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Looking for an innovative, creative, passionate, and fun company in OC? Then, let us introduce ourselves. We are MobilityWare and we make fun for a living! Our mobile games have been rocking the app store since its inception and we regularly show up in top lists for most popular games. We recently reached over 350 million downloads across our portfolio of games!

We've been voted 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 Best Places to Work in Orange County by the Orange County Business Journal and OC Register! Headquartered in Irvine, CA., our flagship game, Solitaire, was released on the day the App Store opened in 2008. Other titles include Blackjack, FreeCell, Destination Solitaire and Spider Solitaire, to name a few. Our vision is to create the most exciting mobile games and have fun doing it.

Position Summary

You are a talented UI Artist/Generalist with a passion for mobile game art. Through iteration, you will work closely with the Art Director and production team to establish the visual direction and ultimately the final in-game art for our mobile products. You will be responsible for conceiving and finishing high quality artwork ranging from stylized buttons and iconography to gorgeous 2D backgrounds.

As a visionary, you will utilize Adobe Suite to create all necessary 2D backgrounds, game elements and UI, with an emphasis on creating art that communicates the needed visual language for casual mobile games. You will report to the project Art Director.

Responsibilities

  • Create impactful background environmental designs, prop designs, and UI such as buttons, frames, icons, etc.
  • Create beautiful and attractive 2D artwork and/or illustrations aimed for a mobile game audience.
  • Use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create original high-quality vector artwork or layered images that resonates with our customers.
  • Utilize your excellent design skills, including the effective use of color, form, lighting, composition, and aesthetics to fulfill each project’s needs.
  • Create art style guide and placeholder artwork to guide development throughout each cycle of the project.
  • Create a wide range of art styles from whimsical to realistic.
  • Be a part of an efficient team that works to bring new games to market within 3-9 months.

Qualifications

  • Prefer 1-5 year of Mobile Game art creation experience.
  • Able to provide samples of your Photoshop work.
  • Able to provide samples of your Illustrator (vector) work.
  • Able to provide samples of excellent artistic design skills such as: color, form, lighting, composition, and intuitive design.

Why you should work for us

  • Awesome Perks: free lunch, free snacks, free drink, free Annual Company trip
  • Casual workplace - yes, flip flops and shorts are pretty much an everyday thing
  • Growth, growth, growth - we are growing and we would love for you to join us on the ride
  • We also want to take care of our team so we've got profit sharing incentives, medical, dental (100% paid), vision (100% paid), Unlimited PTO/Vacation, life insurance (100% paid), and 401K
  • Awesome office smack dab in the middle of OC and 2 minutes off the 5 freeway
  • Amazing talent: We've got some heavy hitters from the industry who embody both brilliance AND humility