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As a Game Designer, you will design and improve the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity help craft 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 design and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

As a Game Designer on the League of Legends Player Immersion and Expression (PIE) team, you’ll report directly to the Lead Designer. You will understand, design, represent and communicate the player experience throughout the development of champion skins, seasonal events and other player customization features. You’ll be expected to uphold and preserve the competitive integrity of League, whilst working as part of a diverse, multi-discipline team to produce ambitious new products for our players.

You’ll apply rigorous critical thinking and a large dose of imagination while delivering a wide variety of projects; from smaller-scale, patch-to-patch game design consultation and implementation assistance; right up to exploring, designing and iterating on brand new systems or products over several months.

Responsibilities

  • Take on the responsibility of larger individual projects. You’ll be expected to explore opportunity spaces, design, implement, and coordinate with other team members to launch the project and delight our players
  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to help design and produce League’s in-game seasonal Events, champion skins, personalization systems and other avenues for player immersion and expression
  • Evaluate new champion skins and other personalisation products to ensure that League’s gameplay-clarity is preserved, and that no personalisation product is considered pay-to-win or pay-to-lose
  • Work closely with skin visual/audio artists on ambitious new champion skins, representing the player experience and needs, offering guidance on the gameplay importance of certain abilities or mechanics from the player perspective, and of course technical implementation assistance
  • Openly share work in critiques and seek feedback from other designers
  • Use existing design principles to help deliver high quality work. Help identify new principles and frameworks to aid future design.

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in professional game design
  • You can apply and execute an analytical approach to design. You identify what’s appealing to players and why things work. You’re able to translate lessons from one genre to another.
  • You’re capable of identifying a problem, generating a range of solutions to it, and identifying the most appropriate one. You’re then able create and communicate the details of that proposed solution.
  • You can clearly articulate the goals of your project to both designers and non-designers, along with the rationale behind how you execute on those goals
  • Your work is internally coherent, thematic where appropriate and trades off different values against each other as needed to accomplish team goals
  • History of feature ownership in high speed development situations with numerous successes managing tradeoffs between bold goals and shipping value to players.

Desired qualifications:

  • You deeply understand and communicate player needs, especially around player customization, personalization, and expression
  • You have a strong understanding of current gaming tastes and trends in the global market, including ‘season passes’ and other such monetization features
  • Deep familiarity with League of Legends, at any level of play

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.

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).