UI designer

Are you a passionate and professional designer with flair for UI/UX and do you know your way around Unity?

Would you like to help us build fun and engaging social gaming experiences to millions of kids around the world?

Then we would love to hear from you and get you on board as our new UI designer.

About The Job

As a UI designer on one of MovieStarPlanet’s cross-disciplinary game teams your responsibility is to help deliver great User Experiences through clear and intuitive UI.

We are building our games on top of a common platform and all the games share a number of features that are graphically adjusted to fit each game’s look and feel. They are created through our own UI system based on Unity.

So you have to be good at keeping things tidy and follow the guidelines of those shared features, but also - in time - provide feedback to the developers on where and how to improve the shared UI system.

You will be working on an already existing game title, so it’s important that you can tune in on and follow the visual style of a product. Your work will mainly consist of developing game specific features so they match the already established style and make the cross-game features fit the style of the game.

We are developing our games for multiple platforms, so you should be able to think three different layouts (mobile devices, tablets and computer screens) into your designs.

Development at MovieStarPlanet is highly user-centric. We work in short iterative cycles of 2-4 weeks between each release. This enables us to respond quickly and effectively to learnings gained from direct user feedback from our large fan base. So you should be able to scope your work in a way where you can deliver finished material by the end of each release cycle.

In order to be successful you must work closely together with all the brilliant people on the team and across the company towards achieving the company vision of ‘Connecting kids in the best social network of games’: You will work closely together with the team’s creative lead translating his vision into clear and intuitive UI. You will collaborate with our own game team on a daily basis, but also regularly aligning and collaborating with the UI/UX and game designers across the company. You will be reporting to the team’s Product Manager.

About you

You are first and foremost a pragmatic, goal-oriented kind of person, that always asks “how might we achieve this?” rather than saying “this is impossible!”

You love your trade and want to excite the end users through your work.

You’re probably more of a generalist than a UI game artist.

You understand and navigate well in complex systems.

You like to work cross-disciplinary and can communicate with people of different professions than your own.

You are structured and have a realistic sense of your own limitations and capacity, so you can provide the Product Manager and the Creative Lead with the right level of information regarding suggested solutions and estimates for them to be able to make the right product calls.

Experience and skill set

• Unity experience
• 3-5 years of experience
• Experience in developing UI/UX for mobile platforms
• Experience in prototyping software (we mainly use Figma and proto.io).
• Native in the Adobe Creative Suite, mainly Illustrator and photoshop
• Ability to adapt and work within an existing style and framework
• Fluent in English (our work language)

Bonus skills

• Game experience is a plus, but not a must.
• Knowledge of Jira & Confluence software is an advantage.
• Experience with Scrum is an advantage
• An interest and/or knowledge in F2P gaming, social networks and our target audience (kids 8-13) is an advantage.

About Us

MovieStarPlanet ApS is the company behind the games and social networks MovieStarPlanet and BlockStarPlanet targeted for kids aged 8-13 years. In the virtual worlds, users design their own MovieStar or BlockStar avatar, which is used to play the games and have fun with friends.

Some of the key features include dress-up, chat with friends, create looks, make movies and scrapbooks, design clothes, build worlds and prefabs and play mini-games.

Launched in Denmark in 2009, MovieStarPlanet ApS has experienced explosive growth. Currently, the games are live in 16 countries across 11 European markets as well as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Globally we rank among the most popular virtual worlds for the target group with more than 300 million registered profiles.

MovieStarPlanet ApS employs around 75 staff at the Headquarter based in the attractive surroundings of the new and modern part of Copenhagen called Ørestad, located very close to the city center and the metro line. Corporate language is English.

Why Work With Us?

Touch the lives of millions of kids every day, and be part of a fast-growing company, producing one of the most popular games and social networks in the world for kids.

Your colleagues are highly qualified, creative, and friendly people. We are ambitious and strive to develop and support the world’s most inspiring social network for kids by delivering safe digital entertainment for fun, creativity, and sharing. We believe in learning by doing and taking ownership of tasks and projects, so you will be given a lot of freedom and responsibility from day one!

We have around 20 nationalities working with us, which provides a vibrant atmosphere. We value diversity and believe this contributes to a greater variety of viewpoints, a broader range of individual talents and professional experience.

Our passion for people and the products make us an inspiring, fun, casual and challenging place to work and creates an environment where ideas can flourish.

‘Social’ is both what we do and who we are – so every week there is a social event going on ranging from Friday bars to casual game nights to running clubs. We have a canteen in the building so lunch is served just downstairs and we offer free fruit and healthy snacks daily. For our future foreign colleagues, it could be interesting to know that we offer 5 weeks of vacation for all nationalities, free child 1st sick day and the right to take up to 52 weeks of combined parental leave.

So, if you want to work with passionate colleagues who care for kids and work hard every day to give them the best platform to have fun with their friends then MovieStarPlanet is the right place for you.

How To Apply

Please apply for this position online by clicking the "Apply for this position" button. Your application should contain the following:

• A cover letter – including a short description of your educational background, working experience and why you are motivated to work at MovieStarPlanet
• Include a portfolio of your best work
• Your CV and exam results

Application deadline is as soon as possible. We will be holding interviews at the earliest convenience.