Principal User Experience Designer

10 Months ago • 6-8 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Principal User Experience Designer on League of Legends, you will lead design efforts in a high-impact, high-complexity product space, tackling ambiguous and challenging problems. You will work on UX designs across multiple workstreams, focusing on the interaction design and player flows for these areas. You will communicate your data-informed vision and design rationale to the team and stakeholders. You will break down experiences thoughtfully for teams to ship value incrementally, making appropriate trade-offs between features, player needs, and scope. You will also establish experiential quality metrics and interaction consistency across player-facing systems.
Must have:
  • 6+ years industry experience in UX design
  • Experience with UI prototyping tools
  • Experience designing in-game or around-game UX systems
Good to have:
  • 8+ years industry experience in UX
  • Experience working in a lead UX role
  • Experience with meta-game design
Perks:
  • Work/life balance with open paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

Riot’s mission is to put players at the center of everything we do. We do this by continuing to evolve and deliver new experiences to players with games like League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot is also expanding into the world of music/multimedia with the release of our animated series Arcane and music from K/DA and True Damage. In short - it’s an exciting time to be a Rioter.

As a Principal User Experience Designer on League of Legends, you’ll lead design efforts in a high-impact, high-complexity product space, tackling ambiguous and challenging problems. . Your work will span end-to-end experience design, shaping multiple interconnected features—often across teams—to elevate the player experience. From vision and concepting to final implementation, you’ll drive design excellence while collaborating closely with your fellow designers and cross-discipline partners.You will report to the Design Lead of the project..

Responsibilities:

  • Work on UX designs across multiple workstreams, focusing on the interaction design and player flows for these areas
  • Deliver appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g., Strategy articulation, discovery / research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, mockups and/or prototypes)
  • Communicate your data-informed vision and design rationale to the team and stakeholders.
  • Break down experiences thoughtfully for teams to ship value incrementally (i.e., Minimum loveable experience), making appropriate trade-offs between features, player needs, and scope
  • Establish experiential quality metrics and interaction consistency across player-facing systems

Required Qualifications:

  • 6+ years industry experience, having led significant portions of the UX for at least one shipped AAA game title or major release of a consumer-facing digital product
  • Understanding of different game patterns across action, strategy, and RPG genres
  • Experience with UI prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD
  • Experience designing in-game or around-game UX systems
  • Ability to plan and estimate UX efforts for projects

Desired Qualifications:

  • 8+ years industry experience, having led significant portions of the UX for at least one shipped AAA game title or major release of a consumer-facing digital product
  • Experience working in a lead UX role.
  • Experience with meta-game design, such as progression, competitive, and monetization systems.

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 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. 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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