Senior UX Designer, League Studio

Job Description

League Studio is the entity within Riot Games that develops League of Legends, Wild Rift, TFT, and Legends of Runeterra. To support the aspirations of these games, the Studio makes significant investments in developing and advancing the League game platform through the Tech Foundations team.

Hextech is a team within Tech Foundations that is accountable for the technology encompassing the engine, tools, and developer experience shared between all games within the studio. Our mission is to provide an end-to-end solution optimized for League Studio games, including a runtime, suite of content development tools, services, and support.

As a Senior User Experience Designer for the Hextech team, you will spearhead the creation of design standards and best practices for the game creation tools used by artists, designers, and engineers across all of League Studio. You will apply design thinking and take a broad approach to ensure experiential continuity across multiple creative domains (e.g. map creation, UI, animation, VFX, scripting). You'll work from concept through development and collaborate with other designers to achieve your goals. You will work directly with product managers, engineers, and other cross-discipline stakeholders to guide user-centric product design and planning. You will report to the Director of Product Management for Hextech.

Responsibilities:
• Collaborate across teams to design large-scale artist, designer, and engineer tools to support the creation of League Studio games
• Communicate your data-informed vision and design rationale to cross-functional stakeholders
• Deliver appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g., Strategy articulation, discovery / research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, mockups and/or prototypes)
• Break down experiences thoughtfully for teams to be able to ship value incrementally (i.e., Minimum viable experience)
• Manage experiential quality and consistency across features end-to-end
• Work with leaders across League Studio to establish design best-practices and quality standards that can be applied to all League Studio developer tools

Required Qualifications:
• A minimum of 4 years experience designing digital experiences, products, tools, or platforms as a User Experience Designer or Interaction Designer
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch or other industry design and prototyping tools

Desired Qualifications:
• 6+ years experience in user experience design or interactive design
• B.A. in Human-Computer Interaction, Visual Design, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, or a related field
• 2+ years experience designing creation tools for artist, designer, or engineer users
• As a part of the application process, candidates will be expected to provide a portfolio of their work

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

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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:
• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.
• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $176,400.00 - $245,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dyzeeq-18-191-89-2-42 in your application.