Company Description
Ubisoft Barcelona, part of Ubisoft’s international network of production studios, has developed for over 20 years a strong expertise in the production of videogames from a large variety of genres and platforms. The Studio is continuously looking to grow its team with highly professional, passionate and talented people.
During these years, the studio worked on the following franchises: “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon®”, “Assassin’s Creed®” , “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege” or “Star Trek™: Bridge Crew” on VR…
The team is currently working on the “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege” Live Game, Beyond Good & Evil 2, Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's The Division 2.
Job Description
As a UI Artist you will be responsible for the conception, production and improvement of the user experience of Ubisoft Connect. You will work closely with the Creative, Design and Art teams to design, mockup and participate in the creation of all the graphic assets.
Responsibilities:
- Conceptualize original ideas that bring consistency, simplicity and user friendliness to the product.
- Create UI assets that follow the design guidelines of the brand.
- Create detailed and flexible wireframes adapted to multiple resolutions and devices.
- Create highly polished motion graphics and final assets that go beyond the industry standard.
- Create functional prototypes for rapid iterations and communication for key elements and features.
- Elaborate on accessibility and inclusive design and make sure, they are part of the whole design cycle.
- Continuously optimize user experience, usability and accessibility of the user by iterating your designs based on user research, quantitative data and user tests.
- Work as part of the design team and within the guidelines provided by direction.
- Collaborate with developers and provide them with clear specifications of UX and UI components and follow-up on final implementation of all features to ensure proper execution
- Conceptualize original ideas that bring consistency, simplicity and user friendliness to the product.
Qualifications
Hard Skills:
- 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Academic degree in UI-UX design, graphic design or a related qualification.
- Portfolio showing your ability to solve design problems, innovating and designing enjoyable experiences for users.
- Ability to work within a continuous flow environment (ability to think holistically while building and learning iteratively).
- Knowledge of interaction design and user behavior.
- Proficiency in prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD or similar).
- Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects or other visual design tools.
- Knowledge and interest in accessibility and inclusive design.
- Ability to create functional prototypes in different fidelity-stages.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to prioritize assignments in order to anticipate and meet multiple deadlines.
- Fluent in English, both verbally and written.
- Ability to learn quickly.
- Up-to-date with the latest UI and UX trends, techniques and technologies.
Soft Skills:
- Passion for user interface, art and design
- Passion for games and strong game culture.
- Problem-solving and open minded.
- Flexibility and ability to adapt to change
- Sense of initiative, attention to details
- Working well in a team environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken
- Updating job knowledge proactively
- Able to work with different art styles to reach the desired aesthetic.
Additional Information
Few words about Ubisoft Barcelona studio:
The studio is located in one of the most popular urban area of Europe: Barcelona! I bet that you know Barcelona for sure! Either for its amazing architecture, monuments and parks, famous nightlife with bars, restaurants and clubs, super weather and beaches, popular sport culture or for its great life quality.
Here in Barcelona, as well as in the studio, you will meet people from around the world, eat hundreds of different food, play different sports, talk about art and history, share amazing life experience with creative, open-mind and dynamic people. Exciting no?
As employee as much as citizen, we encourage you to inspire the world and build the future! We promote a friendly, creative and passionate culture for our talented team to produce the best AAA games in the videogames industry. We also encourage all our employees to invest time in playing any type of games, and if it’s together, even better!
In Barcelona studio, everyone feels like at home!
Are you ready to join the Ubi family for your new challenge? We are already excited to have you!
List of benefits:
- Monthly Restaurant tickets
- Preferential price for medical insurance
- Sports / activities deal
- Access to transport tax deductions
- Free access to all Ubisoft games (PC)
- Discount for Ubisoft console games
- Fresh fruits / drinks
- Monday Morning Breakfast
- Friday afternoon free
- Goodies
- Flexible working hours
- Team building events
- Assistance for opening Bank account
- Assistance for house contract/ documentation review
- Assistance for local registration (NIE, SSN, Tax)
