Artist | Catalog Games (Pet Rescue Saga)

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Job Description

We're looking for a talented Game Artist (Unity) to join the Pet Rescue Saga team. As we rebuild and modernise one of King's most iconic games in Unity, you'll play a key role in creating beautiful, engaging player experiences while ensuring assets are implemented efficiently and perform seamlessly in-game.

This is a multidisciplinary role that combines artistic excellence with a strong understanding of Unity workflows. You'll work closely with Product, Design, Engineering and UX to bring new gameplay features, events and player experiences to life.

What You'll Do

• Create high-quality 2D game assets, UI elements and visual effects that align with Pet Rescue Saga's art direction.

• Implement and integrate art assets directly into Unity.

• Build and maintain prefabs, animations, particle effects and UI layouts within Unity.

• Collaborate with engineers to optimize assets for memory, performance and scalability.

• Work closely with Game Designers to prototype and iterate quickly on new gameplay ideas.

• Partner with UX designers to ensure interfaces are intuitive, polished and delightful.

• Help establish efficient art production pipelines and Unity workflows for the Reforge team.

• Maintain consistency across features while contributing fresh ideas to modernise the visual experience.

• Support Live Operations by creating and implementing content for seasonal events, offers and experiments when required.

• Participate in creative reviews and continuously improve the visual quality of the game.

What We're Looking For

Required

• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellent game art and UI work.

• Professional experience working in Unity.

• Experience integrating assets directly into Unity projects.

• Strong understanding of Unity UI, prefabs, animation systems and asset management.

• Experience creating assets for mobile games.

• Good understanding of 3D workflows and how 3D assets can enhance a 2D game production pipeline.

• Proficiency with Blender or equivalent 3D software.

• Experience with particle systems, shaders and visual effects within Unity.

• Proficiency with Spine, After Effects, or similar animation tools.

• Excellent understanding of composition, colour, readability and player feedback.

• Ability to balance creativity with technical constraints.

• Comfortable collaborating within cross-functional teams.

• Strong communication skills and ability to iterate quickly based on feedback.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on live mobile games.

• Knowledge of optimisation techniques for mobile devices.

• Experience creating stylised 3D models, environments or props.

• Understanding of accessibility and UX best practices.

• Experience working with Figma.

• Experience using AI-assisted art creation tools within production pipelines.

• Experience developing hybrid 2D/3D visual pipelines for mobile games.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.