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schedule_type: Full-time
Managers of Game Production lead teams, initiatives and products from conception through launch and operation inside of the gaming space. They create and align teams to product vision, have a deep understanding of player needs, competitors and market conditions, and are able to balance scope, quality and time to predictably deliver at a high quality bar for players.
VALORANT is Riot's take on a... character-based, tactical shooter. As a Manager of
Managers of Game Production lead teams, initiatives and products from conception through launch and operation inside of the gaming space. They create and align teams to product vision, have a deep understanding of player needs, competitors and market conditions, and are able to balance scope, quality and time to predictably deliver at a high quality bar for players.
VALORANT is Riot's take on a... character-based, tactical shooter. As a Manager of Game Production on VALORANT, you'll be responsible for helping Riot deliver high quality and meaningful game progression systems. You will keep the players' experience in mind as you track progress, deliver content/features, and organize priorities and goals. You will also work with artists, designers, and engineers to provide genre-defining experiences to our players. You will report to the Senior Manager for your area.
Responsibilities:
• Drive the creation of team roadmaps that match product priorities
• Validate that the right products are being built through testing and research
• Collaborate across teams and products to deliver holistic player experiences
• Maintain stakeholder relationships and keep them informed of progress, risks and pivots
• Supervise delivery of team work throughout the software development life cycle
• Ensure the execution of risk management, velocity tracking, product review, and quality validation processes
• Continuously improve work systems to push toward development best practices
• Partner with cross-discipline managers to forecast and execute staffing plans
• Grow team members through mentoring, coaching, and direct management
• Build and maintain a positive and inclusive culture and regularly assess team health
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience as a Game Producer or Product Manager
• 2+ years of experience as a people manager
• Experience shipping a game or major game content in a production role
• Experience leading teams through feature development (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working with directly with engine tooling teams
• Deep familiarity with content production pipelines
• Passion and experience with competitive FPS games
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 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 salary range between $136,000 USD - $190,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
(Bellevue only) Base salary range between $136,000 USD - $190,000 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 Show more details...
VALORANT is Riot's take on a... character-based, tactical shooter. As a Manager of Game Production on VALORANT, you'll be responsible for helping Riot deliver high quality and meaningful game progression systems. You will keep the players' experience in mind as you track progress, deliver content/features, and organize priorities and goals. You will also work with artists, designers, and engineers to provide genre-defining experiences to our players. You will report to the Senior Manager for your area.
Responsibilities:
• Drive the creation of team roadmaps that match product priorities
• Validate that the right products are being built through testing and research
• Collaborate across teams and products to deliver holistic player experiences
• Maintain stakeholder relationships and keep them informed of progress, risks and pivots
• Supervise delivery of team work throughout the software development life cycle
• Ensure the execution of risk management, velocity tracking, product review, and quality validation processes
• Continuously improve work systems to push toward development best practices
• Partner with cross-discipline managers to forecast and execute staffing plans
• Grow team members through mentoring, coaching, and direct management
• Build and maintain a positive and inclusive culture and regularly assess team health
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience as a Game Producer or Product Manager
• 2+ years of experience as a people manager
• Experience shipping a game or major game content in a production role
• Experience leading teams through feature development (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working with directly with engine tooling teams
• Deep familiarity with content production pipelines
• Passion and experience with competitive FPS games
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 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 salary range between $136,000 USD - $190,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
(Bellevue only) Base salary range between $136,000 USD - $190,000 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 Show more details...
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posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 151K–211K a year
As a Game Design Manager you'll be front and center in defining the direction of our game. You'll partner with leads from multiple disciplines to ensure that our game is the best it can be, leaving no conceptual stone unturned. You'll be a champion for design excellence, and level up those around you. You’ll apply rigorous critical thinking and a strong dose of imagination to engineer the fun of... thrilling in and out-of-game experiences. You'll
As a Game Design Manager you'll be front and center in defining the direction of our game. You'll partner with leads from multiple disciplines to ensure that our game is the best it can be, leaving no conceptual stone unturned. You'll be a champion for design excellence, and level up those around you. You’ll apply rigorous critical thinking and a strong dose of imagination to engineer the fun of... thrilling in and out-of-game experiences. You'll work with every tool at hand and collaborate with multiple interdisciplinary teams to create player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.
VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). There are millions of players excited to play VALORANT if only it was available on their platform of choice. As a Game Design Manager for Console, you will help set a vision and guide designers on bringing VALORANT to new platforms. You will be responsible for upholding design principles that define VALORANT on PC while transforming it into the definitive tactical shooter for Consoles. Through your leadership and guidance, the design team will adapt the highly challenging PC gameplay to better work for an audience playing on gamepad. You will report to the Lead Designer of the project.
