Game UI/UX Designer - Game Porting (3 months)

Company Description

Viridian Software provides specialized console porting expertise to game developers and publishers around the world. The company focuses on console programming to bring games built in major, niche, and custom engines to PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch platforms. Viridian collaborates closely with partners to ensure that gameplay, performance, and user experience translate effectively across console ecosystems. Team members work with a variety of genres and technologies, contributing to high-quality console releases for diverse audiences.

Role Description

This full-time remote role is for a Game UI/UX Designer focused on game porting over a 3-month engagement. The designer will adapt and optimize existing game interfaces for console platforms, ensuring layouts, navigation, and controls feel intuitive and consistent with platform guidelines. Day-to-day tasks include analyzing current UI/UX flows, creating wireframes and mockups, iterating on interaction patterns, and collaborating with engineers to implement and refine designs. The role also involves usability reviews, identifying accessibility improvements, and aligning visual elements with performance and input constraints of each console. The designer will work closely with cross-functional teams to maintain design quality while meeting project timelines and technical requirements.

Application Requirement

• Please submit a link to your portfolio

Location

• Remote (must overlap with GMT timezone)

Salary

• Depending on location and experience

Required Qualifications

• Game Design, UX Design, or similar degree

Responsibilies

• Work with the UX/UI lead to rework a game's UX/UI for consoles and work on new UI elements from scratch
• Create wireframes that follow existing design languages & translate static visual mockups into high-fidelity wireframes
• Take feedback & quickly adapt prototypes
• Implement UX/UI within game-specific pipelines

Required Skills

• Read, write and speak proficiently in English.
• Familiar with UX principles (clarity, efficiency, cohesion, user-centered design, accessibility)
• Familiar with UX for games
• Proficient in Figma
• Familiar with Unity and Unreal Engine
• Good organisation skills, able to follow and upkeep shared UX documentation
• Basic photoshop knowledge for UI asset creation
• Self-motivated, comfortable working in a remote-first environment
• Good attention to detail
• Comfort working in an iterative, deadline-driven setting
• Ability to collaborate effectively with programmers, artists, and producers, and to communicate design decisions

Nice to have

• Previous UI/UX experience in games
• Familiar with the differences between designing for keyboard/mouse and designing for gamepads
• Familiar with setting up UI screens & elements in Unity and Unreal engine