Senior UI Motion & VFX Artist (Mobile F2P Games)

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
Design and User Experience
UserWise

UserWise

UserWise is a leading liveops platform that helps game studios extend the life of their games by delivering fresh content to players seamlessly. With a focus on S Tier Game Management Services, UserWise offers flexibility in building offers, managing s...

Internet Software & Services
1-10
Founded 2020

Description

  • Create polished UI animations, transitions, and interaction feedback for gameplay, menus, events, offers, and reward flows.
  • Design reward and celebration visual effects such as bursts, glows, sparkles, light sweeps, multipliers, prize reveals, and win moments.
  • Bring static UI screens to life with strong timing, pacing, anticipation, impact, and readability.
  • Partner with UI/UX Designers to improve hierarchy, clarity, and emotional impact through motion.
  • Collaborate with Game Designers and Product to reinforce player motivations such as rewards, progression, streaks, bonuses, and achievement.
  • Work with Unity Engineers to implement, tune, and optimize UI animation and effects in-game.
  • Help create reusable motion patterns and feedback systems that can scale across features.
  • Maintain high visual quality while respecting mobile performance, memory, and production constraints.

Requirements

  • Senior-level experience creating high-quality UI motion, animation, and/or VFX for mobile F2P games, typically with 5+ years of relevant game industry experience.
  • A strong portfolio showing polished reward feedback, celebration moments, transitions, and animated UI systems.
  • Strong understanding of animation principles, including timing, easing, anticipation, follow-through, impact, staging, and rhythm.
  • Ability to create motion that improves clarity and emotional payoff, not just visual decoration.
  • Experience working with game engines, ideally Unity.
  • Strong understanding of premium mobile game polish, F2P reward presentation, and player motivation.
  • Comfort collaborating with UI/UX Designers, Artists, Game Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers.
  • Ability to iterate quickly based on feedback and production needs.
  • Understanding of mobile performance considerations for animation, particles, and UI effects.
  • Strong Unity implementation skills, including Animator, Timeline, particle systems, prefabs, UI animation, and optimization, preferred.
  • Experience with After Effects, Spine, Rive, Lottie, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or similar tools, preferred.
  • Experience creating particle effects, shaders, animated materials, or light/glow treatments, preferred.
  • Experience supporting LiveOps features, events, offers, bundles, reward screens, and monetization flows, preferred.
  • Experience creating motion style guides, reusable animation libraries, or UI feedback systems, preferred.
  • Based in Serbia, Romania, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, or Poland, preferred.

Benefits

  • Market-competitive, tax-free USD salary.
  • Paid time off.
  • Performance bonus.
  • Annual performance reviews.
  • 100% remote, flexible work arrangement.
  • Work with a veteran-led team in a lean, high-ownership environment.
  • High visibility and direct impact on a flagship project.
  • Opportunity to help bring a globally recognized IP to life.

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