Hours: Full time
Salary: Excellent (dependent on experience)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Remote / Central London
About Antstream Arcade
Antstream Arcade is the largest collection of officially licensed retro/classic games in the world. Our latest Xbox release has been recognised as the best retro gaming platform on gaming consoles. Players from all over the world can compete together in unique challenges, tournaments, and full gameplay. As a true entertainment brand, Antstream is bringing iconic gameplay to Xbox Series S/X, PC/Mac, Android, consoles, fire OS, and more. Players can stream games from anywhere and join the action. Partnerships with Disney, Taito, WarnerMedia, Bandai Namco, Cave, Interplay, SNK, Data East, and more bring our extensive collection to over 3000 fully licensed games.
We are looking for people who have a passion for gaming and want to create the next big gaming platform using bleeding-edge technology and world-class design. You are self-motivated, keen to be a team player and contribute your ideas and solutions that will help Antreams achieve its goal as the number one destination for retro gaming.
Responsibilities
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Develop design concepts and solutions from brief to completion.
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Lead and assist in the ideation and presentation of designs.
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Comfortable wearing different hats and working across product and marking.
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Assist in developing a new world-class platform interface and bleeding-edge new gameplay features.
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Develop new branding to help promote new features and aspects of the platform.
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Create new assets for existing pipelines, for example: Backgrounds, banners, avatars, and 2D rewards.
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Design wireframes and present them to peers and executive team members.
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Support the Executive producer with the product vision.
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Work with a multi-discipline team to create new features and content.
Requirements - If you have most of the following, then we definitely want to hear from you.
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Must have shipped at least one game contributing as UX designer or UI artist.
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Must have experience working with or in a game design team.
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Must be competent and experienced with Photoshop, Illustrator, or Figma. Other UI and UX tools are beneficial.
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Must be comfortable documenting designs for others to execute.
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A portfolio demonstrating good design and graphical art skills (you will be asked to provide a copy of this when applying)
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The ability to communicate through sketches and low-fidelity prototypes
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Activey play games and have a keen interest in the games industry
Desirable - but not essential
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Skills in Pixel art, illustration, image retouching
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A Figma Master
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Image and video concepting
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Experience using data and player feedback to improve engagement & retention
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Experience Designing websites using tools like WIX
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Project management experience
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Premiere Pro and After Effects experience
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A basic understanding of CSS
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Exposure to AI-generating art software
If this job sounds ideal, please send a CV and a cover letter to jobs@antstream.com, letting us why you’re the perfect person for this job.