Responsibilities:
• Work with team leads to develop a vision for combat in VALORANT on Consoles
• Ensure that VALORANT design teams are highly performing teams
• Anticipate the needs of players on all relevant platforms and understand the nuanced differences between them.
• Ensure execution in gameplay and delivery schedule for a range of projects in flight from early concept to final polish
• Manage and coach designers across the team
• Influence senior leadership frequently regarding product direction and strategy, both regarding projects and related work (e.g. events, etc...)
• Build positive relationships across other teams at Riot in shared design spaces
• Builds strong relationships with leadership from a range of disciplines to multiply their quality and output
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience in Game Design role; experience as a game design owner of multiple large projects in parallel with successful delivery
• 1+ years people management experience; experience with mentorship of other designers leading to a promotion or substantial positive improvements in their work
• Experience creating systemic change to a design team’s process or principles to improve output significantly across the team
• Experience communicating and expressing complex and nuanced designs in simple ways
• Leadership experience resolving conflict, and when needed offering difficult feedback with respect
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working as a developer on an FPS title.
• Strong understanding Tactical FPS principles and can apply them effectively
• Robust understanding of console FPS market and player motivations and behaviors
• Can quickly produce a wide breadth of mechanics solutions, and generate and identify an excellent solution
• Experience developing on multiple platforms, PC, Mobile, and Console.
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.
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 Show more details...
VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). There are millions of players excited to play VALORANT if only it was available on their platform of choice. As a Game Design Manager for Console, you will help set a vision and guide designers on bringing VALORANT to new platforms. You will be responsible for upholding design principles that define VALORANT on PC while transforming it into the definitive tactical shooter for Consoles. Through your leadership and guidance, the design team will adapt the highly challenging PC gameplay to better work for an audience playing on gamepad. You will report to the Lead Designer of the project.
Responsibilities:
• Work with team leads to develop a vision for combat in VALORANT on Consoles
• Ensure that VALORANT design teams are highly performing teams
• Anticipate the needs of players on all relevant platforms and understand the nuanced differences between them.
• Ensure execution in gameplay and delivery schedule for a range of projects in flight from early concept to final polish
• Manage and coach designers across the team
• Influence senior leadership frequently regarding product direction and strategy, both regarding projects and related work (e.g. events, etc...)
• Build positive relationships across other teams at Riot in shared design spaces
• Builds strong relationships with leadership from a range of disciplines to multiply their quality and output
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience in Game Design role; experience as a game design owner of multiple large projects in parallel with successful delivery
• 1+ years people management experience; experience with mentorship of other designers leading to a promotion or substantial positive improvements in their work
• Experience creating systemic change to a design team’s process or principles to improve output significantly across the team
• Experience communicating and expressing complex and nuanced designs in simple ways
• Leadership experience resolving conflict, and when needed offering difficult feedback with respect
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working as a developer on an FPS title.
• Strong understanding Tactical FPS principles and can apply them effectively
• Robust understanding of console FPS market and player motivations and behaviors
• Can quickly produce a wide breadth of mechanics solutions, and generate and identify an excellent solution
• Experience developing on multiple platforms, PC, Mobile, and Console.
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.
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 Show more details...
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posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
As a UX Designer working with the Competitive team on VALORANT, you will be responsible for delivering design work in a high-scope, complex, and often ambiguous product area. You will own design improvements and features for competitive gameplay, and be a major contributor to our new social competitive teamplay ecosystem: Premier. Premier is all about teaming up with your friends to practice... grow, and compete to become the best in your region.
As a UX Designer working with the Competitive team on VALORANT, you will be responsible for delivering design work in a high-scope, complex, and often ambiguous product area. You will own design improvements and features for competitive gameplay, and be a major contributor to our new social competitive teamplay ecosystem: Premier. Premier is all about teaming up with your friends to practice... grow, and compete to become the best in your region. You will be a key designer on Premier features and help shape what the future of social competitive play on VALORANT will look like.
VALORANT is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (Find out more info on VALORANT). As a User Experience Designer on the team, you will be an important contributor to defining the team's product and feature vision for our players, and trusted to understand how to reach our core audience. You will work closely with your team to produce strong UX flows that have a clear understanding of the heart of the competitive experience. You will report to the UX Manager for your team's area.
Responsibilities:
• Design and improve Competitive and Premier system features, including owning the holistic end-to-end competitive experience.
• Support high-level design in developing intuitive control schemes and UX flows.
• Build wireframes, interactive prototypes, and presentations as needed for proof of concept and implementation.
• Communicate ideas and collaborate across teams to create designs in-game.
• Be prepared to help implement prototypes (with engineering and UI support) to show proof of concept.
• Collaborate across teams and disciplines to design large-scale products for players.
