Role overview

Qualifications

Expertise with design tools like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Excellent creative problem-solving skills
Great communicator with strong presentation skills
A solid grasp of visual design and user interface design principles

Responsibilities

Working within the UI/UX team to create a range of shippable UI assets
Building strong collaborative working relationships with various teams
Maintain documentation to track the status of work

Key facts

Remote from: United Kingdom
Full time
Artist
English

Hard skills

Presentation Training Human Interface Guidelines User Experience (UX) Figma (Design Software) Adobe After Effects Empowerment

Other skills

Collaboration
Problem Solving
Communication

About the company

PlayStation Global

Video Games & Interactive Entertainment

Want to take your career to the next level? Search open job vacancies at any of the Sony Interactive sites by visiting playstation.com/careers/ Sony Interactive Entertainment pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. Today, we continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and game development studios around the world as part of PlayStation Studios, we believe that the power of play is borderless. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. For more information about our company, please visit SonyInteractive.com. For more information about PlayStation products, please visit PlayStation.com.

Company details

Company typeXLarge

IndustryVideo Games & Interactive Entertainment

Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

We are Media Molecule, a Guildford based game developer proudly part of the PlayStation Studios group. We have a history of creating Award winning games such as LittleBigPlanet, Tearaway and Dreams.

Role Overview:

This is a 6-month contingent engagement through our staffing partner, Yoh Services, offering the opportunity to contribute to an exciting PlayStation Studios project. We welcome applications from candidates seeking fully remote working within the UK or a hybrid arrangement.

As a UI Artist, you will be working with an established UI/UX team to create a range of 2D UI assets, including iconography, representations of the game world, and in-world branding to support consistent and lively presentation. The work will contribute to the UI’s existing graphic design-led visual direction and game branding.

What you’ll be doing:

Working within the UI/UX team whilst continuously collaborating with the brand and art teams to concept and create a range of shippable UI assets, particularly icon design, in-world branding, and representations of the game world within the UI.
Building strong, collaborative working relationships with the UI/UX, art, design, and engineering teams to ensure consistency, authenticity, and brand harmony across the UI.
Maintain documentation to track the status of work both in and outside of the game.

What we’re looking for:

Expertise with design tools like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and other general design tools.
Excellent creative problem-solving skills by creating simple solutions to complex problems.
Great communicator, with strong presentation skills and the ability to clearly convey your ideas to non-art stakeholders.
A solid grasp of visual design and user interface design principles.
Ability to work autonomously.

Advantageous:

Experience creating UI/UX on a shipped title.
Prior experience working with UI design systems in Figma.
Have worked with After Effects and have experience with motion graphics.

Benefits:

25 days holiday and 8 bank holidays per year
Flexitime working (where approved)
Free car parking facilities
On Site Gym
Subsidised Café
On site bar
Access to cycle garage and showers

Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.

Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.