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Riot's mission is to put players at the center of everything we do. We do this by continuing to evolve and deliver new experiences to players with games like League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runterra, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot is also expanding into the world of music/multimedia with the release of our animated series Arcane and music from KDA and True... Damage. In short - it's an exciting time to be a "Rioter." As Riot's mission is to put players at the center of everything we do. We do this by continuing to evolve and deliver new experiences to players with games like League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runterra, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot is also expanding into the world of music/multimedia with the release of our animated series Arcane and music from KDA and True... Damage. In short - it's an exciting time to be a "Rioter."

As a Director of Product Management (DoPM) at Riot, you will combine deep experience with product leadership capabilities to provide players with essential features and supporting systems. As the DoPM for League of Legends, you will ensure and optimize the business health for one of the biggest games in the world. You will seek and utilize quantitative and qualitative information to maximize outcomes for both player experiences and business outcomes, working with team members across the entire League of Legends team to deliver meaningful changes to how we think, operate, and serve players. You will report to the Game Director of League of Legends.
Responsibilities:
• Primary thought partner for League of Legends' Game Director in identifying opportunities and formulating strategies to maximize League of Legends success for today and the future
• Mentor the Insights team, including industry-leading talent in Research and Analytics, to help them provide maximum actionable value to key product initiatives
• Sought-after collaborator for team members of all crafts and levels around how both existing and new workstreams can convey maximum value to both players and Riot
• Be the first and last line of ownership for business health, truly understanding what metrics matter most to player and Riot value and reinforcing our understanding of those metrics
• Drive the team to work smarter with the product components we already have, creating better outcomes from better strategic utilization of existing or adjacent capabilities
Required Qualifications
• 9+ years of relevant industry experience
• Able to leverage a variety of quantitative & qualitative tools and frameworks to deeply understand player needs and motivations for a large, complex group of audience segments with significant variation
• Effectively prioritizes problem and opportunity spaces using structured frameworks to ensure consistent decision making and prioritization across all areas of ownership. Anticipates future shifts in player needs and adjusts plans accordingly.
• Highly proficient in strategy development for a large organization and business units with numerous disparate elements, effectively navigating a complex, changing landscape and generating organization-level business impact
• Expert in sharing information, creating common understanding and building alignment, even among stakeholders audiences of different priorities, perspectives & motivations
• Highly flexible systems thinker who understands inter-relationships between different game systems, and can draw parallels across different games, varied genres & player archetypes
• Live operations and player lifecycle leader, driving insights and strategies for both their game team and Riot as a whole. Is able to lead teams to deploy suite of context-dependent tactics to innovate and incorporate best practices for player life cycle management
• Able to guide and lead a team to efficiently generate, test and/or validate hypotheses, leading to high conviction decisions that advance the goals of their team or focus area. Demonstrates thought leadership across the organization in discovering and sharing high impact insights
• Experience managing analytics experts to identify, hypothesize, and validate highest opportunity Product workstreams
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience owning the P&L for a product
• Deep quantitative analytics background with applicable hard skills
• 5+ years of experience working on a live operated Games-as-a-Service product

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.
Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

(Los Angeles only) Base salary range between $198,000 USD - $298,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history
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Game Creative Directors at Riot define and oversee the overall creative strategy for a product. You'll create inspiring creative direction across experiences that genuinely surprise and delight our players. You will help build the product strategy and tie the product's goals to the target audience. Creative direction is for the team; as the Creative Director acts as the intersection between... aesthetics, story, and brand that evokes a visceral response Game Creative Directors at Riot define and oversee the overall creative strategy for a product. You'll create inspiring creative direction across experiences that genuinely surprise and delight our players. You will help build the product strategy and tie the product's goals to the target audience. Creative direction is for the team; as the Creative Director acts as the intersection between... aesthetics, story, and brand that evokes a visceral response in players. At that intersection you'll lead with vision and demonstrate incredible taste with a high quality bar. You'll represent the game at the IP strategy level and work with fellow Creative Directors to shape the future of the IP.

As a Game Senior Creative Director, you will report to the Executive Producer and will provide creative direction for League of Legends, the largest PC game in the world. As the GCD you will bring together, guide, and inspire a group of multi-discipline developers to achieve our multi-year creative vision. You will ensure alignment and cohesion across the game story, characters, and world. You'll make sure all choices fit the tone and creative feel of the game and bring their intended experience to players. You will partner with Entertainment and other game teams to ensure League of Legends is aligned to our creative vision across all media.

