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Manager, Game Design - League, Champions

As Game Designers at Riot, we craft the systems, mechanics, and content that make up a deeply resonant player experience. We explore how to best push the boundaries of that experience to build new and engaging moments for players.

As the Game Design Manager of League's Champions team, you will be instrumental in helping to lead a cross-discipline team responsible for the delivery and shipment of new champions into the League ecosystem. Having an understanding of League or other MOBA's will be crucial to understanding what appeals to our players, as well as assisting in the design of a variety of elements (such as counterplay, depth, uniqueness, and thematic cohesiveness). You will design and improve the player experience. You will work with interdisciplinary teams and use every tool at hand to create player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world. You will report into the Senior Game Design Manager.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the LoL Champion Design is a highly performing team
• Improve and advocate for champion gameplay and theme
• Work with team leads to develop a vision for new and updated champions in LoL
• Ensure execution in champion gameplay and delivery schedule for a range of projects in flight from early concept to final polish
• Manage designers on the Champions team
• Influence senior leadership frequently regarding product direction and strategy, both regarding Champion team's projects and related work (e.g. game balance)
• Promote relationships across other teams at Riot in shared gameplay spaces (in particular the balance and new modes teams)

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Game Design role; experience as a game design owner of multiple large projects in parallel with successful delivery
• 1+ years people management experience; experience with mentorship of other designers leading to a promotion or substantial positive improvements in their work
• Experience generating effective and novel solutions for difficult problems in character design
• Top of industry capabilities in character gameplay design
• Experience communicating and expressing complex and nuanced designs in simple ways
• Leadership experience resolving conflict, and when needed offering difficult feedback with respect
• Build strong relationships with leadership from a range of disciplines to multiply their quality and output

Desired Qualifications

• Expertise with LoL champion design principles and ability to apply them
• Can quickly produce a wide array of mechanics solutions, and identify an excellent solution
• Can assess a Champion design thoroughly, identify all major problems, and prioritize them

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