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Game Designer II - League, PIE

As a Game Designer on the League of Legends Events Team, you'll report directly to the Lead Designer. You will understand and represent the player experience throughout the development of seasonal events and metagame systems. You'll uphold and preserve the competitive integrity of League , whilst working as part of a diverse, multi-discipline team to produce exciting new experiences for our players. You'll also have some shared responsibility for providing game design consultation on player customization products such as champions skins, Event rewards and alternate game modes.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of game design on our seasonal Events, designing missions, challenges and progression content that excites players whilst showcasing and supporting the Event's story or theme.
• Represent the needs and desires of our players in discussions around our Events content.
• Explore brand new Event metagame systems to surprise and delight our players.
• Work within a diverse team of artists, narrative writers, User Experience designers and audio designers to launch outstanding seasonal Events.
• Create or expand existing framework documentation on best-practices around League Events design.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in professional game design
• History of feature ownership, with numerous successful examples of balancing bold goals against shipping value to players.
• You can identify what's appealing to players and why things work. You're able to translate lessons from one game genre to another.
• You can break-down a problem, produce a range of solutions to it, and select the most appropriate one.
• You can describe the goals of your project to designers and non-designers , along with the rationale behind how you reach those goals.
• You can compare and contrast different values against each other to accomplish team goals.

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with narrative design or in implementing narrative-driven content or events
• Understanding of current gaming tastes and trends in the global market, including 'season passes' and other monetization approaches
• Deep familiarity with League of Legends , at any level of play

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.

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, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).