Senior UI Motion, VFX Artist – Mobile F2P Games

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Serbia.

📋 Description

• Develop refined UI animations, transitions, and interaction feedback for mobile gameplay, menus, events, offers, and reward flows.

• Create visual effects for rewards and celebrations, including coin bursts, glows, sparkles, light sweeps, multipliers, prize reveals, and winning moments.

• Animate static UI screens with effective timing, pacing, anticipation, impact, and readability.

• Collaborate with UI/UX Designers to enhance hierarchy, clarity, and emotional resonance through motion.

• Work alongside Game Designers and Product teams to emphasize key player motivations such as rewards, progression, streaks, bonuses, and achievements.

• Coordinate with Unity Engineers to implement, fine-tune, and optimize UI animations and effects within the game.

• Contribute to the creation of reusable motion patterns and feedback systems that are scalable across features.

• Ensure high visual quality while adhering to mobile performance, memory, and production limitations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in producing high-quality UI motion, animation, and/or visual effects for mobile free-to-play games, generally with over 5 years of relevant experience in the gaming industry.

• A strong portfolio showcasing polished reward feedback, celebratory moments, transitions, and animated UI systems.

• Profound understanding of animation principles, including timing, easing, anticipation, follow-through, impact, staging, and rhythm.

• Capability to create motion that enhances clarity and emotional impact rather than merely serving as visual decoration.

• Experience with game engines, preferably Unity.

• Strong comprehension of premium mobile game polish, free-to-play reward presentation, and player motivation.

• Comfortable working collaboratively with UI/UX Designers, Artists, Game Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers.

• Ability to iterate swiftly based on feedback and production requirements.

• Knowledge of mobile performance considerations related to animation, particle effects, and UI elements.

• Nice to Have

• Proficient Unity implementation skills, including Animator, Timeline, particle systems, prefabs, UI animation, and optimization.

• Familiarity with tools such as After Effects, Spine, Rive, Lottie, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or similar applications.

• Experience in creating particle effects, shaders, animated materials, or light/glow treatments.

• Background in supporting LiveOps features, events, offers, bundles, reward screens, and monetization flows.

• Experience in developing motion style guides, reusable animation libraries, or UI feedback systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive market salary in tax-free USD

• Paid Time Off

• Performance Bonus

• Annual Performance Reviews