Senior Manager, Art Management - Teamfight Tactics

5 Months ago • 4-8 Years • Art

Job Summary

Job Description

As Senior Art Manager for Teamfight Tactics, you'll manage Riot leads, fostering a positive and productive team culture. Responsibilities include career development for your reports, ensuring team delivery and performance, coordinating with internal and external partners, and hiring top-tier talent. You will drive high expectations and maintain a healthy work culture. Experience in game development, people management, and conflict resolution is crucial. The role requires strong communication, leadership and problem-solving skills, focusing on outcome-oriented performance management.
Must have:
  • People management & growth focus
  • Team performance management expertise
  • Healthy culture creation & maintenance
  • Strong communication & goal setting
  • High empathy & conflict resolution skills
  • Outcome-oriented approach
Good to have:
  • Art directing across disciplines
  • Production planning & scheduling experience
  • Team capacity prediction
  • Outsourcing management experience
  • Mobile game development experience
  • Auto-Chess or similar game experience
  • Fluency in English and Mandarin
Perks:
  • Full relocation support
  • Full health insurance
  • Open paid time off
  • Retirement benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Disability benefits
  • Play Fund
  • Matching non-profit donations

Job Details

Established in 2020, Riot Singapore Studio has been expanding our footprint in Asia and accelerating our talent growth to develop games that deliver great experiences to our players. Our mission is to “scale Riot’s games to hyper-serve players.”

We partner with our LA headquarters on game development for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, VALORANT and 2XKO. The Singapore Studio is seeking talented, passionate craft experts with backgrounds in all areas of game development to build games that make it better to be a player. 

We’re focused on working together to promote individual autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and inclusivity, so everyone can be their best while we boldly pursue games.

That's where you come in.

As the Senior Art Manager for the Teamfight Tactics team, you will leverage your expertise in performance and people management, cultivating strong culture and forming a healthy, vibrant, and motivated environment for the art team to unleash their creativity. 

With your exceptional skills in organizational management and career coaching, you will be the person to directly manage Riot craft leads on TFT’s Cosmetic production, grow their competence, enhance their capabilities, and support them in building robust teams. 

You will cooperate with producers from both Riot internal team and external partners, by building solid relationships and establishing effective coordination, to pave a great foundation for facilitating art team’s success. You will establish clear expectations, drive performance, and effectively manage stakeholder relationships to ensure satisfaction across all areas.

Responsibilities: 

Manage Riot leads and setting them up to success, unleashing the team’s potential

  • Responsible for your reports’ career development.
  • Identify growth opportunities of each individual, define strategy to enlarge and enrich their competence and impact.
  • Ensure they’re properly engaged and have all the information they need to succeed.
  • Mentor Riot leads with the best knowledge, so that they can further unleash the true potential of their own teams.

Responsible for the overall outcome of your team, their delivery and performance

  • Drive and maintain a healthy and highly engaged work culture in your team.
  • Challenge convention and push for high expectations in your team.
  • Coordinate with other Rioters in Singapore to make sure product goals are fulfilled and working practices are appropriate.

Support and enable the large and ever growing teams in Riot and external vendors

  • Hire AAA Riot candidates globally, by coordinating with the Art Director and Talent team.
  • Enabling your reports build a solid growth strategy for their own teams.
  • Supporting your reports to hire great talents to their teams.

Required Qualifications:

  • Motivated by people management, focus on people’s growth and enabling their success.
  • Deft skill on team performance management, especially being able to manage underperformers effectively.
  • Understanding what a healthy culture and team looks like, has a mature framework about its fundamentals and be able to set vision and strategy to maintain and improve the culture.
  • Articulate, be able to communicate abstract/complicated ideas and clear goals, in English.
  • Having solid self-awareness and high empathy, is people focused.
  • Knowing how to effectively navigate through murky situations while being optimistic.
  • Outcome rather than craft/process focused, with attention to detail, hold self and work to high standards
  • Growth minded

Desired Qualifications:

  • Understanding art directing across different disciplines in the game industry.
  • Able to chime in to help the team resolve conflicts on ideas or executions if necessary.
  • Knowing how a healthy production candace should look like, having experience in collaborating with development managers or producers on content planning and schedule maintenance.
  • Knowing how to conclude and predict team capacity insight.
  • 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.
  • Fluent in both English and Mandarin
  • AAA Feature/Game experience
  • World class management/mentorship skills
  • Teamfight Tactics community connections/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!

