience designing UI for mobile games or responsive play experiences
- Experience prototyping animations/interactions and motion design for UI
- Basic front-end/implementation skills (C#, UXML, HTML/CSS) or experience handing off specs to engineers
Role Details & Logistics
- Employment type: Contract
- Seniority level: Entry level
- Location: Remote (United States) — candidates should be able to collaborate across US time zones and maintain reliable remote communication
- Industries: Computer Games
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind.
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