Position: Graphic Designer
Company: PlayWorks
Category: Artist
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

Play.Works is looking for a highly creative, experienced, talented, and passionate graphic designer to join us in creating beautiful marketing, promotions and user interface designs for our casual games and video channels distributed on millions of Smart TV and connected TV devices worldwide.

Responsibilities:
In support of Play.Works game and video products: Design promotions, banners, logos, skins, imagery for video animation, prototypes, user interfaces,  slides and mockups, apps, and websites. Graphic Designer shall at times work from robust source material with rigid guidelines, at times with general direction and reverence/stock images, or in some situations from a blank canvas. 
- Develop different, high quality design concepts from a brief
- Refine a design through several rounds of revisions, incorporating feedback from the manager/project owner, until the desired outcome is achieved.
- Translate a design to multiple aspect ratios and as many different sizes
- Deliver final assets in the correct format according to specifications.
- Ability to work as part of a team in Ukraine, Israel, and the USA with collaboration via email, Slack, Jira, and live video calls that may occur working Mondays-Fridays 7am-1pm ET time zone (Desired)

Skills: 
- Strong creative, design, color, composition, typography, and conceptual ideation
- Experience designing for web and mobile and digital platforms
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
- Strong use of research and reference material that supports idea generation and problem solving
- Desire to explore and work in many different looks and styles
- Positive attitude and ability to receive and incorporate art direction and objective feedback
- Attention to detail

Requirements: 
- Degree in art/design
- 3+ years of professional experience graphic design for digital platforms
- 5+ years Photoshop and Illustrator experience
- Excellent English speaking and writing skills.

Valuable Skills: 
- Knowledge of Jira.
- Design for television, motion graphics, and animation
- Game design experience and interest in gaming
- Illustration
- Premiere and After Effects
- Other experience, interests, passions: creating video, film, animation, a musical instrument, reading, singing, sports?
- Interest in watching TV, streaming, movies, live tv?

Submission / Portfolio Instructions: 
- Cover letter is optional
- Portfolio and / or reel demonstrating relevant artistic skills required
- All artwork submissions should be online (e.g. game, website, or online album).
- An art test will be required for finalists based on portfolio evaluation.

Working conditions: 
- Office in the city center of Kyiv;
- Medical insurance, social package, courses, holidays, sick days;
- possibility to work remotely

If you are interested and feel you qualify for the position — please send us your CV in English, and state the desired compensation level.