Responsibilities
• Create a multi-year creative strategy that provides thematic cohesion for the game
• Partner with the Executive Producer to ensure League's product strategy is interwoven with our creative approach and long-term vision
• Partner with the Game Director to sculpt thematics that support the game experience
• Articulate the intended emotional experience of all aspects of the game
• Provide an inspirational north star that empowers creatives to navigate the unknown
• Produce artifacts that inform, align, and empower disciplines working in creatives spaces, especially art, narrative, and audio
• Collaborate proactively w/ marketing Creative Director to ensure one cohesive experience from the first ad or teaser to the final victory in-game.
• Foster a creative culture empowering and mentoring future creative leaders

Required Qualifications
• 15+ years of relevant experience with at least 10+ years experience in game development
• Operated as a key creative decision-maker on multiple games
• Experience collaborating with multiple disciplines to achieve a goal
• Professional experience building and communicating creative frameworks and creative strategy
• An excellent communicator that inspires by infusing a pitch with emotional intent
• Experience hiring and managing direct reports

Desired Qualifications
• Operated as a key creative decision-maker a live game or games with a global audience
• Has shipped at least one game title as a creative director
• Deep knowledge of the League of Legends IP
• Background in design, narrative, or art

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

(Los Angeles only) Base salary range between $220,000 USD - $330,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history
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via The Muse posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
As a Quality Assurance Engineer II at Riot, you run the QA process for your teams that make features on Riot's products. You work with teams of software engineers, content developers, artists, producers and project managers to create value for Players around the world. You are guided by Riot's Test Policies to do the quality activities at every stage of the software development life cycle that... set your teams up for success. As a QA Engineer II As a Quality Assurance Engineer II at Riot, you run the QA process for your teams that make features on Riot's products. You work with teams of software engineers, content developers, artists, producers and project managers to create value for Players around the world. You are guided by Riot's Test Policies to do the quality activities at every stage of the software development life cycle that... set your teams up for success.

As a QA Engineer II on League of Legends’ Motivations: Operational Excellence (OpEx) team, you will primarily work on service & tooling improvements for features such as Store, Loot, Missions, and Content Configuration that support both League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics. You're responsible for ensuring that delivery intent is understood by the test teams, risks to quality are highlighted and communicated, and that your teams have the necessary resources to reach your quality goals. You will guide the implementation of testing processes and help identify opportunities for automated test solutions. You'll take on complex and ambiguous problem spaces and assure quality for the team with your solutions. A QA Engineer II will typically report to a QA Manager.
Responsibilities
• Drive the implementation, execution, and socialization of the team test strategy for your deliverables
• Identify and communicate risks to team quality goals, identify concerns around impact, probability of occurrence, and proposed mitigation strategies
• Utilize a growth mindset to help your team identify best practices or process iteration that help ship great products
• Manage the defect database for the team, setting and enforcing best practices
Required Qualifications
• A minimum of 3 years as a software quality assurance experience
• Experience owning test strategy, planning, and design for a multidisciplinary team or teams
• Understanding of test methodologies
• Experienced in Agile development pipelines
Desired Qualifications
• Development experience across several platforms; mobile, console, and PC
• A foundational understanding of back-end systems integration testing requirements
• Preferred Licenses/certifications:
• ISTQB Foundation Level
• ISTQB Agile Tester or ICAgile Agile Testing (ICP-TST)
• ISTQB Expert Level
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager
• ICAgile Test Expert (ICE-AT)

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!
Our Perks

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

(Los Angeles only) Base hourly range between $47.12 USD - $66.35 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00
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via ZipRecruiter posted_at: 6 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Riot Games was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill with the intent to change the way video games are made and supported for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to worldwide acclaim. The game has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and... it's for them we continue to evolve and improve Riot Games was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill with the intent to change the way video games are made and supported for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to worldwide acclaim. The game has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and... it's for them we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience. Riot Games is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and has 23 offices worldwide.

The last 12 months have been amazing for esports at Riot. We held our most-watched League of Legends Worlds Championship, and we ran our first global tournaments for VALORANT, Wild Rift, and Legends of Runeterra. On the back of that success, and in our ever-growing dedication to our mission to be the most player focused company in the world, we are doubling down on our investment in esports. We are doing this through our high-priority focus on Unleashing Fandom, Reinventing the Watch Experience, and through investing in industry-leading innovations like Project Stryker.

