Epic Games

Montreal, Quebec

Senior Technical UI Designer

ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 3 months ago
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Epic Games

Epic Games specializes in creating engaging video games and advanced game development technology, including the widely used Unreal Engine, while fostering a collaborative and innovative environment for both its employees and the global gaming community.

SAAS Mobile Publishing Entertainment & Recreation
HQ
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Team size
5K-10K
Founded
1991

Quick Summary

Role Overview

Epic Games is seeking a Lead Technical UI Designer to manage a team implementing UI systems for Rocket League in Unreal Engine. This hands-on leadership role involves building rapid prototypes and leveling up workflows while collaborating across design and engineering departments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of Technical UI designers to implement systems for Rocket League
  • Establish a culture of mentorship and excellence within the design craft
  • Define best practices and procedures for Technical UI Design workflows
  • Break down features into necessary widgets materials and input navigation
  • Implement blueprint logic for presentation and assist artists with special behaviors
  • Debug blueprint and UMG issues using various technical tools and techniques

Requirements Snapshot

  • Experience managing a team of two to six people
  • Expertise building UI across mobile web PC and console platforms
  • Proficiency building materials and shaders in Unreal Engine or equivalent
  • Professional experience with game engines and 3D packages like Maya
  • Experience with visual or scripting languages such as Blueprints or Lua

Expected Impact

The Lead Technical UI Designer will drive the technical implementation of UI features for millions of global players ensuring consistency and high-quality user experiences. By establishing best practices and mentoring the team this role will directly contribute to the ongoing innovation and success of Rocket League.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

UX DESIGN

What We Do

We design customer and user-focused experiences that are fresh and innovative, while problem solving by anticipating user behavior and hurdles. We approach the most complex of problems and address them with simple, intuitive, and useful solutions.

What You'll Do

As an experienced Senior Technical UI Designer, you will work closely with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Programmers to implement UI systems and features. Much of our work starts undefined, and you will help to shape the direction. You will raise the bar for the discipline through the standards you set, the workflows you improve, and the people you mentor. Above all, you advocate for the player experience.

In this role, you will

  • Break a feature or wireframe down into clear, scoped tasks, surfacing unknowns and dependencies early
  • Prototype and prove out new UI techniques, pushing the limits of UMG and shaping the patterns the team adopts
  • Design robust, reusable component systems that stay flexible as designs change
  • Implement data-driven UI through ViewModels and view bindings, working closely with UI Programming
  • Build for every player, accounting for screen sizes and safe areas, localization, and accessibility
  • Design within performance and memory budgets, profiling the cost of UMG, Slate, C++, and texture memory
  • Collaborate closely with UX, UI Art, and Programming, improving workflows, pipelines, and documentation, and giving feedback as readily as you accept it

What we're looking for

  • You are a project expert in technical UI implementation, having previously built UI in game engines that has shipped to a large audience across PC, console, and mobile on a regular basis. Comparable experience with transferable skills is welcome
  • You have hands-on Unreal and UMG experience, or strong experience in another game engine, custom or commercial, and a real appetite to go deep in Unreal
  • You are at your best in ambiguity, quickly picking up new and sparsely documented toolsets and technologies like AI, finding a path where there is no precedent, and asking the questions no one else has thought to ask
  • You have proven experience with data-driven UI and the separation of data from presentation, through MVVM and ViewModels or an equivalent, and have strong component-architecture instincts, designing for flexibility by nature
  • You have a strong visual eye and working knowledge of UX and UI, layout, composition, hierarchy, and interaction patterns, reflexively anticipating states, edge cases, overflow, localization, dynamic content, and responsive scaling
  • You have a strong feel for controller-first navigation and for building UI that works across input methods and platforms
  • You design with performance and runtime cost in mind, comfortable profiling and working to a budget
  • You have real craft in UI materials and motion, or the adjacent skill and appetite to grow it quickly.
  • You translate fluidly across UX, UI Art, Programming, production, and leadership, meeting non-technical teammates where they are, and documenting work so a distributed team can build on it
  • You have solid programming fundamentals, object-oriented design, data structures, and game systems, and you are comfortable with the math UI and motion work depend on, such as transforms, geometry, and interpolation

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games​ ​is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

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