Can you take our players on a journey? Do you want to create the world's best mobile games? We need UI talent to help us level up. You'll drive our team forward to deliver experiences that delight players across the world.

Your Role Within our Kingdom

We are looking for an experienced UI Designer to lead various UI initiatives for Candy. You’ll share best practices of efficient work with UI designers, UX Designers, Game Designers, User Researchers, Developers, Game Artists and Technical Artists. You have the willingness and ability to manage people, to grow their skills, and coach them in their career development. With your positive attitude and natural ability to work with people, you will support the creation of high quality deliverables that strike a harmonious balance between player and business needs in designing effectively and optimising user interface systems. 

You will support production of Candy features and champion UI initiatives, working closely with the UI designers, producers and art leadership to help bring up the product end result to the next level. With your passion for player centric design, you will mentor your team members to make their designs even more user friendly and accessible.

As a member of the Candy team you’ll participate in a cross- location collaboration. We believe your communication and organisation skills will help you to champion our cooperation on features and information exchange among the teams.

Please apply in English. A portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skill is required.

Skills to Create Thrills

•  You have experience in UI design for mobile games

• You have a well- developed sense of visual aesthetics

• You are great at articulating design decisions

• You are confident in analysing design specs 

• You have knowledge of technical constraints and assets optimisation

• You can apply interaction and communication design to your work

• Great understanding of how to produce appealing UI in style within the available time frame and resources

• You have strong leadership skills 

• You are eager to manage others and bring their talent to the next level

• You are adaptable to change and able to convey it to the team

• You are structured and champion documentation to secure your work and knowledge sharing

Bonus Points

• Experience in line management

• Experience in user testing and player validation

• Experience working in an agile project environment

What makes King a great place to work is all our people. We’re powered by a determination to be better tomorrow than we are today - and to have some fun along the way. So we offer sweet benefits and perks to match.

• Competitive pay

We always check the market to make sure our pay is competitive. And we have profit sharing to reward our people for having an impact at King.

• Coverage for the important life stuff

We make sure you can plan for the future. We’ve got you covered with medical insurance, financial saving plans, and other local offerings depending on where you live.

• Time off

We have a generous holiday allowance, most of our offices close between 25 December and the New Year, and you can take a day to volunteer and give back to your community.

• Learning opportunities are everywhere

Learn@King has hundreds of courses, books, and resources you can access anytime. Want to advance your C++, or Java skills? How about a live drawing workshop? We’ve got those too. We also do special assignments for on the job learning and we’re part of Activision Blizzard so career options are everywhere.

• Next level workspaces

We have open spaces, desks on wheels, jam boards, cosy nooks for when you need to get in the zone, and rooms for teams to map it all out. Since our job is making the world playful we also have ping pong tables, cosy couches, and gaming zones. Yep, coffee, healthy snacks, drinks, and breakfast too.

• Wellbeing

Wellbeing is important to us. Doing your best work requires being your best self. Our offices either have a gym on site or offer a gym & wellbeing allowance.

• Employee networks to connect with people

Our employee networks bring people together. You can get involved in the planning or just enjoy perks! Whether its theatre trips, fitness classes, conversations on inclusion, or Pride, passionate employees make it all happen.

• Kingfomarket

We don’t want to brag but Kingfomarket is kind of a big deal. Every year the entire company gets together to learn, share ideas, focus on the future, and celebrate our wins. Our events in general are epic but Kingfomarket is one of a kind.

• Carbon offsetting

We want a playful and sustainable world so we participate in CO2 offsetting each year to make us carbon neutral across our office footprint, business travel, and game’s servers energy consumption.

• King Swag

Use your Royal Store tokens to get some sweet headphones or a King trolley (that’s a suitcase for our US peeps). You’ll get new tokens every year so don’t forget to pick out a gift for your friends who are candy crushing over the fact that you work for King.