The Sport IO team's mission is to elevate esports competition and operations at all levels of our sports. We do this by focusing on innovating in spaces like broadcast storytelling, training and performance tools, finding and supporting future stars, as well as delivering tools and technology for esports players, teams, and tournaments. We have a mix of user facing experiences through our web properties lolesports.com and valorantesports.com and back-end tools which are used by the broadcast producers and tournament operators.

As the Senior Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for contributing to architecting and implementing vital upgrades to Riot's mission-critical Esports systems. These systems deliver near-real-time Esports data and statistics to our viewers and data partners, introduce Esports related in-game features and integrations, manage and run our Esports events, and future non-public projects.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager in the Esports Sports Innovation and Optimization organization.

Responsibilities:
• You will lead and contribute to technical direction, design, and implementation of the Esports data and game services that drive the future of Esports
• You will lead by technical example, lifting the expertise and skills of people around you through spec reviews, code reviews, documentation, and testing
• You will collaborate with tournament operators and representatives from professional leagues, game engineers, and other engineering organizations to push the cutting edge of Esports
• Contribute to engineering excellence to reduce and mitigate live incidents quickly and effectively
• Drive a strong engineering culture, contributing to growth of technical skills in the team and a growth mindset
• Embrace, maintain and share Game teams' best practices for coding standards, patterns, reviews and CI/CD

Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience or equivalent in Software Engineering
• 1+ years of experience with Game Development and Game Development Patterns(ECS)
• Deep hands-on programming experiences with C++, Java and Lua
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or comparable field or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge and extensive experience providing actionable feedback through code reviews, spec reviews, and architecture designs
• 1+ years of experience with Agile development processes

Desired Qualifications:
• Familiarity with game development engines such as Unreal, Unity or proprietary engines
• Experience with management tools such as Jira or GitHub
• Experience with Version Control systems used in Game Development (Perforce)
• Familiarity with building game content tools and pipelines
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.
Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming
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via ZipRecruiter schedule_type: Full-time
As an Architect Game Designer, you will design and improve the player experience. Your player insight, mechanics expertise, and creativity help create in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will work with interdisciplinary teams, using every tool at hand to design and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world. On the League of Legends... Gameplay Initiative, you will report to the Lead As an Architect Game Designer, you will design and improve the player experience. Your player insight, mechanics expertise, and creativity help create in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will work with interdisciplinary teams, using every tool at hand to design and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

On the League of Legends... Gameplay Initiative, you will report to the Lead Designer. You will push the boundaries of our premier game mode, Summoner's Rift, innovating on the core experience and defining areas for future growth. You will work closely with an interdisciplinary team of experienced game developers, leading design on whole areas of gameplay that haven't previously been explored, and then collaborating with engineers, artists, and others to bring them to life.
Responsibilities:
• Identify major new opportunities for the whole product and validate them
• Lead design on large-scale game systems projects
• Work closely with other designers, guiding them on their own projects
• Apply deep League of Legends and game design knowledge to find new gameplay spaces
• Create clear design documentation that can be evaluated and implemented by non-designers
• Represent your work to producers and other leaders, to ensure cohesiveness of vision
Required Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in professional game design
• 3+ years of experience working as a game designer on a MOBA or related product
• Experience creating and extending complex systems, both through the addition of content and through leading multidisciplinary teams
• Experience leading a substantially important area of innovation in defining the overall game product
• Experience as the primary thought leader of materially-impactful world-class innovations on a commercial video game
Desired Qualifications
• 12+ years of experience in professional game design
• Experience maintaining a live game
• Experience leading Research and Development teams
• Familiarity with the LoL IP

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!
Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.
Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

(Los Angeles only) Base salary range between $198,000 USD - $298,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history
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via LinkedIn posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
The mission of Technical Art at Riot is to establish and improve the systems, tools, rigs, assets, and workflows that unleash the creativity of our artists and allow the production of the best possible art content for our players. As a Senior Tools & Pipeline TA on the PIE-C TechOps team, you'll inform the tech used for content development. This will involve building tools, pipelines, and... workflows for Digital Content Creation software, working The mission of Technical Art at Riot is to establish and improve the systems, tools, rigs, assets, and workflows that unleash the creativity of our artists and allow the production of the best possible art content for our players.

