Senior UI Technical Designer
Summary
Senior UI Technical Designer implements Unreal Engine 5 UI screens, flows, and animations for a live-service game, translating UX designs into polished in-engine experiences while collaborating with artists and engineers.
We are looking for a Senior UI Technical Designer to support an Unreal Engine 5 project. The role bridges UX, art, design, and engineering, helping turn UX flows, prototypes, visual designs, and interaction concepts into polished in-engine UI experiences. The project is currently moving from pre-production into production. UI art direction is semi-established and expected to evolve, so the ideal candidate should be comfortable prototyping, iterating, and helping define implementation patterns as the project matures.
Responsibilities
- Implement UI screens, flows, widgets, animations, and interaction behaviors directly within Unreal Engine 5
- Work with UX Designers to interpret user flows, wireframes, Figma designs, HTML prototypes, and design documentation
- Partner with UI Engineers to build technically sound, scalable, and reusable UI structures
- Collaborate with UI Artists to ensure assets are integrated accurately and polished in-engine
- Prototype and refine frontend and in-match UI experiences
- Support 2D UI implementation, including possible 3D-anchored, 2D-rendered gameplay UI elements
- Help implement expressive yet functional UI motion using UMG, Sequencer, materials, and Blueprint-driven workflows
- Build and maintain UI prefabs, widgets, layouts, animation states, and interaction prototypes
- Validate UI across mobile-centric and multi-platform experiences within the Fortnite ecosystem
- Work with sound and VFX teams to align UI animations, celebratory moments, input feedback, and visual effects with the broader game style
- Support production handoff by documenting implementation details, edge cases, interaction rules, and dependencies
- Contribute to seasonal updates, publishing tasks, and live-service UI iteration
Requirements
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
- Strong experience implementing game UI in Unreal Engine
- Hands-on experience with UMG and Blueprint-based UI workflows
- Ability to translate UX flows and visual direction into functional in-engine UI
- Strong understanding of layout, interaction design, UI motion, animation timing, and responsive behavior
- Ability to work closely with engineering while remaining comfortable with visual and experiential design concerns
- Experience creating prototypes and production-ready UI assets or screens in-engine
- Familiarity with Figma-based design workflows
- Ability to iterate quickly within a changing creative and technical environment
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across UX, art, engineering, design, production, VFX, and sound
- Good understanding of multi-platform UI constraints, especially mobile-centric interaction patterns
- Excellent English proficiency (B2 level or higher)
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AI assistants
- Background in the gaming industry
Benefits
- International projects with top brands
- Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
- Healthcare benefits
- Employee financial programs
- Paid time off and sick leave
- Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
- Global career opportunities
- Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
- EPAM Employee Groups
- Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn