Senior Manager, Art Direction - Valorant: Maps

Job Description

Associate Art Directors at Riot oversee the quality and management of their team with a focus on mission, direction, and cohesion. Your scope of responsibilities include overall team culture and performance, growth of your direct reports, a deep understanding of audience resonance, building vision and strategy in collaboration with team leadership, and directing your team on successful execution of your team's vision and strategy.

As Senior Manager, Art Direction for Maps on VALORANT, you will own the art direction for Maps, ensuring its cohesion in style and quality supports VALORANT's game-wide art direction. You will partner closely with Maps team leadership to ensure your cross-discipline team delivers iconic, creative, and resonant experiences that amplify competitive gameplay for players. You will report into the Area Art Director.

Responsibilities:
• Work with product and design leads to create and drive an art strategy that clearly supports Maps product and design goals
• Lead and manage a high performing, healthy, and collaborative multi-discipline art team
• Actively collaborate with Art Leadership across VALORANT to identify and execute on opportunities for cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Effectively manage stakeholders, like the Creative Director and Product Art Director, to ensure Maps art direction clearly supports game level creative and art goals
• Collaborate with partner teams, like Publishing, to unify environment art expressions across media
• Produce and maintain artifacts that inform, align, and empower teams to successfully create environment art in the VALORANT style

Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience leading environment focused art teams in game development
• Has shipped levels on at least 1 First Person Shooter

Desired Qualifications:
• Professional experience establishing art vision and strategy
• Demonstrated experience managing art leads
• Deep knowledge of the VALORANT 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 players' experiences, this could be your role!
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.
• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $176,400.00 - $245,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
• (Bellevue only) Base salary range between $176,400.00 - $245,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

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).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb06o6-13-58-252-8-42 in your application.