As a Senior Tools & Pipeline TA on the PIE-C TechOps team, you'll inform the tech used for content development. This will involve building tools, pipelines, and... workflows for Digital Content Creation software, working with engineering in the design of our in-house tools, and consulting with art to discover the best possible solutions to the challenges we face. Your primary focus will be on our Art Sustainability Update (ASU) project, and you'll report to the Tools & Pipeline TA Lead on TechOps.

Responsibilities
• Level up the end-to-end workflow for our many art disciplines, such as Character Art, Animation, Rigging and VFX.
• Provide technical support to artists working from our art workflows, collecting data to further improve the tools they are using, making recommendations and improvements where necessary.
• Be an available and eager mentor for other Technical Artists in their craft.
• Be an active member of the Technical Art community within Riot by participating in craft-focused meetings and events.
• Build close relationships with the artists and engineers you work alongside to better understand their needs and to collaborate with on tool and pipeline development.
• Troubleshoot production issues with tools and art creation workflows.

Required Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience as a technical artist in games or related industries
• Expertise in industry standard content creation tools, such as Maya and Photoshop
• Fluency in Python and related UI frameworks such PyQt/PySide
• Expertise in digital asset repositories, such as Perforce
• Programming fundamentals, such as data structures, algorithms, and design patterns

Desired Qualifications
• Experience writing C++
• Experience with automation frameworks, such as Jenkins or Bamboo
• Experience with serverless computing, such as AWS Lambda or GC Functions
• Experience in game development using modern engines, such as Unreal and Unity

For this role, you’ll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Our Perks

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in gaming.

(Los Angeles only) Base salary range between $168,000 USD - $234,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00
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via ShowbizJobs posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 136K–190K a year
In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends and has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Delivering visually stunning experiences for a global audience while also building new games gives artists exciting and complex problems to solve. Here, artists are working not only with one another, but also... side-by-side with game designers, narrative writers, audio designers In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends and has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Delivering visually stunning experiences for a global audience while also building new games gives artists exciting and complex problems to solve. Here, artists are working not only with one another, but also... side-by-side with game designers, narrative writers, audio designers and engineers to ensure that each piece of content from Riot reaches the level of quality players deserve. From animations to illustrations, cinematics to comics, characters to environments, we work as a team to put players first.

As a Senior Splash Illustration Artist for the League of Legends Splash Illustration team your craft expertise and eye for illustration will help deliver deep engagement and rich fantasy worlds to our players. You will be a key member of your discipline community, supporting the craft and execution across the whole splash team by mentoring teammates and cultivating excellence. You will produce illustrations at the highest quality bar, at times raising or redefining what good looks like. You will partner with the Producer, Art Manager and Craft Lead to support team rituals, art direction and product cohesion on a variety of illustrations for Skins and Champions.

Responsibilities

• Consistently solid craft executor of high-quality 2D Splash Illustrations with minimum oversight.

• Assist in driving the quality of the team's work and set the bar for excellence.

• Maintaining the illustration quality and mentoring our vendors by participating in review meetings and providing constructive feedback to external art teams.

• Mentoring and coaching artists in creating high end Splash illustrations and developing their art skills.

• Sharing of craft expertise and knowledge through discipline, community, mentorship and art collaboration.

• Support team leadership through style guide creation, participating and assisting in team rituals, identifying areas for improvement and consistent feedback.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience

• Showcase ability to create high quality 2D Splash Illustrations

• Extreme proficiency in art fundamentals, visual storytelling, anatomy, lighting, materials and color theory

• Expertise in Splash Style including stylized anatomy, heroic compositions and cinematic/realistic believability

• Advanced experience creating high end digital art assets in Adobe Photoshop

• Highly experienced with 2D Illustration Asset production pipelines, and showing a strong ability of driving illustrations for the thumbnails to the final state.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in working in a team environment and collaborating with different disciplines.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience owning and effectively communicating about projects and workflow

• AAA Game Development experience

• Familiarity with League of Legends Characters, IP Universes and Lore

As a part of the application process, candidates will be expected to provide a portfolio of their work.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

(Los Angeles office only) Base salary range between $136,000 - $190,000 + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).

