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Director, Game Design - Unpublished R&D Product

As Director, Game Design, you'll be front and center in defining the direction of our game. You'll partner with leads from multiple disciplines to ensure that our game is the best it can be, leaving no conceptual stone unturned. You'll be a champion for design excellence, and level up those around you. You’ll apply rigorous critical thinking and a strong dose of imagination to engineer the fun of thrilling in and out-of-game experiences. You'll work with every tool at hand and collaborate with multiple interdisciplinary teams to create player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

As a Director for Game Design working within R&D, you will help Riot craft systems that shape the future of one of our new game projects. You will lead the build out of the design team through hiring and recruiting internal and external talent. You will mentor and provide design leadership across several features, modes, and systems for an unpublished R&D Project. You will report to the Executive Producer of the Project.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other project level leads from a range of disciplines to create and maintain a complete product strategy that will delight millions of players globally.
• Influence senior leadership frequently regarding design direction and strategy, both regarding projects and related work (e.g. game balance, Design Frameworks, Progression System Selection )
• Hire, manage and coach designers across the team. Establish and maintain a high performance culture for the design organization.
• Ensure execution for a range of projects in flight from early concept to final polish
• Establish and maintain the quality bar for the design discipline across the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in Game Design role; experience as a game design owner of multiple large projects in parallel with successful delivery
• 3+ years people management experience; experience with mentorship of other designers leading to a promotion or substantial positive improvements in their work
• Experience creating systemic change to a design team’s process or principles to improve output significantly across the team
• Experience communicating and expressing complex and nuanced designs in simple ways
• Leadership experience resolving conflict, and when needed offering difficult feedback with respect

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of Live Service PVP action game principles and/or metagame systems principles and can apply them effectively
• Experience in many phases of development (eg. Prototype, Production, Live Service)

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.

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