Senior UX Designer - Legends Of Runeterra

Job Description

As a User Experience Designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity aid in crafting in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to innovate and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

As a Senior UX Designer on Legends of Runeterra, you will be responsible for delivering design work in a high-scope, complex, and often ambiguous product area. Your work will generally encompass multiple features and sometimes span across teams. You will apply design thinking and take a broad approach to ensure experiential continuity across platforms and touch points. You'll work from concept through development and collaborate with other designers to continue to improve the Legends of Runeterra player experience.

Responsibilities:
• Support high-level design goals by developing intuitive and clear UX flows, primarily for our cards' mechanics and new around-the-game features.
• Build wireframes, interactive prototypes, and presentations as needed for proof of concept and implementation.
• Communicate ideas to design, engineering, and art and collaborate across teams to help drive player-experience-first design.
• Be prepared to help implement prototypes (with engineering and UI support) to show proof of concept.
• Articulate design decisions and communicate your data-informed vision, design rationale and solutions to team members.
• Deliver appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g., strategy articulation and alignment frameworks, discovery/research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, mockups and/or prototypes)
• Work with project leadership to establish best-practices and quality standards, and champion user-centered design methodologies

Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience designing for games, digital experiences, products, or platforms as a User Experience Designer, Information Architect, Interaction Designer or similar.
• An inspiring professional portfolio with examples of your past work.
• Professional experience with Figma (preferred), Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch and other industry design and prototyping tools

Desired Qualifications:
• A minimum of a BA/BS degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction/ Interface Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent experience
• Broad or secondary UX skills outside your core specialty: interaction design, content strategy, user research, information architecture, prototyping, visual design, ui animation etc.
• Expertise designing UI to work across multiple devices and form factors.
• Deep experience designing for mobile games.
• A passion for (or an interest in) strategy games or card games, particularly Legends of Runeterra

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.

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