Senior Game Designer, Enemies

Job Description

Senior Game Designer, Enemies - Unpublished R&D Product

As a Senior or Principal Designer specializing in enemy design and core gameplay, you excel in designing enemies and enemy-related mechanics and systems for combat-centric experiences. You partner with other designers, artists, and engineers to ideate, develop, and execute on AI actors which provoke and reward deep and satisfying player decisions and skill tests.

As a Game Designer on an R&D team at Riot, you will collaborate with a highly interdisciplinary team and work with every tool at hand to create innovative, player-focused designs that resonate with millions.

Responsibilities:
• Work with Level Designers, Concept Artists, and System Leads to identify requirements and synthesize proposals for new enemies, ranging from simple fodder to challenging bosses.
• Help drive small cross disciplinary teams (2-5 people) of engineers and artists to bring these AI to life, iterating towards high quality based on player and peer feedback, as well as your own insight.
• Collaborate with other enemy and player combat designers to identify and design overall combat ecosystem improvements where needed.
• In general, create and provide multiple potential designs and solutions to problems and goals aligned on by your team and leads. Articulate trade-offs and risks between different options.
• Playtest the game and help push for continued improvements for existing designs and fresh inventions..
• Work directly in UE5 to build and tune AI behaviors trees, EQS, abilities, and attributes.

Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• 3+ years of experience in enemy or combat design
• Experience working with UE 4 or 5
• You have demonstrated proficiency in scripting in at least one engine in a shipped title
• Deep level of understanding of multiplayer PvE games (ARPG, MMOs, etc.)

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working on a live product
• Shipped or worked on at least one AAA+ online game
• Is familiar with the LoL IP

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be 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.

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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r7zvop-18-224-33-107-42 in your application.