Freelance Senior UI/UX Designer

<p><strong>We are looking for a skilled UI/UX Designer to join our team on a 1 year freelance contract to cover parental leave.</strong></p><p><a href="https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/8ayJL_7QAWo/jobs/5449203/edit/%20https://goodgamestudios.com/company/about/" target="_blank"><strong>Goodgame Studios</strong></a> is a leading free-to-play, online games development company. We operate across web and mobile platforms and cater to over 500 million registered users worldwide. Become a part of our unique success story and join us as a UX/UI Designer! We self publish our games in-house and have all relevant professions under one roof. Our focus is on achieving long-term, sustainable success with our expertise, economic vitality and hiring the best people.</p><p>As UI/UX Designer, you will contribute to the design and development of engaging user interfaces and experiences for our 4X medieval strategy games (web and mobile) as well as support the ideation and creation of prototypes for potential new games within this franchise. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic and creative environment and make a meaningful impact on our players' experiences.<br/></p><p></p><h4><strong>Your Mission</strong></h4><ul> <li>Translate feature requirements into user flows, wireframes, and rapid prototypes</li> <li>Design visually appealing and user-friendly layouts, assets, and interactions, staying informed of the latest trends in free-to-play (F2P) games</li> <li>Ideate and design innovative UIs and UX for game prototypes and potential new games within the franchise</li> <li>Effectively communicate ideas and concepts to product and development teams, ensuring seamless implementation of designs</li> <li>Collaborate with other designers and artists to maintain a unified game style and cohesive assets for specific features</li> </ul><ul> </ul><p><strong><br/></strong></p><h4> <strong>Your Backstory</strong><strong></strong> </h4><ul> <li>Professional experience in creating digital products in a fast paced environment</li> <li>Completed studies in the field of graphic design, UI/UX, game design, interaction design or similar</li> <li>A strong portfolio demonstrating your skillset</li> <li>Solid understanding of user experience, visual design, and interaction design fundamentals</li> <li>Proficiency in Adobe CC suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe XD) and Figma</li> <li>Strong written and spoken English</li> </ul><p><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p><ul> <li>Experience in Adobe Animate</li> <li>Experience in product and user research<strong><br/></strong> </li> </ul><p><strong><br/></strong></p><h4><strong>Sounds great? More reasons to take this mission</strong></h4><ul> <li>Full flexibility: Work remotely or come and work from our modern office in Hamburg (Ottensen)</li> <li><p>Flexible working hours and a good work-life balance</p></li> <li><p>Join a supportive team in a pragmatic, yet challenging environment, flat hierarchies and state of the art technologies</p></li> <li><p>Work with multidisciplinary and experienced colleagues from the entire product lifecycle in a culture of continuous development and learning opportunities</p></li> </ul>