Game Creative Director - Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game

1 Month ago • 13 Years + • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

The Game Creative Director for Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game at Riot Games defines and oversees the overall creative strategy. This role requires partnering with the Executive Producer and Game Director to ensure the product strategy aligns with the creative vision. Responsibilities include articulating the emotional experience of the game, defining a unified vision, integrating lore into gameplay, collaborating on branding and marketing, and staying updated on industry trends. The Creative Director will lead and inspire a multi-disciplinary team, making key creative decisions and ensuring all choices fit the game's feel. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential, along with understanding digital economies and player retention strategies. Direct player community engagement is also a key aspect of the role. The position requires 13+ years of experience in game development, including experience shipping physical products and working with various creative teams and agencies.
Must have:
  • 13+ years game dev experience (digital or physical)
  • Physical product shipping experience
  • Collaboration with artists & art teams
  • Key creative decision-maker on multiple games
  • Excellent communication & inspirational skills
Good to have:
  • Shipped 1+ title as Creative Director with art acclaim
  • League of Legends lore fluency
  • Background in illustration/design
  • Passion for TCG/CCG aesthetics & mechanics
Perks:
  • Open paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

Game Creative Directors at Riot define and oversee the overall creative strategy for a product. You’ll create inspiring creative direction across experiences that genuinely surprise and delight our players. You ensure parity with product strategy and tie the product’s goals to the target audience. Creative direction is for the team; as the Creative Director acts as the intersection between aesthetics, design, story, and brand that evokes a visceral response in the user. You’ll represent the game at the IP strategy level and work with fellow Creative Directors to shape the future of the IP.

As Creative Director for Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game, you will report to the executive producer and will provide creative direction for the game. The Creative Director brings together, guides, and inspires a group of multi-discipline developers to create something from nothing. A creative director is responsible to ensure alignment and cohesion across the game. They’ll make sure all choices fit the feel of the game and bring their intended experience to players. 

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Executive Producer to ensure Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game's product strategy is interwoven with our creative approach and long-term vision
  • Partner with the Game Director to sculpt thematics that support the game experience
  • Articulate the intended emotional experience of all aspects of the game
  • Define an inspirational north star that empowers creatives to navigate the unknown and bring a unified vision to life.
  • Ability to integrate characters, factions, and lore into impactful gameplay
  • Collaborating on branding & marketing aesthetics, ensuring consistency across promotional materials and in-game assets.
  • Keeping up to speed on industry trends and how competitor games evolve their mechanics, aesthetics and business models to drive acquisition, fandom, and engagement.
  • Strong Stakeholder communication with the ability to align with executive teams, marketing, and key partners. 
  • Understanding of digital economies and player retention strategies.
  • Directly connecting with player communities to understand their needs. 
  • Role will require occasional travel internationally (Quarterly)

Required Qualifications

  • 13+ years experience total in game development, either digital or physical. 
  • Experience shipping physical products 
  • Proven ability to successfully partner with contractors, creative agencies, and manufacturers.
  • Proven ability to successfully collaborate with individual artists and art teams. 
  • Operated as a key creative decision-maker on multiple games 
  • Experience working with multiple disciplines, particularly game design, to deliver on a goal
  • An excellent communicator that inspires by infusing a pitch with emotional intent 

Desired Qualifications

  • Shipped 1+ title as Creative Director with art-driven acclaim (e.g., Best Visual Design, Art Direction awards).
  • Fluency in League of Legends’ lore
  • Background in illustration, concept art, or graphic design.
  • Passion for TCG/CCG aesthetics and mechanics (e.g., Magic: The Gathering, 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 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 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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