Game Designer - League Of Legends, Summoner's Rift Team, Pod

Job Description

Game Designer III - League of Legends, Summoner's Rift Team, Seasonal Pod
Game Designers at Riot craft the systems, mechanics, and content that make up a resonant player experience. We explore how to best push the boundaries of that experience to build new and engaging moments for players.
As a Senior Game Designer on the League of Legends Summoner's Rift Team, you will shape the future of Summoner's Rift by exploring opportunities across diverse player needs, ranging from new players and reviving players to professionals. Your focus will be on delivering impactful, exciting and sustainable improvements that resonate with player motivations and elevate the overall experience. You will collaborate closely with the Live Pod and Game Analysis Team to ensure that these opportunities are balanceable. We are looking for passionate Designers that can deliver creative, yet practical and purposeful Seasonal updates to League of Legends.

Key Responsibilities:
• Canvas the opportunity space to improve the Summoner's Rift experience for new players, reviving players, existing players and professional play.
• Drive the design, development, and delivery of Season Start updates and other large-scale systemic changes.
• Collaborate with the Live Pod and Game Analysis Team to assess the balanceability of content.
• Lead cross-discipline teams to align on and deliver a cohesive design vision.
• Improve and evolve existing design frameworks to meet current and future player needs.
Required Qualifications:
• 6+ years of experience designing systems, mechanics, or content for competitive PvP games.
• Proven ability to understand diverse player motivations (social, innovative, competitive) and deliver designs that resonate across them.
• Proven success in delivering holistic improvements across diverse player segments.
• Successful delivery of large scope Seasonal content or equivalent sized features in PvP games.
• Baseline understanding of all League of Legends gameplay content, including champions, items, runes, and map objectives.
• Strong collaborative skills with partner teams to aid balanceability and player resonance assessments.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Gold+ rank in solo queue.
• Expertise in understanding and optimizing complex game systems.
• Deep knowledge of player behaviors and optimization strategies in competitive games.
• Experience with history of League of Legends, including design trends and metagame evolutions in various regions and skill brackets
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.
At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you're working directly on a new player-facing experience or you're supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we're better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we're looking forward to your application.

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $150,000.00 - $209,600.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjbz41-216-73-216-71-42 in your application.