Note: Posting is subject to change so please refer to career site for latest availability (SBJ-G337
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As a Staff Software Engineer - Quality, Service Operations Engineering, you will report to the Initiative Engineering Director. You will set the test direction and standards to promote the vision of service quality at Riot so that, "Gamers worldwide know that every experience they have with Riot will be a quality experience." You will solve unique problems that require an ability to evaluate... scope and work on solutions. You will direct individual As a Staff Software Engineer - Quality, Service Operations Engineering, you will report to the Initiative Engineering Director. You will set the test direction and standards to promote the vision of service quality at Riot so that, "Gamers worldwide know that every experience they have with Riot will be a quality experience." You will solve unique problems that require an ability to evaluate... scope and work on solutions. You will direct individual contributors or even small teams on specific work projects. You will develop multiple quality initiatives within Service Operations Engineering.

You are accountable for managing the quality process for your teams and products. You are the main driver from the enginnering discipline to develop test strategies and designs, nurturing of quality culture, and building understanding and solid collaboration between engineering and other disciplines. You are guided by Riot's Test Policy to develop quality activities for every stage of the software development life cycle. Additionally, you partner with your teams and craft leaders to arrive at more efficient solutions to everyday problems and improve delivery. You are recognized at Riot as a craft expert on multiple dimensions.

Responsibilities
• Drive quality across all disciplines, providing guidance, feedback, and suggestions to improve quality practices across engineering organization.
• Work with Engineering Managers to mentor team members in quality and engineering craft.
• Contribute to technical leadership and strategic direction to continuously improve the product and service quality at the initiative level.
• Define and drive quality strategy and manage quality operations for the initiative. This includes but is not limited to automation, continuous integration, release testing and test case management.
• Partner with customer facing groups such as PMs, UX, SEs to better understand how customers interface and use our product to drive quality early and often in SDLC.
• Author and enhance test plans based on feature requirements and specifications, as well as technical discussions and deep dives with engineers.
• Build, enhance and maintain automation frameworks utilized by team to automate critical user scenarios for regression testing.
• Prioritize and execute test cases in an environment that's representative of production environment.
• Partner with support and engineering to investigate, troubleshoot and identify/implement fixes for customer facing issues.
• Driving risk based testing and improving risk management processes.
• Managing external vendors and remote teams when needed.

Required Qualifications:
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, specifically testing, frameworks and automation.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• High proficiency coding in Python, Java and/or C++.
• Strong understanding of CS fundamentals including OO concepts, data structures, algorithms, and microservices architectures.
• Experience with cloud technology including GCP, AWS and/or Azure.
• Proven experience developing comprehensive and effective test and performance tools, as well as frameworks.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements.
• Experience delivering quality software in a large distributed system with emphasis on functional and performance automation, workloads and testing.
• Considerable experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment systems like Jenkins.
• Experience coaching Software Enginner or QA team members on test design, planning and execution.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

(Los Angeles only) Base salary range between $170,000 USD - $238,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history
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As a Technical Art Director, you will lead and define technical art across all of the different creative and technical teams in League Studio. You will partner with Senior Tech Art, Art, Engineering, and Production Leadership across League Studio to guide creation and implementation of long-lasting tools, workflows, and pipelines, so that creatives can iterate efficiently without technical... hurdles. Additionally, you will work with people across As a Technical Art Director, you will lead and define technical art across all of the different creative and technical teams in League Studio. You will partner with Senior Tech Art, Art, Engineering, and Production Leadership across League Studio to guide creation and implementation of long-lasting tools, workflows, and pipelines, so that creatives can iterate efficiently without technical... hurdles. Additionally, you will work with people across the Studio to ensure consistent best practices and support across the discipline.

As a Director, Tech Art on the League Studio Tech Foundations team, you will report to the Head of Tech Foundations. You will lead through supporting senior Tech Artists across League Studios to accomplish the following: establishing future-facing workflow and pipeline vision, helping establish the following general standards for rigging & animation, VFX, rendering, cut scene, level and UI editing tools, and building a long-term strategy for League of Legends' multi-game future.

