Unity Developer, Game developer

Review Criteria:

Mandatory:

• Strong senior motion graphics designer profile
• Must have 3 + years of professional experience in motion design with direct exposure to app-based and web-based products.
• Must have end-to-end ownership of product motion design, including UI animations, micro-interactions, and product showreels that have shipped in live products.
• Must have a strong portfolio showcasing product-focused motion design, UI/UX animations, and micro-interactions (not marketing-only work).
• Must have demonstrated experience working on digital products (mobile apps / web platforms / SaaS / dashboards).
• Must have experience collaborating with product designers and developers and be able to clearly articulate motion decisions and UX rationale.
• Must have strong expertise in Figma, After Effects, Protopie, Lottie, and related prototyping tools.

Preferred:

• Experience working in SaaS, enterprise platforms, or complex dashboards.

Role & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a highly qualified Senior Motion Graphics Designer to join our UX design team. We need someone who can produce high-octane product showreels for our social channels and website, while also collaborating with our UI/UX team to design sophisticated animation and micro-interactions for the apps we build.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Showreels & Marketing: Conceptualize, storyboard, and execute high-quality 2D and 3D motion graphics for product launches, social media ads, and website headers.
• UI/UX Motion: Collaborate with Product Designers to create motion languages for our apps. You will design micro-interactions that enhance the user experience and feel natural.
• Storytelling: Translate marketing scripts and product features into compelling storyboards and style frames before execution.
• Technical Execution: Ensure all animations are smooth and professional
• Audio & Sfx: Handle SFX selection and basic audio mixing
• Innovation: Stay updated on AI tools, new plugins and industry trends to continuously improve our workflow and output.

Ideal Candidate:

• Experience: 3–5 years of professional experience in motion design.
• Portfolio: A strong portfolio is non-negotiable. It must showcase a mix of promotional motion graphics (showreels) and UI/UX motion behaviors.
• Software Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• UI Motion Knowledge: Familiarity with tools or formats like Lottie, Rive and working with UI files from Figma.
• 3D Capability: Proficiency in 3D workflows (Cinema 4D, Blender, or 3D within After Effects) is highly desirable for creating product visualizations.

Perks, Benefits and Work Culture:

• Our projects are fast paced. Everyone is expected to take ownership of the work assigned and are accountable for the same.
• We love to work with people who are proactive, Solution providers and are contributing positively.
• The office has an open culture.
• We encourage leadership development.
• We have worked with the #1 Sports stadium in the world and developed solutions used by NFL, NBA, and Soccer teams.
• We are currently working with clients on the Forbes list USA. One of them is the youngest RE billionaire in the USA.
• Our clients include few fortune companies.
• We have developed solutions featured by Apple and Microsoft.
• We won all the entries sent to design awards including few Indian and International design awards.
• We are working with one of the 50 largest employers of NYC in the health care domain.
• We are working with both emerging and very successful start-ups globally.

• Job Title - Senior Mobile Game Designer - Hybridcasual
• Reports Into - Head of Design
• Location - Hybrid / Bangalore

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with over over 1 Billion downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 
• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
• On site gym - take care of yourself
• Relocation support - available
• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Ninja Warrior
• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays! 
• Kwalee Artificial Intelligence (K.A.I) - win prizes for proposing useful AI initiatives

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As our Senior Game Designer you have a talent to create fun, exciting game experiences for our players. You’ll be designing hybridcasual games, managing and overseeing hybridcasual projects and coaching of the design team 

Your Team Mates

Our team is a diverse group of designers from all around the world; some working in the office, some remote. As a core department to the company, we're given a large degree of freedom and creative responsibility over every game we make.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Planning, managing and overseeing of hybridcasual game projects
• Motivate, inspire and mentor a small team of designers, encouraging a culture of constant learning
• Support your team members on solving complex design, technical and implementation issues
• Evolving and adapting game designs based on play testing, feedback and live metrics.
• Driving long term player engagement by understanding mobile players needs and motivations.

Your Hard Skills

• Track record of working either on successful hybridcasual games or alternatively has worked on both casual and hypercasual games
• Knowledge of mobile free-to-play game monetisation techniques.
• Ability to work creatively in a demanding team environment.
• Experience managing a team
• Strong creative ideas and imagination, able to entertain players with challenges, humour, surprises and fun.

