Jobs at Riot Games

• Hiring exceptional talent
• Develop an organizational structure, in partnership with product and technical leadership, to accomplish the priorities of the teams and, the broader, League PC studio

• Lead UX design across multiple workstreams, focusing on the interaction design and player flows for these areas
• Deliver appropriate UX design artifacts (wireframes, user flows, etc) and prototype UI

• Calendar and travel management for one or more BU senior leaders; including complex scheduling, meeting and travel arrangements and logistics, expense management, assisting with guests/visitors.
• Assist with senior leadership team meetings scheduling, preparation, logistics.

• Work closely with game teams and content creators to accelerate the pace that we produce content for our games
• Partner with artists, designers, and engineers to prototype new applications of research

• Work closely with game teams and content creators to accelerate the pace that we produce content for our games
• Partner with artists, designers, and engineers to prototype new applications of research

• Provide guidance to engineering team members while establishing and championing alignment around technical initiative areas
• Implement and guide implementation of technical solutions to key product problems

• Technical Leadership: Explore, define, and lead the development of technological initiatives, pushing the boundaries of innovation for new features
• Technical Architecture: Define and drive the architecture of backend services, ensuring scalability, high availability, and efficient performance for millions of players.

• Drive the organization and delivery of team’s feature work

Run day-to-day team production operations
Create and maintain a clean, up-to-date work backlog
Facilitate team meetings, discussions, and decisions
Support team by removing roadblocks and managing distractions
Direct all team rituals
Team has predictable and measurable capacity for work through
Cross-functional work planning with accurate estimations
Velocity tracking on sprint and release basis
Sprint/milestone commitment tracking
Dependency/risk tracking
Quality tracking
Track and communicate progress to stakeholders and rest of team
Track ALL work (planned, unplanned, emergent)
Direct all progress communication
Establish, develop, and maintain stakeholder relationships, keeping them informed of progress and looped in to key decision making
End-to-end feature delivery tracking
Define and ensure work meets definition of done
Update and track against common delivery checklist for shipping
Ensure team's work matches overall project priorities and goals
Strategic work alignment & prioritization

Act as liaison between your team, partner teams and stakeholders
Align team, and be able to articulate how outputs ladder up to strategy and product vision as prioritized by project leadership
Create and maintain the team product roadmap
Create and prioritize team backlog with the Area Leads.
Able to communicate and get stakeholder buy-in on the “why” behind the team’s work

Player resonance

Provide critical product feedback and insights to the team and leadership
Be the advocate for team’s game and business decisions
Champion a player-focused mindset and be the voice of the player
Actively review and engage with players via popular channels (forums, events, etc). Deeply understand the pulse of our players.
Responsible for communicating team staffing needs
Knowledgeable of team workflows to inform staffing needs, estimates, and risks
Responsible for understanding total required scope for team’s efforts
Work with Area Leads to meet staffing needs
Ensures strong team health, culture, and efficiency
Team work systems are efficient and adopted by everyone on the team
Monitors team morale, ensures the team has a safe and supportive environment where they can succeed
Celebrates successes, makes sure team-building happens regularly
Resolves team problems quickly

• Define and lead the data engineering and analytics strategy ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term goals.
• Lead the design and development of scalable data pipelines, ETL processes, data warehousing, and cloud data architectures to support advanced analytics and operational needs.

• Work closely with game feature teams to optimize the way that we design and serve to players
• Partner with game designers & software engineers to design and implement data driven features and services

• Work closely with game feature teams to optimize the way that we design and serve to players
• Partner with game designers and engineers to design and implement data products

• Maintain strategy & audience understanding for the game and operationalize that strategy by ensuring the development team's efforts are aligned with the critical path of creating a successful product & business and are executed effectively and efficiently
• Identify and prioritize product choices that create competitive advantages and adapt to changin...

• Collaborate directly with Art and Design disciplines to understand desired visual behaviors and translate them into specific visual outputs
• Produce shaders and materials that help the team realize visual targets for environments, characters, VFX, and/or UI

• Create UI animatics out of static visual designs, following the Teamfight Tactics and League of Legends quality, style and motion conventions
• Work closely with the Visual Design lead and UI team to support in and around-game features

• Sketch, ideate, and iterate concepts of creatures, props and VFX in collaboration with other developers
• Develop detailed concept art and orthographs for 3D artists and animators to implement into working game assets

• Create high quality animations for a diverse and expanding universe, including bipeds, quadrupeds, and monsters
• Collaborate with designers and artists to create animation assets that fulfill the requirements of the project’s game and visual design

• Create a wide variety of 3D Assets ranging from High Fantasy Characters to Sci-Fi Monsters
• Understand game requirements to create low poly assets that are optimized for deformation and animation

• Design and help implement the sleek, dynamic, and dramatic special effects that add atmosphere and depth to gameplay
• Balance visual satisfaction and gameplay clarity while working to ensure amazing effects are accurately representing a given action or state

• Create 2D UI visuals that balance aesthetics with functionality and follows the Teamfight Tactics quality, style, and visual design conventions.
• Work closely with the Visual Design lead and UI team to support in-game features for new sets that reinforce product goals.

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of data engineers and data scientists, fostering a collaborative environment and supporting professional growth.
• Support a team working collaboratively with product, delivery, technical, and quality leads.