Technical Artist jobs at Moonactive in Ukraine, Kyiv

As part of our creative team, you’ll work closely with talented artists and designers, have the freedom to experiment with new visual ideas.

Required time zone CET +/- 3 hours

• Create high-quality illustrations and UI assets for new game features and events
• Develop visual concepts and ideas that support the product vision and enhance the player experience
• Ensure visual consistency within the existing art style of Coin Master
• Collaborate with game designers, developers, and other artists to deliver polished, engaging content
• Explore and apply AI tools to optimize and inspire creative workflows
• Take initiative in improving the overall visual quality of the product

• 5+ years of experience in a game industry
• Academic background in Arts or equivalent
• Strong skills in illustration and UI, with proficiency in Adobe Photoshop or similar tools
• Solid understanding of composition, color, form, and visual storytelling
• A strong portfolio demonstrating creativity and versatility
• Motivation, curiosity, and passion for mobile games
• Strong conceptual vision beyond illustration, understanding how UI and visual elements integrate within a feature. Complex vision of features — not only illustration but the overall concept and interaction of elements.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional team
• Fluency in English

• A global data-driven company, with a unique product and strong R&D center;
• Exceptional innovative and dynamic work environment;
• Promote transparency & open employee communication;
• Tremendous growth & career advancement opportunities;
• Encourage, support, and empower learning exploration and career development opportunities;
• Directly impact and build personalized product experiences for our players.

• Create a playful, intuitive cohesive look & feel, and overall mobile game user experience.
• Conceptualize, present and execute your ideas from A to Z.
• Work collaboratively with other designers and cross-functionally with UX, engineering, and product management on the design and implementation of new game features and optimize UI assets for performance and compatibility across multiple devices.
• Create and own the implementation of fun, engaging in-game events and other game content.
• Iterate and refine UI designs based on feedback from stakeholders and playtesting to continuously improve the player experience.
• Ensure consistency and coherence in visual style, color schemes, and typography across different game screens and platforms.
• Stay up-to-date with current design trends and best practices in mobile gaming UI/UX design and practice.

• At least 3 years of experience in game UI and understanding of game UI principles.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, quick decision making within tight schedules.
• Strong design, drawing, Color, composition, and conceptual ideation abilities, Understanding of typography and a keen eye for details.
• Excellent knowledge of Photoshop, illustrator, blender or other 3d tool (bonus)
• Quick sketching methods and the ability to create accurate wire frames.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Knowledge of mobile gaming platforms, screen resolutions, and device capabilities.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate design decisions
• Passion for games

*** PLEASE ATTACH A LINK TO AN ONLINE PORTFOLIO

(We will only contact resumes with portfolio links)

• A global data-driven company, with a unique product and strong R&D center.
• Exceptional, innovative and dynamic work environment.
• Promote transparency and open employee communication.
• Tremendous growth and career advancement opportunities.
• Encourage, support, and empower learning exploration and career development opportunities.
• Directly impact and build personalized product experiences for our players.

We’re looking for a highly experienced, versatile and passionate Technical Artist. You will be collaborating with Unity developers and Art team, integrating creative assets into the game, creating various game content with different mechanics and styles. As a Technical Artist, you will work closely with our Creative and Product and Development teams to shape Moon Active games.

A Technical Artist, as our company sees it, is a bridge between the Art and Development departments. Technical Artist works with different departments in the company and is in charge of the final look of the game. As a Technical Artist, you’ll be integrating all the graphic assets of the game in Unity, creating animations, VFX, and tools to improve our pipeline.

• Integrate graphic assets into Unity while ensuring visual consistency and performance.
• Create precise 2D design and animations in Unity according to existing mock-ups;
• Develop and maintain tools, pipelines, and workflows that streamline production.
• Working as part of a Kyiv-based agile cross-functional team that also includes Unity Developers, QA engineers.

• Production experience in Unity;
• Strong skills in Photoshop;
• Understanding of content creation/management pipelines for game production;
• Experience working with both artists and engineers and understanding the gap between both disciplines;
• Ability to analyze tech design performance-wise and improve art workflows;
• Good spoken and written English is a MUST;

Preferred:

• Experience creating and working with shaders;
• Understanding of rendering pipeline (materials, draw-calls, batching, texture atlas);
• Previous experience working in gaming companies.
• Portfolio with tools/vfx/animations.

• A global data-driven company, with a unique product and strong R&D center;
• Exceptional innovative and dynamic work environment;
• Promote transparency & open employee communication;
• Tremendous growth & career advancement opportunities;
• Encourage, support, and empower learning exploration and career development opportunities;
• Directly impact and build personalized product experiences for our players.

We offer:

• Generous compensation with regular performance reviews;
• Paid vacation and sick leaves;
• Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family member free of charge;
• Sports expenses reimbursement;
• Comfortable office in BC Gulliver;
• Daily lunches in the office and fully stocked kitchen with the greatest coffee;
• Newest technical equipment (macOS);
• Training & Development / Tuition reimbursement; online courses of your choice;
• Parental leave;
• Employee Referral Program with great bonuses;
• Regular team buildings and Company Happy Hours;
• Relocation bonus for nonlocal candidates;

• Create high-quality 2D/3D game assets following the full pipeline from idea generation to production, and delivery, for features from the game.
• Make art assets ranging from character designs, backgrounds, props, game board objects, reward containers, etc.
• Collaborate with the game art team to deliver in-game events, promotions, core game features, and any needed gameplay improvements.
• Receive feedback and requests from art leads, team members, and other stakeholders, and implement necessary adjustments to the art assets produced.
• Research about the market trends, study competition and other games in the genre, and propose ideas which are fresh, and could be highly-benchmarked and fun for the players to experience.
• Have good judgment on balancing between the needs of the features, the time available, and the quality bar we as an art team can achieve. Therefore making smarter decisions to provide maximum impact with emphasis on key deliverables first.
• Work efficiently with a geographically distributed talented art team, by demonstrating autonomy, shared passion for high quality of art, smooth communication and disciplined practices of file management and organizing.

• Minimum 3 years relevant experience in working for games (preferably casual mobile games).
• Strong skills of drawing and painting in Photoshop. Any 3D skills are a bonus.
• Excellent sense of design, color theory, composition, and game art aesthetics.
• Ability to interpret, follow, and evolve the game’s visual style.
• Culture fit to a team with shared passion for making great games and motivation for artistic growth in a fun and friendly artistic environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

*** PLEASE ATTACH A LINK TO AN ONLINE PORTFOLIO

(We will only contact resumes with portfolio links)

• A global data-driven company, with a unique product and strong R&D center.
• Exceptional, innovative and dynamic work environment.
• Promote transparency and open employee communication.
• Tremendous growth and career advancement opportunities.
• Encourage, support, and empower learning exploration and career development opportunities.
• Directly impact and build personalized product experiences for our players.