Technical UI/UX Designer, 5-month contract

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

📋 Description

• Modify existing UI frameworks for new platforms, resolutions, and input methods.

• Create, implement, and enhance responsive UI layouts suitable for various screen sizes and aspect ratios.

• Develop, adjust, troubleshoot, and refine screens, flows, and interactions directly within the UI toolset.

• Collaborate with engineers to ensure optimal UI performance, responsiveness, and stability.

• Address platform-specific user experience challenges, including controller navigation, readability, and accessibility.

• Uphold consistency with the game's visual style, information hierarchy, and interaction patterns.

• Test, debug, and iterate on UI implementations to enhance quality and usability.

• Produce documentation that communicates UI changes, constraints, and recommended practices.

• Assist in adapting a large, established simulation game for new platforms.

• Work closely with design, engineering, art, and production teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of professional UI/UX experience in game development, with a strong emphasis on technical implementation.

• Hands-on experience with Scaleform, including layout design, data binding, animation, and debugging.

• Experience in supporting ports or platform transitions for UI-centric games.

• Strong knowledge of controller-first user experience, focus management, and cross-platform interface design.

• Experience in creating UI that adapts across multiple resolutions and aspect ratios.

• Strong technical problem-solving abilities and capacity to work independently.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with engineers, designers, artists, and QA teams.

• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada and reside within the country.

• Plus: Experience in refactoring legacy UI while maintaining an established player experience.

• Plus: Background in UI animation, motion, or visual refinement.

• Plus: Interest in accessibility, usability, and player comfort.

• Plus: Experience navigating technical constraints to deliver elegant UI solutions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.

• Flexible work arrangements.