5TH Cell is about bringing together professional, talented game developers and artists to create award winning products. Our mantra is ‘Advancing Entertainment’ and we truly strive to both innovate, and creatively push the envelope with all our titles. Our team believes in the products we develop, and together with top partners, we are building a track record of successful original IP including Scribblenauts, Drawn to Life and Lock's Quest.
We are located in Bellevue, Washington, one of the top rated places to live and work in the USA. Just a 20 minute drive into downtown Seattle, or 45 minutes away from an outdoor adventure, Bellevue is a great location for fun, family and to start a promising career.
Most people come to work at 5TH Cell because they share our vision; to create unique, AAA games. Our development method is vision driven, our Creative Director shapes a concept until satisfied, and then the concept is passed to our talented team of designers, programmers and artists to execute on it. We’re extremely iterative in our development, refining until the core idea is fun and balanced.
The work environment is casual, filled with hard working professionals. We’re a friendly company, and believe that leaders shape the company through action, positive attitude and providing a clear direction for growth. We strive to be a company that employees see having a viable long term career with, not just a temporary job.
If this sounds interesting to you, send us your resume or link to a portfolio.
The ideal candidate for this position is an artist with design sensibility who is passionate about planning and developing unique, minimalistic and cutting edge menus and user interfaces across platforms and game styles.
1) Responsible for designing the menu layout for a AAA cross platform console game with social elements. 2) Responsible for ensuring all networking functionality and User Interface for our games is publisher and platform holder compliant. 3) Designer of the entire User Interface, especially when it comes to any part of the game that touches network features. Potential responsibility for implementing menu screens using proprietary tools. 4) Responsible for quality control of the overall user experience. 5) Responsible for creation of art assets for the User Interface.
The following qualifications are ideal::
1) A passion for UI design and “social design” in addition to gameplay design. Knowledge about the core design principles that made MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube explosively popular. 2) A strong background in user interface and social design, preferably from experience with successful shipped products. 3) Experience working under the constraints of publisher/platform holder compliance. (Microsoft and Nintendo) 4) Strong art skills and ability to design and develop professional grade GUI assets. 5) Must possess some technical savvy in using our internal tools as relates to GUI. 6) 3+ Years of Experience in Games or Social Media.
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