• Articulate design decisions and communicate your data-informed vision, design rationale and solutions to team members.
• Deliver appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g., Strategy articulation, discovery/research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, mockups and/or prototypes)
Required Qualifications:
• 3-5 years experience designing digital experiences, products, and platforms as a User Experience Designer or Interaction Designer
• Experience with Figma for design library management and prototyping, experience with Adobe Creative Suite
Desired Qualifications:
• A minimum of a BA/BS degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction/ Interface Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of experience with Unreal Engine
We will review your work as part of the application process, so please provide a portfolio link or work samples with your application.
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 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) This job has a base salary range of $136,000 USD - $190,000 USD + incentive compensation (annual [and long-term]) + 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 Show more details...
VALORANT is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (Find out more info on VALORANT). As a User Experience Designer on the team, you will be an important contributor to defining the team's product and feature vision for our players, and trusted to understand how to reach our core audience. You will work closely with your team to produce strong UX flows that have a clear understanding of the heart of the competitive experience. You will report to the UX Manager for your team's area.
Responsibilities:
• Design and improve Competitive and Premier system features, including owning the holistic end-to-end competitive experience.
• Support high-level design in developing intuitive control schemes and UX flows.
• Build wireframes, interactive prototypes, and presentations as needed for proof of concept and implementation.
• Communicate ideas and collaborate across teams to create designs in-game.
• Be prepared to help implement prototypes (with engineering and UI support) to show proof of concept.
• Collaborate across teams and disciplines to design large-scale products for players.
• Articulate design decisions and communicate your data-informed vision, design rationale and solutions to team members.
• Deliver appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g., Strategy articulation, discovery/research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, mockups and/or prototypes)
Required Qualifications:
• 3-5 years experience designing digital experiences, products, and platforms as a User Experience Designer or Interaction Designer
• Experience with Figma for design library management and prototyping, experience with Adobe Creative Suite
Desired Qualifications:
• A minimum of a BA/BS degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction/ Interface Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of experience with Unreal Engine
We will review your work as part of the application process, so please provide a portfolio link or work samples with your application.
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 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) This job has a base salary range of $136,000 USD - $190,000 USD + incentive compensation (annual [and long-term]) + 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 Show more details...
via Greenhouse
schedule_type: Full-time
As a Senior Game Designer, you will design, tweak, and improve the player experience. Your player insight and creativity will be used to help create in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to improve and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.
VALORANT is... Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter
As a Senior Game Designer, you will design, tweak, and improve the player experience. Your player insight and creativity will be used to help create in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to improve and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.
VALORANT is... Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). There are millions of players excited to play VALORANT if only it was available on their platform of choice. As a Combat Designer for Mobile, you will help build the design of core combat systems on phones. You will uphold design principles that define VALORANT on PC while transforming it into the definitive tactical shooter for Mobile. You will adapt the challenging PC gameplay to better meet the needs and expectations of mobile players. You will report to the Lead Mobile Combat Designer.
Responsibilities:
• Design gameplay systems that make VALORANT the definitive tactical shooter on mobile
• Work with other disciplines to take content and features from conception to our players' hands.
• Script and prototype shippable content and features
• Seek opportunities for new design spaces in collaboration with Product Managers and Design Leadership.
• Create and provide multiple potential designs and solutions. Articulate trade-offs and risks between different options.
• Playtest VALORANT and help push for continued improvements for existing designs and fresh prototypes.
• Work with the playerbase on all relevant platforms and understand the nuanced differences between them.
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• Shipped or worked on at least one AAA+ online competitive game
• Can create complex systems with attention to the player impacts and downstream effects
• Deep familiarity with FPS games or competitive games
• Can use existing frameworks to develop novel solutions and reverse-engineer designs
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working as a developer on an FPS title on mobile.
• Understand Tactical FPS principles and can apply them.
• Experience with mobile FPS market and player motivations and behaviors.
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 $136,000 USD - $190,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
(Bellevue only) Base salary range between $136,000 USD - $190,000 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 opportunities 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 Show more details...
VALORANT is... Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). There are millions of players excited to play VALORANT if only it was available on their platform of choice. As a Combat Designer for Mobile, you will help build the design of core combat systems on phones. You will uphold design principles that define VALORANT on PC while transforming it into the definitive tactical shooter for Mobile. You will adapt the challenging PC gameplay to better meet the needs and expectations of mobile players. You will report to the Lead Mobile Combat Designer.
Responsibilities:
• Design gameplay systems that make VALORANT the definitive tactical shooter on mobile
• Work with other disciplines to take content and features from conception to our players' hands.
• Script and prototype shippable content and features
• Seek opportunities for new design spaces in collaboration with Product Managers and Design Leadership.
• Create and provide multiple potential designs and solutions. Articulate trade-offs and risks between different options.
