Principal User Experience Designer - League Of Legends

Job Description

Riot's mission is to put players at the center of everything we do. We do this by continuing to evolve and deliver new experiences to players with games like League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot is also expanding into the world of music/multimedia with the release of our animated series Arcane and music from K/DA and True Damage. In short - it's an exciting time to be a Rioter.
As a Principal User Experience Designer on League of Legends, you'll lead design efforts in a high-impact, high-complexity product space, tackling ambiguous and challenging problems. . Your work will span end-to-end experience design, shaping multiple interconnected features-often across teams-to elevate the player experience. From vision and concepting to final implementation, you'll drive design excellence while collaborating closely with your fellow designers and cross-discipline partners.You will report to the Design Lead of the project..

Responsibilities:
• Work on UX designs across multiple workstreams, focusing on the interaction design and player flows for these areas
• Deliver appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g., Strategy articulation, discovery / research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, mockups and/or prototypes)
• Communicate your data-informed vision and design rationale to the team and stakeholders.
• Break down experiences thoughtfully for teams to ship value incrementally (i.e., Minimum loveable experience), making appropriate trade-offs between features, player needs, and scope
• Establish experiential quality metrics and interaction consistency across player-facing systems
Required Qualifications:
• 6+ years industry experience, having led significant portions of the UX for at least one shipped AAA game title or major release of a consumer-facing digital product
• Understanding of different game patterns across action, strategy, and RPG genres
• Experience with UI prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD
• Experience designing in-game or around-game UX systems
• Ability to plan and estimate UX efforts for projects
Desired Qualifications:
• 8+ years industry experience, having led significant portions of the UX for at least one shipped AAA game title or major release of a consumer-facing digital product
• Experience working in a lead UX role.
• Experience with meta-game design, such as progression, competitive, and monetization systems.
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!

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $206,700.00 - $289,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb458x-18-222-54-32-42 in your application.