You will manage technical artists on Tech Foundations, designing and creating tools to support a unified source art pipeline that serves multiple games and engines. We are looking for an extensive background in game-development and pipelines as a whole. You will identify strategic art resource needs and promote staffing for all tech art roles on the team. As a part of the leadership team, you'll develop strategies and eliminate obstacles with other leaders to achieve broader product goals.
Responsibilities:
• Define through collaboration with other Tech Art Directors and communicate a cohesive strategy for artistic workflows and pipelines for League Studio
• Collaboratively define and grow the Technical Art discipline within League Studio including standards and processes.
• Lead teams in identifying and prototyping new opportunities to incorporate technology to increase art workflow efficiency and unlock new creative opportunities
• Lead TA directors across the Studio to convergence of craft and workflows for shared tools
• Manage technical artists on Tech Foundations, including organizational planning, staffing, performance management and related functions.
• Partner with senior discipline leaders to define expectations between tech art, art, engineering, and production
• Represent the needs of the League Studio across Riot technical art leadership
• Fill in initial tech art gaps on new or exploratory products or teams, and set them up for sustainability
• Work with IT and other technical organizations across the company to ensure alignment and support for product
• Establish and enhance collaboration and communication between Tech Art, Engineering and Artists across League Studios projects
• Coordinate tech art efforts at a high level across the various League Studios projects
• Ensure staffing and allocation of technical artists within Tech Foundations
Required Qualifications:
• 12+ years of experience as a technical artist in games or related industries
• 8+ years experience in management in games or related industries
• Experience building strategic visions and working within leadership in large organizations
• Capability to act as an ambassador between art and engineering
• Experience with and commitment to building long-term maintainable, testable, portable, easy to use, and stable systems
• Mastery in at least one industry established game engine such as Unreal, Unity, Frostbite or Cry Engine
• Experience in multiple aspects of character pipelines (rigging, modeling, texturing and look development)
• Experience in rendering and shader development (e.g. HLSL and GLSL)
• Experience with Maya and scripting in Python
• Proficiency with object-oriented compiled languages (e.g. C++, C#)
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with ZBrush, Substance, Houdini and Simplygon pipelines
• Experience working with external vendors and technology partners

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.
Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code . Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming .

(Los Angeles only) Base salary range between $220,000 USD - $330,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history
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Riot Games was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill with the intent to change the way video games are made and supported for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to worldwide acclaim. The game has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and... it’s for them we continue to evolve and improve Riot Games was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill with the intent to change the way video games are made and supported for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to worldwide acclaim. The game has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and... it’s for them we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience. Riot Games is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and has 23 offices worldwide.

The last 12 months have been amazing for esports at Riot. We held our most-watched League of Legends Worlds Championship, and we ran our first global tournaments for VALORANT, Wild Rift, and Legends of Runeterra. On the back of that success, and in our ever-growing dedication to our mission to be the most player focused company in the world, Riot is doubling down on our investment in the esports and fan experience with industry-leading innovations like Project Stryker that will make our ambitions come to life.

The Esports Watch team is Riot’s big bet in the area of “Reinventing the Watch Experience.” that will focus on making it easier for fans to find the content that matters most. You can read more about that in our CEO’s blog, “Calling the shot: the Next Five Years at Riot Games.” We are looking for passionate, innovative individuals with a keen eye and ear for fan behaviors. In addition to a large internal team working on this, we are working with external development partners that have specialized expertise who are helping us scale our delivery.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Watch team you’ll be trusted to push large scoped backend projects, collaborate closely with design and product peers, and level up other software engineers in the team. The team’s primary focus is developing a greenfield product and as such there are opportunities to flex both leadership and engineering skills.

You will report to the Director, Software Engineering for Esports R&D.

Responsibilities:
• You will lead and contribute to technical direction, design, and implementation of the Esports watch platform and the services that expand and enhance our player-facing experiences
• You will lead by technical example, lifting the expertise and skills of people around you through spec reviews, code reviews, documentation, and testing
• You will collaborate closely with our esports R&D leadership and Riot platform and technology teams to ensure the right tech capabilities are prioritized and built.

Required Qualifications:
• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• 6+ years of experience or equivalent in Software Engineering in cloud-native or microservice architectures
• 4+ years of experience with AWS (or comparable cloud environments)
• Deep hands-on programming experiences with Java

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
• Familiarity with "Infrastructure as Code" and tooling like Terraform
• Familiarity with CI/CD using Docker and Jenkins
• Experience in digital video workflows and live streaming at scale

Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

(Los Angeles only) Base salary range between $170,000 USD - $238,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00
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