• Playtest VALORANT and help push for continued improvements for existing designs and fresh prototypes.
• Work with the playerbase on all relevant platforms and understand the nuanced differences between them.
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• Shipped or worked on at least one AAA+ online competitive game
• Can create complex systems with attention to the player impacts and downstream effects
• Deep familiarity with FPS games or competitive games
• Can use existing frameworks to develop novel solutions and reverse-engineer designs
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working as a developer on an FPS title on mobile.
• Understand Tactical FPS principles and can apply them.
• Experience with mobile FPS market and player motivations and behaviors.
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 $136,000 USD - $190,000 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
(Bellevue only) Base salary range between $136,000 USD - $190,000 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 opportunities 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 Show more details...
via Greenhouse
schedule_type: Full-time
Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in many broader domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team goals. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.
VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based... tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click
Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in many broader domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team goals. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.
VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based... tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As a Staff Software Engineer working on a VALORANT Gameplay Systems Team, you are responsible for helping Riot build features in core gameplay systems such as movement, hit registration, and client/server interaction. You will work with designers, producers, and other engineers to design and implement both player-facing and core systems improvements in Unreal Engine. You will collaborate with a number of other VALORANT teams to ensue a high quality player experience.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop and implement intricate gameplay systems and features
• Collaborate with designers to support design and delivery of gameplay features with highly-varying functionality and technical needs
• Create and/or contribute to best practices, development processes and coding standards
• Build and manage strong relationships between disciplines
• Mentor other engineers and provide technical guidance to the gameplay systems teams
• Act as a trusted advisor to gameplay leadership concerning technical and product roadmap decisions
Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of experience
• 3+ years of experience with C++
• 3+ years of gameplay development experience
• Experience using game engines (e.g. Unreal, Unity)
• Experience collaborating with teammates across multiple disciplines
• Familiarity working in an agile environment
Desired Qualifications
• Experience implementing gameplay systems
• Experience with Unreal Engine
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.
(Bellevue 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 Show more details...
VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based... tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As a Staff Software Engineer working on a VALORANT Gameplay Systems Team, you are responsible for helping Riot build features in core gameplay systems such as movement, hit registration, and client/server interaction. You will work with designers, producers, and other engineers to design and implement both player-facing and core systems improvements in Unreal Engine. You will collaborate with a number of other VALORANT teams to ensue a high quality player experience.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop and implement intricate gameplay systems and features
• Collaborate with designers to support design and delivery of gameplay features with highly-varying functionality and technical needs
• Create and/or contribute to best practices, development processes and coding standards
• Build and manage strong relationships between disciplines
• Mentor other engineers and provide technical guidance to the gameplay systems teams
• Act as a trusted advisor to gameplay leadership concerning technical and product roadmap decisions
Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of experience
• 3+ years of experience with C++
• 3+ years of gameplay development experience
• Experience using game engines (e.g. Unreal, Unity)
• Experience collaborating with teammates across multiple disciplines
• Familiarity working in an agile environment
Desired Qualifications
• Experience implementing gameplay systems
• Experience with Unreal Engine
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.
(Bellevue 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 Show more details...
via Hitmarker
posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 168K–234K a year
We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager for the development of high quality Character Art on Valorant. Do you love collaborating to expand on a new Riot IP in the competitive shooter genre? Join us as we continue on our journey!
The Senior Manager is an industry veteran with expertise in vision and craft. They have practical experience in defining and maintaining a world-class artistic... vision to support the overall game vision with a proven
We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager for the development of high quality Character Art on Valorant. Do you love collaborating to expand on a new Riot IP in the competitive shooter genre? Join us as we continue on our journey!
The Senior Manager is an industry veteran with expertise in vision and craft. They have practical experience in defining and maintaining a world-class artistic... vision to support the overall game vision with a proven execution. They will coordinate a team of artists across multiple subject areas to execute on the creative and product vision . The ideal candidate has been in a Senior/Lead role on several titles and is able to bring this expertise to bear in content creation, collaboration, and communication to craft a broader player experience.
Responsibilities
• Develop the aesthetic pillars of the project, so it can be executed via defined specifications, reference materials, and style guides for environments, characters and creatures, props, lighting, and visual effects. Ensure all art assets are of the highest artistic quality and uphold the integrity of the vision of the game.
• Partner with the character leads from multiple disciplines to identify and solve artistic challenges including refining and maintaining aesthetic standards, and influencing the technical direction to best support the artistic, design, and narrative goals, and evolving the stylistic vision.
• Work with recruiting and project leadership to establish and support the growth, staffing, and resource allocation of the character art discipline over time.
• Lead a team of cross-disciplinary artists through all phases of development and champion their needs.