Similar Jobs

Nasdaq - Head of Strategic Talent Planning

Nasdaq

New York, New York, United States (Hybrid)
2 Weeks ago
Next Level Business Services - Senior Developer

Next Level Business Services

Bethpage, New York, United States (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Diligent Corporation - Customer Success Manager (12 Month FTC)

Diligent Corporation

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
bytedance - Backend Software Engineer

bytedance

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Findhelp - Manager, Software Engineering

Findhelp

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Gameloft - Studio Art Director

Gameloft

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
Xentrix studios - Compositing – Junior Artist

Xentrix studios

India (On-Site)
9 Months ago
AMC Studio - Lead Game Artist / Art Director

AMC Studio

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
hogarth - Senior Photoshop Artist

hogarth

Sunnyvale, California, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
hogarth - Art Director (Freelance)

hogarth

Vietnam (On-Site)
1 Week ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Cognite - Senior Implementation Project Manager

Cognite

Phoenix, Arizona, United States (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
whoop - Overnight Operations Manager

whoop

Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
aspyr - Associate 2 Game Producer

aspyr

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
bytedance - Business Development Manager

bytedance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Polygon Labs - Tax Director (Crypto & Digital Assets)

Polygon Labs

United States (Remote)
4 Months ago
Capgemini - Business Solution Designer

Capgemini

Kolkata, West Bengal, India (On-Site)
3 Months ago
London stock Exchange - Sr. Product Manager – Market Data / Exchange Product Manager

London stock Exchange

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
PwC - Associate - D&A - GDC

PwC

Kolkata, West Bengal, India (On-Site)
10 Months ago
Salesforce - Senior Director, Customer Success Management

Salesforce

Chicago, Illinois, United States (On-Site)
1 Year ago
Help Scout - Customer Enablement Lead

Help Scout

Boston, Massachusetts, United States (Remote)
3 Weeks ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Singapore

HoYoverse - Data Analyst - Honkai: Star Rail - Fresh Grad

HoYoverse

Singapore, Singapore (On-Site)
3 Months ago
IGG - Senior Game Designer

IGG

Singapore (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Tencent - Tencent Cloud - Senior Cloud Architect (R&D & Solution Design)

Tencent

Singapore (On-Site)
8 Months ago
Coupa - Senior Manager, Sales Strategy & Field Operations

Coupa

Singapore (Remote)
1 Month ago
PwC - Functional Data Architect

PwC

Singapore (On-Site)
10 Months ago
bytedance - Android Software Engineer, Flow

bytedance

Singapore (On-Site)
9 Months ago
HoYoverse - Product Manager, AI-Powered Services

HoYoverse

Singapore, Singapore (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Tencent - Senior Big Data Platform SRE Engineer

Tencent

Singapore (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
PwC - Event Management Consultant

PwC

Singapore (On-Site)
2 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Art Jobs

Spyke Games - Illustrator

Spyke Games

İstanbul, Türkiye (On-Site)
11 Months ago
Trailer park group - Junior Art Director

Trailer park group

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
Epic Games - Art Director (Rocket League)

Epic Games

(On-Site)
3 Months ago
Riot Games - Associate Art Director - VALORANT, Core Game

Riot Games

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
11 Months ago
Ubisoft - Tools & Tech Art Programmer

Ubisoft

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Bitpet - ART DIRECTOR (CONTRACT)

Bitpet

Norway (Remote)
2 Months ago
playrix  - Art Director

playrix

Serbia (Remote)
9 Months ago
flying wild hog - Senior Material Artist

flying wild hog

(Remote)
5 Months ago
Nintendo - Assistant Art Director

Nintendo

Redmond, Washington, United States (Hybrid)
1 Year ago
Xentrix studios - Modeling – Senior Artist

Xentrix studios

India (On-Site)
9 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)

Singapore (On-Site)

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)

Shanghai, China (On-Site)

Shanghai, China (On-Site)

Singapore (On-Site)

Shanghai, China (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Riot Games

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug