Game Designer III - Teamfight Tactics, Gameplay

Game designers at Riot 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 devs from all disciplines and work with every tool at hand to create and polish player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

This role focuses on building the game’s champions, traits, and abilities for players to enjoy and master. TFT set design poses unique challenges: each piece touches every other, with endless combinations and ripple effects for players to puzzle through, represented in dramatic, exciting team fights every round.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with design leadership and the wider design team to improve the game experience across many releases.
• Develop the craft skills to serve as the design lead of a future TFT set.
• Build TFT’s gameplay, whether that’s the champions and traits that carry every new set; or to other gameplay elements that surprise and delight players, like Double Up and Tocker’s Trials. 

• Mentor junior designers to level up their design skills.

Required Qualifications:

Successful candidates will need…

• …5+ years of professional game design experience or equivalent
• …deep familiarity with the auto-battler genre and/or League of Legends
• …empathy and understanding with respect to many different player audiences and needs
• …a great collaborative attitude, and the ability to give nuanced positive and critical feedback
• …a track record of learning design tools, to enable prototyping and building gameplay content within Riot’s tech base

Desired Qualifications:

Bonus XP for…

• …deep understanding of combat feel, polish, and satisfaction - especially when the player isn’t at the controls!
• …experience working in the Unreal engine
• …experience designing mobile games
• …practice giving detailed mentorship and feedback to other designers on their teams
• …previous experience as a design lead or equivalent craft leadership

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is 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. 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.