• Partner with Production Managers to maintain and focus the ambitions of the character art vision, including refining the process for developing estimates, crafting efficient content, and establishing clear review gates. Identify and address misalignment across Disciplines, Initiatives or Products.
• Work with the other directors, leads, and producers to support collaboration across art, animation, design, audio, engineering, and user research to reach project goals through art-driven solutions to product challenges.
• Contribute to studio and team building efforts including team training/development, recruiting, community outreach, and networking.
• Partner with Art Leadership on Valorant to maintain a cohesive vision and shared standards across the Art Organization.
• Serve as the ‘Character Art Liaison’ between the development team and publishing and merchandise departments to ensure alignment and support for non-game deliverables and products.
Requirements
• 7+ years of professional experience developing real-time 3D games or related industries
• Worked on AAA game titles in an Art Lead or Art Director role.
• Expertise in character development workflows, tools, and pipelines.
• Build and maintain a healthy organizational structure to meet product objectives for the Character team
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience developing games in Unreal
• Shipped at least one AAA game title in an Art Lead or Art Director role.
• Experience with multiple artist work streams; ideally this includes hands-on experience in more than one art field such as Concept Design, VFX, Lighting, Characters, Materials, etc.
• Highly proficient communication skills and capacity to act as an ambassador between Design, Concept, 3D, Tech Art, Animation and VFX.
• Experience with the technical requirements for a variety of game platforms such PC, mobile, and console
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
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 Show more details...
The Senior Manager is an industry veteran with expertise in vision and craft. They have practical experience in defining and maintaining a world-class artistic... vision to support the overall game vision with a proven execution. They will coordinate a team of artists across multiple subject areas to execute on the creative and product vision . The ideal candidate has been in a Senior/Lead role on several titles and is able to bring this expertise to bear in content creation, collaboration, and communication to craft a broader player experience.
Responsibilities
• Develop the aesthetic pillars of the project, so it can be executed via defined specifications, reference materials, and style guides for environments, characters and creatures, props, lighting, and visual effects. Ensure all art assets are of the highest artistic quality and uphold the integrity of the vision of the game.
• Partner with the character leads from multiple disciplines to identify and solve artistic challenges including refining and maintaining aesthetic standards, and influencing the technical direction to best support the artistic, design, and narrative goals, and evolving the stylistic vision.
• Work with recruiting and project leadership to establish and support the growth, staffing, and resource allocation of the character art discipline over time.
• Lead a team of cross-disciplinary artists through all phases of development and champion their needs.
• Partner with Production Managers to maintain and focus the ambitions of the character art vision, including refining the process for developing estimates, crafting efficient content, and establishing clear review gates. Identify and address misalignment across Disciplines, Initiatives or Products.
• Work with the other directors, leads, and producers to support collaboration across art, animation, design, audio, engineering, and user research to reach project goals through art-driven solutions to product challenges.
• Contribute to studio and team building efforts including team training/development, recruiting, community outreach, and networking.
• Partner with Art Leadership on Valorant to maintain a cohesive vision and shared standards across the Art Organization.
• Serve as the ‘Character Art Liaison’ between the development team and publishing and merchandise departments to ensure alignment and support for non-game deliverables and products.
Requirements
• 7+ years of professional experience developing real-time 3D games or related industries
• Worked on AAA game titles in an Art Lead or Art Director role.
• Expertise in character development workflows, tools, and pipelines.
• Build and maintain a healthy organizational structure to meet product objectives for the Character team
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience developing games in Unreal
• Shipped at least one AAA game title in an Art Lead or Art Director role.
• Experience with multiple artist work streams; ideally this includes hands-on experience in more than one art field such as Concept Design, VFX, Lighting, Characters, Materials, etc.
• Highly proficient communication skills and capacity to act as an ambassador between Design, Concept, 3D, Tech Art, Animation and VFX.
• Experience with the technical requirements for a variety of game platforms such PC, mobile, and console
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
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 Show more details...
via ZipRecruiter
schedule_type: Full-time
Riot Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You'll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.
In this role you'll be part of a... passionate, cross discipline team of developers to implement
Riot Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You'll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.
In this role you'll be part of a... passionate, cross discipline team of developers to implement and design the game assets and code implementation of exciting existing premium content, such as gun skins. In addition your team will build new features and types of in-game content to give players even more ways to express themselves in VALORANT. Part of the role is to collaborate deeply with all the art disciplines that help create our content as well as Design and Product Management to help create content that players will love. You will report to the team's Engineering Manager.
VALORANT is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!).
Responsibilities:
• Design, build and ship the technology for premium content end to end: during creation by artists, when players view the content in the out of game experience, and when players are using the content in game.
• Collaborate effectively with art, design, and other disciplines within game development.
