User Interface Designer
Berlin
Nebenjob | 10-05-2012 | PLZ : 10405
About us
goodbeans was founded in Berlin in 2007 and today is Europe’s leading provider of internet and mobile games for families. We develop safe and diverse online environments and apps, within which children have the opportunity to learn in a playful manner. Creativity and self-realisation are as much a priority as the exchange with others.
We are a young and international team made up of strong personalities with entrepreneurial spirit and big ideas. Everyone gives their best every day to develop and market fun games. Do you consider yourself professional, passionate, capable, trustworthy and ambitious? Then you will fit right in here with us at goodbeans! Discover your potential in an environment that suits you!
To complete the goodbeans Team we currently look for a:
User Interface Designer
Your responsibilities
• Create beautiful, innovative and user-friendly user interfaces for mobile devices and websites with Game Designers, Marketing and other Stakeholders
• Create visual concepts and final assets, realization of new interface functions according to ergonomic interaction design standards
• Excellent concept design skills: sketching/wireframing/storyboarding abilities on paper/screen
• Testing the quality of projects and securing a consistent style
• Competitive analysis to evaluate new trends as well as the success and failure of other designs
• Working together closely with Lead Artist, Lead Designer and developers to create high-quality interaction designs
Your profile
• Provide a portfolio with strong examples of User Interface and Graphic Design in web, games and/or mobile – Inclusion of Flows, Wireframes and Sitemaps a bonus
• A strong desire to make great games and fun mobile interactive experiences
• You can create beautiful, functional and innovative User Interfaces for mobile devices
• Passionate about latest trends in interactive experiences across a variety of mediums with a strong desire for innovation
• Two or more years of professional experience in user experience/interaction design for games, social media and/or web
• Excellent knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and related tools
• Quickly prototype and communicate UI plan for other artists and engineers in wireframing and screen flow software such as Visio, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq Mockups or equivalents
• Strong understanding of the technical limitations and constraints in products they’re working in particularly with iOS, Flash and HTML5
• Shown experience in successfully working across multiple products in parallel- Strong self-manager
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Interaction Design, New Media Design, Human Factors/Ergonomics or related field is a bonus
What we offer
• Bring your mobile game ideas to life: Convince us and we’ll provide a development team within weeks
• Work independently and fast in teams of 4-5 people, while profiting from the whole company’s expertise
• No politics, no turf wars, we like to get stuff done
• Profit from our high reach and mobile marketing expertise: Our games are played by large audiences
• Work in Berlin, the best city in the world
• Be part of a truly international company: People come from over 15 different nations and our company language is English
• The company film shows what life and work is like at goodbeans: http://youtu.be/znoNiLM3Ucw
Information
• Location: Berlin, Germany
• Salary: to be negotiated
• Start: as soon as possible
We look forward to receiving your CV, cover letter and a portfolio of your work via e-mail to: jobs@goodbeans.com. Please use “User Interface Designer” in the subject field of the e-mail and tell us the name of the website on which you found our job posting.
