Lead UI Artist, Warner Bros Discovery
Entertainment company
Open for applications
Entertainment company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- Able to demonstrate an excellent knowledge and application of UX, Accessibility & player-focused design principles – through work in complex Game projects, ideally with AAA targets
- Demonstrable professional graphic design skills – particularly layout, typography, and colour theory application
- Excellent knowledge of Figma and Adobe software for 2D Design
- Appreciation of current interaction and design trends in Games, particularly across PC & Console titles
- Experience with Unreal Engine and node-based visual scripting is highly desirable
- Knowledge of Unreal materials/shaders for UI texture optimisation and animation is beneficial
- Demonstrate motion graphic skills is a bonus, i.e. Adobe After Effects
- Knowledge of industry standard Game Development 3D software is helpful
What the job involves
- Work with the Art director to establish UI art direction, brand and style guides – maintaining a consistent style throughout the project
- Work with Directors and Leads to determine requirements and development of all UI features, communicating status of deliverables proactively
- Collaborate and liaise with Artists, Designers, and Programmers in the implementation of UI features – iterating on Design & User feedback to polish and improve features
- Manage documentation and flow diagrams for UI/UX features
- Delegate and maintain an equitable workload across the UI Art team, communicating with Project Leadership and stakeholders on deliverables
- Create opportunities for the UI Artists to expand their skillset and knowledge, understanding their career vectors and developing growth pathways for them
- Explore and provide solutions when the UI visual direction conflicts with the needs of the game design or technical limitations
- Review workflow and tools in the UI production pipeline, to proactively identify bottlenecks or areas for improvement to developer efficiency
- Collaborate and supervise outsource UI Art teams, to ensure delivery of work to specification
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Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
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Company
Company values
- Act as One Team: Trust each other, succeed together, and growth together
- Create What's Next: Be curious, innovate, and focus on the future
- Empower Storytelling: Put creators, consumers and partners at the center, and share extraordinary stories
- Champion Inclusion: Empower others, have courage, and pursue equity
- Dream It & Own It: Advocate the mission, ove with speed, and drive results
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
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Founders
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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