• Work with Artist and Art teams to help create new kinds of content or improve existing ones to help realize the vision of the game
• Create and/or contribute to best practices, development processes and coding standards; demonstrate a high bar of craft excellence for your team
• Mentor and grow other engineers on the team
Required Qualifications:
• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer
• BS degree or equivalent experience
• Professional or hobby experience with C++, Java, C#, or similar language(s
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with the C++ language specifically
• Experience working with visual effects, 3D, or other artists either in games or in another industry
• Experience with Unreal Engine or a similar game engine
• Familiarity working in an agile environment
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 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.
(Bellevue 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.
(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 Show more details...
In this role you'll be part of a... passionate, cross discipline team of developers to implement and design the game assets and code implementation of exciting existing premium content, such as gun skins. In addition your team will build new features and types of in-game content to give players even more ways to express themselves in VALORANT. Part of the role is to collaborate deeply with all the art disciplines that help create our content as well as Design and Product Management to help create content that players will love. You will report to the team's Engineering Manager.
VALORANT is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!).
Responsibilities:
• Design, build and ship the technology for premium content end to end: during creation by artists, when players view the content in the out of game experience, and when players are using the content in game.
• Collaborate effectively with art, design, and other disciplines within game development.
• Work with Artist and Art teams to help create new kinds of content or improve existing ones to help realize the vision of the game
• Create and/or contribute to best practices, development processes and coding standards; demonstrate a high bar of craft excellence for your team
• Mentor and grow other engineers on the team
Required Qualifications:
• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer
• BS degree or equivalent experience
• Professional or hobby experience with C++, Java, C#, or similar language(s
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with the C++ language specifically
• Experience working with visual effects, 3D, or other artists either in games or in another industry
• Experience with Unreal Engine or a similar game engine
• Familiarity working in an agile environment
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 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.
(Bellevue 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.
(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 Show more details...
via Greenhouse
schedule_type: Full-time
Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As an Engineering Manager at Riot, you’ll predominantly serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability. You’ll also offer creative solutions to organizational design.
As an Engineering Manager on the... Valorant team, you will help lead the delivery of
Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As an Engineering Manager at Riot, you’ll predominantly serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability. You’ll also offer creative solutions to organizational design.
As an Engineering Manager on the... Valorant team, you will help lead the delivery of new features and content to a live, tactical shooter on multiple platforms. As a leader on our Platform Extensions - Front End team, you will concentrate on building the front end features for Valorant to players. Besides working with and leading the engineers on team, you will have strong collaborations with the UI and UX design teams. You will report to the Senior Manager of Engineering of the project.
Responsibilities:
• You will be both Technology Leader and People Manager for a group of 4-8 engineers
• You will participate in discussions about our product vision and ensure that vision is clear to your team(s).
• You should know what’s being built and why. We are concerned with velocity, execution, quality, and technical debt.
• Your tone is positive and productive. It’s up to you to surface issues, opportunities, wins, and address them head-on.
• You will establish teams that are balanced, functional and strongly aligned with Riot values.
• You will help ensure our teams are healthy. We want team members to be motivated, encouraged, and perform well.
• Where do people want to grow? What role is next for them? How can we help them to get there? We will hold them accountable for getting there while providing mentorship, coaching, and support.
• You can handle tension within and around the team. This could mean keeping a calm head, helping resolve conflicts or responding to emergent issues.
Required Qualifications:
• 3+ years directly leading a software delivery team of 5 or more engineers
• 5+ years experience as a hands-on software engineer.
• Experience across multiple systems and languages
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
Desired Qualifications:
The Manager in this role will lead a team working on front-end UI changes within the Unreal Engine. Ideal candidates will have broad experience which cover 1 or more of the following:
• Professional experience building Games, preferably with Unreal
• Experience building UI/UX
• Multi-platform development experience (PC, Console, Mobile)
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:
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.
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.
(Bellevue 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 Show more details...
As an Engineering Manager on the... Valorant team, you will help lead the delivery of new features and content to a live, tactical shooter on multiple platforms. As a leader on our Platform Extensions - Front End team, you will concentrate on building the front end features for Valorant to players. Besides working with and leading the engineers on team, you will have strong collaborations with the UI and UX design teams. You will report to the Senior Manager of Engineering of the project.
Responsibilities:
• You will be both Technology Leader and People Manager for a group of 4-8 engineers
• You will participate in discussions about our product vision and ensure that vision is clear to your team(s).
• You should know what’s being built and why. We are concerned with velocity, execution, quality, and technical debt.
• Your tone is positive and productive. It’s up to you to surface issues, opportunities, wins, and address them head-on.
• You will establish teams that are balanced, functional and strongly aligned with Riot values.
• You will help ensure our teams are healthy. We want team members to be motivated, encouraged, and perform well.
