PopReach is a free-to-play game publisher acquiring and optimizing proven, profitable games and game franchises. With over 140 smart and creative professionals at studios in Vancouver, Toronto, London, and Bangalore, we are 100% focused on making great games available for download on your phone, tablet, or desktop.
Founded in 2015 by some of the most successful individuals in the mobile games business, PopReach is looking for people who know what it takes to excel in that environment: determination, self-directedness, creative problem solving, and an A+ team player.
This role is a unique opportunity to help bring the popular Payday shooter franchise to mobile for the first time! Regularly in the top 15 games played on Steam, Payday is beloved by millions of people around the world.
What You'll Do:
- Work closely with producers, game designers, artists, and engineers to create wireframes, user-flows, and interfaces for a mobile shooter game.
- Define, document, and champion a consistent UI Style Guide to maintain a strong UI visual identity that is cohesive with the theme, style, and feel of the brand.
- Evolve rough ideas into polished user flows and pixel-perfect interfaces.
- Conceive transitions and animated effects to enhance gameplay and tutorials.
- Collaborate with designers to interpret user tests and interviews to identify areas to optimize the user experience.
- Create visually appealing static and animated UI art assets ranging from full-screen layouts to icons.
- Accountable for meeting project timelines.
What You Bring:
- Prior game development experience as a UI Artist in the game industry.
- Strong portfolio of shipped games; ideally in the free-to-play mobile market.
- Ability to take complex information and turn it into user-friendly UI design.
- Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, and the Unity engine.
- Demonstrable aptitude in wireframing, graphic design, and interface design.
- A track record of excelling with little supervision.
- Ability to accept and provide direction, work well under pressure, and handle multiple tasks.
- Self-motivated with considerable attention to detail.
- Ability and willingness to tackle technical challenges and quickly learn new tools and industry trends.
Bonus Points:
- Has played PayDay 2 before.
- Experience with Doozy UI and Unity Adressables.
- Familiarity with BitBucket, Jira, Confluence.
- Experience with developing both original and IP-based titles.
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent. Please note only candidates with authorization to work in Canada will be considered.
COVID-19 considerations: We are working from home with the option of working together socially distanced in the office a few days a week.
At PopReach, we embrace and value diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We strive to grow and foster an amazing team that appreciates a variety in backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills. We truly thank you for your interest, we'd love to hear from you!