Associate Art Director (Maps)

5 Months ago • 8 Years + • Art

Job Summary

Job Description

The Associate Art Director (Maps) at Riot Games oversees the quality and management of their team, focusing on mission, direction, and cohesion. Responsibilities include team culture and performance, growth of direct reports, understanding audience resonance, building vision and strategy, and directing successful execution. This role owns the art direction for Maps in an unpublished R&D product, ensuring cohesion in style and quality. Close partnership with Maps team leadership is crucial to deliver iconic and immersive experiences. The role also focuses on developing a new art style and pipeline for the project's long-term artistic vision. The Associate Art Director will work with product and design leads to create an art strategy, manage a multi-discipline art team, collaborate with Art leadership, develop pipelines and workflows, grow and build the organization, manage stakeholders, produce informative artifacts, and contribute to key tasks like defining artistic benchmarks.
Must have:
  • 8+ years experience in Environment Art
  • 4+ years leading environment art teams
  • Shipped at least 1 AAA game
  • Stylized game experience
  • Lead and manage art teams
  • Develop art strategies
  • Collaborate across teams
Good to have:
  • Experience establishing art vision and strategy
  • Managing art leads
  • Deep knowledge of Riot's Live Games IPs
Perks:
  • Open paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

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 Environment Art on this project, you will own the art direction for Maps, ensuring its cohesion in style and quality supports the project’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 create immersive levels and environments. You will also focus on developing a new art style and pipeline that will serve as the foundation for the project’s long-term artistic vision. You will report into the Art Director.



Responsibilities

  • Work with product and design leads to create and drive an art strategy that clearly supports the product and design goals.
  • Lead and manage a high-performing, healthy, and collaborative multi-discipline art team, while actively contributing to growing the team by hiring and mentoring new talent.
  • Actively collaborate with Art leadership across the project to identify and execute on opportunities for cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
  • Develop and implement pipelines, workflows, and processes that support the creation of high-quality environment art, ensuring they are scalable and adaptable for production.
  • Grow and build an organization by establishing clear roles, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration, and driving long-term team development strategies.
  • Effectively manage stakeholders, like the Creative Director and Product Art Director, to ensure Maps art direction clearly supports game-level creative and art goals.
  • Produce and maintain artifacts that inform, align, and empower teams to successfully create environment art in the project’s style.
  • Contribute to key tasks, such as defining artistic benchmarks, testing technical solutions, and establishing the foundational vision for environment art.



Required Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience leading environment focused art teams in game development
  • 8+ years of experience in the Environment Art discipline
  • Has shipped at least 1 game at a AAA studio
  • Experience working on a stylized game.



Desired Qualifications

  • Professional experience establishing art vision and strategy
  • Demonstrated experience managing art leads
  • Deep knowledge of Riot’s Live Games IPs



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 focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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 for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the and . 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 and our ongoing work to build the .

 

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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

  • Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
  • Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
  • Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
  • Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

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