Senior Manager, Art Direction - Teamfight Tactics

8 Months ago • All levels • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

Senior Art Director for Teamfight Tactics, driving creative strategy for cosmetic art production, leading a team, and ensuring content aligns with product objectives.
Must have:
  • Art Production Pipeline
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Creative Direction
  • Unreal Engine
Good to have:
  • Content Planning
  • Video Game Experience
  • Low Hardware Requirements
  • Outsourcing Experience
Perks:
  • Relocation Support
  • Health Insurance

Job Details

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played PC game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That's where you come in.

Responsibilities:

Driving creative strategy for TFT Cosmetic art production by coordinating with Delivery Manager

    • Identifying improvable creative opportunities, forming effective or innovative solutions for live contents.
    • Leading team to implement better practices to improve art quality and efficiency.
    • Facilitating the process of enabling R&D contents to become evergreen art production, removing creative blockers for the team.

Managing relationships across teams

    • Setting up and managing a trusted relationship with stakeholders on all sides.
    • Engaging with different parties effectively for improving collaboration in a co-dev environment.

Being responsible for the overall outcome from the team on art production

    • Overseeing the entire art production from beginning to end, across all types of TFT Cosmetic contents.
    • Ensuring content’s creative direction is aligned with product objectives.
    • Coordinating craft leads to review submitted art assets.
    • Coordinating with Develop managers to ensure art delivery is in a timely fashion.
    • Enabling a cohesive experience is delivered from the work created by team
    • Transferring creative vision to digestible and actionable items for the art team.

Required Qualifications:

  • Very experienced with the entire art production pipeline, knowing the dependencies and how every discipline coordinates with each other.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skill, being able to effectively navigate through vague situations.
  • Understanding people management fundamentals and is able to chime in to help the team resolve conflicts on ideas or executions if necessary.
  • Motivated by art directing and the delivered overall creative experience.
  • Deft skill on translating vague creative ideas to digestible information and actionable items.
  • Understanding what a healthy art production should look like, is able to identify problems and improve its process and practices.
  • Is articulate and a good communicator. Be able to communicate abstract / complicated ideas and clear goals, in English.
  • Creativity / outcome focused, with attention to detail, hold self and work to high standards.
  • Knowing how to empower craft leads while keeping the ultimate accountability for all deliveries.
  • Is knowledgeable about Unreal Engine.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Having experience in collaborating with development managers or producers on content planning and schedule maintenance.
  • Experience working on video games. Bonus points for:
    • Working with wonky tech
    • Working on games with low hardware requirements e.g. mobile
    • Working on Auto-Chess or similar
    • Outsourcing experience
  • Broad experience, working production end to end.

Good to have Qualifications:

  • Fluent in both English and Mandarin
  • AAA Feature/Game experience
  • World class directing or management skills
  • Teamfight Tactics community connections and knowledge

Our Perks:

  • Full relocation support
  • Full health insurance for you, your spouse, and children
  • Open paid time off
  • Retirement benefits with company matching
  • Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability
  • Play Fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games
  • We will double down on your donations of time and money to non-profits

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!

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