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

We are looking for a highly skilled 3D Character Artist with rigging expertise to join our team. The ideal candidate should be proficient in creating characters from scratch and rigging them for Unity and Unreal Engine. The role requires a keen eye for detail and a passion for bringing characters to life.

Responsibilities:

• Create 3D characters from concept art or references, adhering to project specifications and style
• Design and implement realistic or stylized facial expressions using blend shapes and rigging techniques
• Create efficient and optimized character rigs for animation, including skinning and weight painting
• Collaborate with the art and animation team to ensure consistency of character design and quality across all assets
• Troubleshoot and fix technical issues related to rigging, animation, and integration into game engines
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and techniques, continuously improving skills and workflows

Requirements:

• Proficiency in 3D modeling and texturing using software such as Maya, 3ds Max, or and any major 3D softwares.
• Strong knowledge of character rigging techniques, including skinning, weight painting, and blend shapes
• Experience in creating characters for Unity and Unreal Engine, and knowledge of their respective pipelines and limitations
• Understanding of human anatomy, facial expressions, and body mechanics
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• A portfolio demonstrating high-quality character modeling, rigging, and animation work

If you are passionate about creating engaging and realistic characters for games and have the required skills and experience, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. We offer competitive salary, benefits, and a dynamic work environment.

Job Description:

Must-Have (Unity):

• Strong understanding of Unity3D (Version >= 2019).
• Strong understanding of Unity’s Nested Prefabs.
• Strong understanding of Unity’s Classic InputManager & New InputSystem.
• Strong understanding of Joystick/Controller/Keyboard input mapping using Unity’s Classic InputManager & New InputSystem.
• Strong understanding of UI navigation using Joystick/Controller/Keyboard input.
• Strong understanding of UnityWebRequest and Rest APIs uses in Unity.
• Strong understanding of Save/Load data in JSON notation.
• Strong understanding of debugging Console/Standalone/Mobile applications.
• Good understanding of libraries and plugins like JsonUtility, NewtonSoft, DoTween and TextMeshPro.
• Good understanding of responsive UI implementation in Unity.
• Good understanding of streaming assets in Unity.
• Basic understanding of Unity Editor scripting.
• Basic understanding of Unity’s custom builds pipeline for Console/Standalone/Mobile applications.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD using Jenkins for Unity projects.

Must-Have (Others):

• Good understanding of JSON and XML notations.
• Good understanding of DLL (Dynamic Link Library) creation using Visual Studio.
• Good understanding of project management software like JIRA and YouTrack.
• Good understanding of using GitHub/GitLab platforms.
• Basic understanding of versioning systems like git.
• Basic understanding of Linux and Bash Commands.

Good To Have:

• Basic understanding of Consoles (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo) and Controllers (Wired, Wireless).
• Basic understanding of using Chromium based Browsers/WebViews in Standalone Unity applications.
• Basic understanding of Shaders especially Blur Shader.
• Basic understanding of UPnP, SSDP, and JsonRpc based communication protocols.
• Basic understanding of SCRAM based authentication mechanism.
• Basic understanding of libraries like StreamJsonRpc, StreamRpc, RSSDP, ZFBrowser/Embedded Browser.
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP Protocols and Network Streams in C#.
• Basic understanding of Reflection in C#.

Job Description: 

• Creating detailed inorganic and organic 3D models i.e. characters, props, layouts, machines, natural features and environments. 
• Creating highly detailed textures. 
• Doing rigging, organic and inorganic animations. 
• Ensuring that artwork is optimised for Web browsers. 
• Managing and working in coordination with other team members.
• Working on multiple projects at given time.
• Managing entire game projects from creative and graphic perspective.

Requirements: 

• Proven experience in designing high as well as low poly models.
• Must have an expert knowledge of Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop, After effects. 
• Knowledge of 2D and 3D animations is a huge advantage. 
• Good knowledge of lighting and technical details in Unity is a plus. 
• Must be very creative and should have a keen eye for detail.
• Should be able to work well under pressure and adhere to deadlines without compromising on the quality.