UserWise Services

External game dev teams using AI

Senior UI Motion & VFX Artist - Mobile F2P Games

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Full-timeRemote in Serbia

About the Job

Requirements

Senior-level experience creating high-quality UI motion, animation, and/or visual effects for mobile free-to-play games, typically with 5 or more years of relevant game industry experience.
A portfolio showing polished reward feedback, celebration moments, transitions, and animated UI systems.
Strong understanding of animation principles, including timing, easing, anticipation, follow-through, impact, staging, and rhythm.
Ability to create motion that improves clarity and emotional payoff, not just visual decoration.
Experience working with game engines, ideally Unity.
Strong understanding of premium mobile game polish, free-to-play reward presentation, and player motivation.
Ability to collaborate with UI/UX Designers, Artists, Game Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers.
Ability to iterate quickly based on feedback and production needs.
Understanding of mobile performance considerations for animation, particles, and UI effects.

Responsibilities

Create polished UI animations, transitions, and interaction feedback for mobile gameplay, menus, events, offers, and reward flows.
Design reward and celebration visual effects such as coin bursts, glows, sparkles, light sweeps, multipliers, prize reveals, and win moments.
Bring static UI screens to life with strong timing, pacing, anticipation, impact, and readability.
Partner with UI/UX Designers to improve hierarchy, clarity, and emotional impact through motion.
Partner with Game Designers and Product to reinforce key player motivations such as rewards, progression, streaks, bonuses, and achievement.
Work with Unity Engineers to implement, tune, and optimize UI animation and effects in-game.
Help create reusable motion patterns and feedback systems that can scale across features.
Maintain high visual quality while respecting mobile performance, memory, and production constraints.

Desired Qualifications

Strong Unity implementation skills, including Animator, Timeline, particle systems, prefabs, UI animation, and optimization.
Experience with After Effects, Spine, Rive, Lottie, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or similar tools.
Experience creating particle effects, shaders, animated materials, or light/glow treatments.
Experience supporting LiveOps features, events, offers, bundles, reward screens, and monetization flows.
Experience creating motion style guides, reusable animation libraries, or UI feedback systems.

Senior UI Motion & VFX Artist (Mobile F2P Games)

UserWise Services · Serbia (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-28

Workplace: remote

Department: Art

Description

The Opportunity

UserWise is looking for a Senior UI Motion & VFX Artist to help bring a premium mobile F2P game experience to life.

This role will own the motion, feedback, and visual polish that make the game feel exciting, responsive, and rewarding moment-to-moment. You’ll work closely with UI/UX, art, design, product, and engineering to create polished UI animation, reward feedback, transitions, and visual effects that support clarity, player motivation, and mobile performance.

This is a hands-on role for someone who understands how to make mobile game UI feel premium, satisfying, and alive.

We are prioritizing candidates based in Serbia, Romania, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, or Poland.

What You’ll Do

Create polished UI animations, transitions, and interaction feedback for mobile gameplay, menus, events, offers, and reward flows.
Design reward and celebration VFX such as coin bursts, glows, sparkles, light sweeps, multipliers, prize reveals, and win moments.
Bring static UI screens to life with strong timing, pacing, anticipation, impact, and readability.
Partner with UI/UX Designers to improve hierarchy, clarity, and emotional impact through motion.
Partner with Game Designers and Product to reinforce key player motivations such as rewards, progression, streaks, bonuses, and achievement.
Work with Unity Engineers to implement, tune, and optimize UI animation and effects in-game.
Help create reusable motion patterns and feedback systems that can scale across features.
Maintain high visual quality while respecting mobile performance, memory, and production constraints.

Why This Role Matters

Great mobile game UI is not just functional; it needs to feel rewarding, responsive, and emotionally satisfying. In this role, you’ll help define the motion and feedback language that makes key moments feel premium, clear, and fun for players.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

Senior-level experience creating high-quality UI motion, animation, and/or VFX for mobile F2P games, typically with 5+ years of relevant game industry experience.
Strong portfolio showing polished reward feedback, celebration moments, transitions, and animated UI systems.
Strong understanding of animation principles, including timing, easing, anticipation, follow-through, impact, staging, and rhythm.
Ability to create motion that improves clarity and emotional payoff, not just visual decoration.
Experience working with game engines, ideally Unity.
Strong understanding of premium mobile game polish, F2P reward presentation, and player motivation.
Comfortable collaborating with UI/UX Designers, Artists, Game Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers.
Ability to iterate quickly based on feedback and production needs.
Understanding of mobile performance considerations for animation, particles, and UI effects.

Nice to Have

Strong Unity implementation skills, including Animator, Timeline, particle systems, prefabs, UI animation, and optimization.
Experience with After Effects, Spine, Rive, Lottie, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or similar tools.
Experience creating particle effects, shaders, animated materials, or light/glow treatments.
Experience supporting LiveOps features, events, offers, bundles, reward screens, and monetization flows.
Experience creating motion style guides, reusable animation libraries, or UI feedback systems.

Benefits

Why Join UserWise

Help bring a globally recognized IP to life with real brand reach and growth potential.
Push the quality benchmark for how the game feels moment-to-moment, from everyday interactions to high-value reward moments.
Work with a veteran-led team in a lean, high-ownership environment.
High visibility and direct impact on a flagship project.
100% remote, flexible work with a small, passionate, execution-focused team.

Benefits

Market competitive, tax-free USD salaries
Paid Time Off
Performance Bonus
Annual Performance Reviews

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About the Company

UserWise Services

External game dev teams using AI

UserWise Services builds high-performance external teams for game studios to move fast, scale intelligently, and operate for the long term. They focus on new game development, LiveOps, growth, maintenance, and portfolio-level product execution, embedding teams that act like internal staff. How it works: their teams take ownership and run production and LiveOps using a proprietary AI-powered toolset that accelerates design, content creation, LiveOps execution, and decision-making as part of daily workflows. The company differentiates itself through a distributed, senior-leaning workforce and tools that reduce friction across design, art, engineering, data, and LiveOps, enabling decisions grounded in player impact. Their goal is to help partners grow games to large, sustainable outcomes, already supporting studios managing $100M+ in annual revenue across portfolios, with operations across the US and EU.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Madison, WI
Founded: 2020

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