Principal UX Designer

As a Principal UX Designer working on Riot Client, you will set the experience design vision for our multi-game experiences across the Riot Ecosystem. Your work will include end-to-end experience design and advocating for player experiences and design opportunities that elegantly resolve valuable player journeys. You'll work from discovery to implementation; collaborating with designers, engineers, product managers, etc to create resonant, anticipatory, and relevant experiences for players. You are a visionary designer who will level up and inspire teams and disciplines across organizations. You are someone who is comfortable operating in the ambiguity of design opportunities, with a deep awareness of our players' needs, and can shape them into actionable pursuits by other designers. 

Player Platform is a product and service org that creates experiences to accelerate game teams; solving common problems that many game teams can benefit from. As a User Experience Designer on the team, you will be a central contributor to defining the team’s product and feature vision for our players, and trusted to design solutions that help players have a cohesive and complementary ecosystem experience with Riot owned channels and games. You will work closely with designers across the org and with game teams acting as a go to thought leader in the design space that is able to tame complexity and orchestrate against ambitious bets that are resonant to players. You will report to the Director, User Experience.

Responsibilities:

• Lead UX design and set the vision across Riot Owned Channels (Riot Client, Riot Mobile, Web). 
• Collaborate across the initiative to ensure high quality design can consistently be realised.
• Communicate your data-informed vision and design rationale, that has players at the heart of it, to stakeholders and team members in a compelling way.
• Deliver appropriate UX design artifacts for the team (e.g., strategy articulation, discovery/ research results, journey maps, Information Architectures (IAs), flows, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes) 
• Break down experiences thoughtfully for teams to ship value incrementally (from  Minimum Valuable Experience to Desired Experience), making intentional trade-offs that are grounded in a clear perspective that works towards the optimal player impact.
• Establish experiential principals that guides decision making and crafts thoughtful cohesion.
• Define key outcomes and metrics that help us understand how well our experiences are enhancing the player experience.
• Work with Design discipline leadership across Riot to establish best-practices, quality standards, and champion user-centered design methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years industry experience, having led significant portions of the UX of multiple shipped multiplatform online games as a service, or major releases of consumer-facing digital products.
• Experience setting product strategy and solving difficult UX problems by creating intuitive interfaces.
• Adept at UX prototyping, using interactive design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and prototyping tools.
• Comfortable planning and estimating UX effort for projects and programs.
• Comfortable switching between design strategy, micro- and macro-level interaction design, and design execution, and taking on roles outside of traditional design, including product management.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience designing interfaces on Mobile, PC, and Console, with strong understanding of interaction modalities across controller, keyboard, mouse, and touch.
• Experience designing tooling for publishing workflows.
• Experience designing UX for metasystems and/or Clients. 

We will review your work as part of the application process, so please provide a portfolio link or work samples with your application.

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 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.