• Where do people want to grow? What role is next for them? How can we help them to get there? We will hold them accountable for getting there while providing mentorship, coaching, and support.
• You can handle tension within and around the team. This could mean keeping a calm head, helping resolve conflicts or responding to emergent issues.
Required Qualifications:
• 3+ years directly leading a software delivery team of 5 or more engineers
• 5+ years experience as a hands-on software engineer.
• Experience across multiple systems and languages
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
Desired Qualifications:
The Manager in this role will lead a team working on front-end UI changes within the Unreal Engine. Ideal candidates will have broad experience which cover 1 or more of the following:
• Professional experience building Games, preferably with Unreal
• Experience building UI/UX
• Multi-platform development experience (PC, Console, Mobile)
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:
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.
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.
(Bellevue 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 Show more details...
via ShowbizJobs
schedule_type: Full-time
As a Game Designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity aid in crafting in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to innovate and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.
VALORANT... is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter
As a Game Designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity aid in crafting in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to innovate and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.
VALORANT... is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As a Game Designer III working on the Competitive Systems team, you will design and deliver world class competitive and ranked systems. You will apply your deep understanding of what motivates competitive players as well as your understanding of how to craft systems with competitive integrity that are satisfying to compete in. You will be responsible for designing features for competitive players across different platforms, and keeping them balanced for their unique audiences once they're live. You will report to the Lead Metasystems Designer.
Responsibilities:
• Design Competitive and Ranked Systems that value players' continued investment in VALORANT.
• Design and support matchmaking services to ensure players compete in fair matches.
• Work with other disciplines to take content and features from conception to our players' hands.
• Seek opportunities for new design spaces in collaboration with Product Managers and Design Leadership.
• Create and provide potential designs and solutions with clearly articulated trade-offs and risks between different options with a clear understanding of content and product level goals.
• Playtest VALORANT and help push for continued improvements for existing designs and fresh prototypes.
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• Shipped or worked on at least one AAA+ online competitive game
• Can create and improve complex systems with attention to the player impacts and downstream effects
• Proven ability to articulate decision-making frameworks with other designers and team members
• Proven ability to think about and deliver solutions for abstract, big-picture problems and strategy.
• Basic familiarity with the psychology and sociology of online behavior and communities.
• Able to effectively influence positive player outcomes by leveraging insights, strategy, and storytelling to get complex work accomplished across a diverse set of partners.
Desired Qualifications:
• Deep level of understanding, passion, and engagement with online competitive games.
• Experience developing online matchmaking or ranked systems.
• Familiarity with online shooters, especially VALORANT and/or tactical shooters
• Views potential 'charged' player feedback as an opportunity to better understand and improve the product.
• Experience balancing competitive integrity with satisfying game feel.
• Experience developing on multiple platforms, such as PC, Mobile, and Console.
• Passion for and engagement with online competitive games and game communities, especially Riot games.
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 and Bellevue only) This job has a base salary range of $136,000 USD - $190,000 USD + incentive compensation (annual [and long-term]) + 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.
Note: Posting is subject to change so please refer to career site for latest availability (SBJ-G337 Show more details...
VALORANT... is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As a Game Designer III working on the Competitive Systems team, you will design and deliver world class competitive and ranked systems. You will apply your deep understanding of what motivates competitive players as well as your understanding of how to craft systems with competitive integrity that are satisfying to compete in. You will be responsible for designing features for competitive players across different platforms, and keeping them balanced for their unique audiences once they're live. You will report to the Lead Metasystems Designer.
Responsibilities:
• Design Competitive and Ranked Systems that value players' continued investment in VALORANT.
• Design and support matchmaking services to ensure players compete in fair matches.
• Work with other disciplines to take content and features from conception to our players' hands.
• Seek opportunities for new design spaces in collaboration with Product Managers and Design Leadership.
• Create and provide potential designs and solutions with clearly articulated trade-offs and risks between different options with a clear understanding of content and product level goals.
• Playtest VALORANT and help push for continued improvements for existing designs and fresh prototypes.
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• Shipped or worked on at least one AAA+ online competitive game
• Can create and improve complex systems with attention to the player impacts and downstream effects
• Proven ability to articulate decision-making frameworks with other designers and team members
• Proven ability to think about and deliver solutions for abstract, big-picture problems and strategy.
• Basic familiarity with the psychology and sociology of online behavior and communities.
• Able to effectively influence positive player outcomes by leveraging insights, strategy, and storytelling to get complex work accomplished across a diverse set of partners.
Desired Qualifications:
• Deep level of understanding, passion, and engagement with online competitive games.
• Experience developing online matchmaking or ranked systems.
• Familiarity with online shooters, especially VALORANT and/or tactical shooters
• Views potential 'charged' player feedback as an opportunity to better understand and improve the product.
