Amber is looking for a UI Art Integrator & Technical Animator to bring visual assets to life within the Unity engine. You will focus on integration, motion, and interaction design for a leading mobile social casino game, ensuring the game feels polished and responsive.
What You'll Do
- Integrate UI in Unity, delivering robust and responsive layouts across multiple resolutions and aspect ratios.
- Animate UI elements and 2D characters using Unity’s animation tools.
- Create game‑ready VFX with Unity’s particle system.
- Optimize asset performance for mobile devices, focusing on atlases, compression, batching, and texture budgets.
- Implement interaction states and motion language for liveops features like pop‑ups, rewards, and win celebrations.
- Champion the product's "feel," review work, and iterate until transitions are smooth and interactions are satisfying.
- Prepare and integrate delivered assets, upholding naming conventions and folder discipline.
- Collaborate across disciplines with artists, designers, engineers, producers, and QA.
- Contribute to asset management, troubleshoot layout or animation issues, and help keep builds shippable.
What We're Looking For
- Mastery of Unity, including a strong understanding of its UI, particle, animation, and animation controller systems.
- Production‑grade experience with 2D & UI animation in Unity, demonstrating mastery of timing, spacing, and micro‑interactions.
- Experience creating particles for UI & 2D effects, including practical optimization for mobile devices.
- Asset integration discipline, covering sprite slicing, atlases, import settings, font setup, and organized prefab hierarchies.
- Experience with live game pipelines, featuring fast iteration, clear communication, and reliable delivery.
- Fluency in English, with excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Strong proactive communicator, able to share progress, flag issues, and ask for help.
- An ownership mindset, taking responsibility to ensure work is tested, stable, and delivered on time.
- A portfolio or reel demonstrating UI motion, 2D animations, and in‑engine polish on mobile apps or games.
Nice to Have
- 2D character animation experience, including bone‑based workflows and Timeline.
- Prior game development experience, particularly in mobile games or similar apps.
- Casino app experience or contributions to casino-related art.
- Liveops experience, especially within cadenced, fast release cycles.
- Exposure to asset bundles.
- Familiarity with Jira.
Technical Stack
- Unity
- Unity UI
- Unity Particle System
- Unity Animation Tools
- Timeline
Team & Environment
You will collaborate closely across disciplines with artists, designers, engineers, producers, and QA. The team works together towards common goals, valuing each member's contributions to our mission of continuous improvement and innovation.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive project-based compensation.
- Opportunity to work on exciting and diverse projects.
Work Mode
This is a remote position.
Amber is an equal opportunity employer.
