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Visual Design Lead - Legends of Runeterra

Established in early 2016, the Hong Kong Studio is Riot’s first international game development studio. We’re a diverse team, representing more than 15 nationalities and partnering with teams in the LA headquarters on League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runeterra. On top of this, we’re currently building teams for Project A, a character-based tactical shooter, and Project L, our take on the fighting game genre.

While operating like a startup—with autonomy and total ownership—we’re doubling down on our goals to build a world-class studio in a vibrant, international city, on a continent that is home to the League of Legends World Champion teams. The Hong Kong Studio is looking for talented, passionate people across all aspects of game development to help build Riot’s blueprint for a global, multi-studio world... and to make great games!

We focus on working together to promote individual autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and inclusivity so every Rioter can be their best while we boldly pursue games. This means less emphasis on titles and hierarchy and more emphasis on creating the right environment to ship excellent experiences to players.

That's where you come in.

As a Visual Design Lead, you’ll be our creative compass, combining your artistry, passion, and perseverance with your next-level design skills to conceptualize, sketch, color, and render polished, positively stunning graphical elements for Legends of Runeterra. You’ll use your storied artistic background, intellectual curiosity, organizational skills, communicative clout, collaborative countenance, and player-first mindset to create kick-ass visual design work that’ll excite players all over the world.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, detail, and communicate brand standards, style guides, and visual design systems for several projects
• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary task force of programmers, artists, and production managers, creating thoughtful visual design work that’ll inspire and connect with players
• Create engaging visual design solutions that’ll reach both player-focused goals and Studio objectives
• Guide and evolve the aesthetic quality of creative materials, including, but not limited to; visual systems, in-game UI, game menus, application interfaces.....

Required Qualifications;

• your portfolio is cover-to-cover inspiration, packed with eye-popping art both traditional and digital; you’re a master of modern visual design techniques, continually on the cusp of the cusp
• you consider a day without having learned a day wasted; you’re always curious about new techniques and do daily deep dives on next-gen workflow
• you excel at structure, using your next-level arrangement skills to ensure that projects are perpetually expeditious; you set high goals and build the steps that ensure you reach them successfully
• you can clearly communicate with any department in any medium, be it conference call, g-chat, or smoke signal; when teammates are struggling, you happily help with a positive attitude and rolled-up sleeves

• Full relocation support
• Full health insurance for you, your spouse and children
• Open paid time off
• Retirement benefits with company matching
• Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability
• Play Fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games
• We will double down on your donations of time and money to non-profits

Don’t forget to include a portfolio, resume and cover letter. We receive a lot of applications, but we’ll notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you take play seriously.