• Experience balancing competitive integrity with satisfying game feel.
• Experience developing on multiple platforms, such as PC, Mobile, and Console.
• Passion for and engagement with online competitive games and game communities, especially Riot games.
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 and Bellevue only) This job has a base salary range of $136,000 USD - $190,000 USD + incentive compensation (annual [and long-term]) + 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.
Note: Posting is subject to change so please refer to career site for latest availability (SBJ-G337 Show more details...
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Engineers join Riot to become masters of their craft. They bring a deep passion for helping bring joy to players via technical solutions. As a Software Engineer III on Valorant's Platform Extensions team, you'll dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You'll lead and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.
As a Staff... Software Engineer you will be a technical lead focused
Engineers join Riot to become masters of their craft. They bring a deep passion for helping bring joy to players via technical solutions. As a Software Engineer III on Valorant's Platform Extensions team, you'll dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You'll lead and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.
As a Staff... Software Engineer you will be a technical lead focused on solving foundational problems required to ship Valorant to console game players. You will build technical solutions that help release Valorant onto Xbox and Playstation. The technical work in this area varies from investigating performance issues with Valorant on console to helping build some console tooling so that other teams can develop faster, so it's great for someone that is looking for project variety. Besides working with teams within Valorant, you will have the opportunity to partner with other teams within Riot to help us ship Valorant.
In this role, you'll be:
• Player-Focused: You have strong player empathy, and you want to find solutions that make players excited to experience our game.
• A Collaborator: You want to work elbow-to-elbow with your team members. You are excited to see problems from a different point of view, and make hard tradeoffs to meet multiple goals.
• Efficiency focused: Inefficiency bothers you and you work to create well-oiled machines whenever you can.
• Adaptable: You understand and are comfortable with switching gears between optimization, break/fix, and development and understand the need for rapid re-prioritization.
• A Life Long Learner: You seek input, feedback and ask a lot of questions whenever you can. You want to build a deep understanding of the technology you work with.
Responsibilities:
• Help lead a Sprint Team that delivers code to players in a bi-weekly release cadence
• Create technical designs for new features and architectural changes
• Break designs into smaller tasks, and mentor more junior engineers in executing those tasks across multiple sprints
• Create and implement standards to ensure high quality code
• Coach and mentor more junior engineers through code reviews and 1-on-1 feedback
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience
• 6+ years experience in professional software development, having shipped at least one console game
• Experience with console platform integration
• Excellent knowledge of common game and software design patterns
• Experience mentoring team members to level up their technical capabilities
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience shipping Unreal Engine games to console
• Experience shipping multigenerational console titles
• Familiarity with console-specific build pipelines
• Deep knowledge of modern C++ and optimization techniques
• Prior gameplay experience on a AAA shooter
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
(Bellevue 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.
(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 Show more details...
As a Staff... Software Engineer you will be a technical lead focused on solving foundational problems required to ship Valorant to console game players. You will build technical solutions that help release Valorant onto Xbox and Playstation. The technical work in this area varies from investigating performance issues with Valorant on console to helping build some console tooling so that other teams can develop faster, so it's great for someone that is looking for project variety. Besides working with teams within Valorant, you will have the opportunity to partner with other teams within Riot to help us ship Valorant.
In this role, you'll be:
• Player-Focused: You have strong player empathy, and you want to find solutions that make players excited to experience our game.
• A Collaborator: You want to work elbow-to-elbow with your team members. You are excited to see problems from a different point of view, and make hard tradeoffs to meet multiple goals.
• Efficiency focused: Inefficiency bothers you and you work to create well-oiled machines whenever you can.
• Adaptable: You understand and are comfortable with switching gears between optimization, break/fix, and development and understand the need for rapid re-prioritization.
• A Life Long Learner: You seek input, feedback and ask a lot of questions whenever you can. You want to build a deep understanding of the technology you work with.
Responsibilities:
• Help lead a Sprint Team that delivers code to players in a bi-weekly release cadence
• Create technical designs for new features and architectural changes
• Break designs into smaller tasks, and mentor more junior engineers in executing those tasks across multiple sprints
• Create and implement standards to ensure high quality code
• Coach and mentor more junior engineers through code reviews and 1-on-1 feedback
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience
• 6+ years experience in professional software development, having shipped at least one console game
• Experience with console platform integration
• Excellent knowledge of common game and software design patterns
• Experience mentoring team members to level up their technical capabilities
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience shipping Unreal Engine games to console
• Experience shipping multigenerational console titles
• Familiarity with console-specific build pipelines
• Deep knowledge of modern C++ and optimization techniques
• Prior gameplay experience on a AAA shooter
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
(Bellevue 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.
(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 Show more details...
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