Senior User Experience Designer, Riot Games

• 5+ years experience designing digital experiences, products, and platforms as a User Experience Designer or Interaction Designer
• Proficient with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch or other industry-standard design and prototyping tools
• Experience designing and releasing consumer web experiences (responsive desktop + mobile)
• A professional portfolio with examples of your past work
• 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!

Desirable

• As UX Designers at Riot, we are responsible for design work in high-scope product areas that are complex and ambiguous
• Our work includes end-to-end experience design for both players and internal customers, often spanning multiple features and teams
• We work from concept through development, participate in agile product development, and partner closely with Visual Design, Research, Product, and Engineering to achieve our goals
• As a Senior User Experience Designer on the Publishing Platform Esports team, you’ll design and deliver core esports experiences that connect players and fans to Riot’s competitive ecosystem
• You will focus on end-to-end UX for Riot’s esports owned-and-operated sites, as well as how esports content and features are experienced across the broader Riot ecosystem.In this role, you’ll be responsible for designing scalable, high-impact fan experiences such as Pick’Em and Crystal Ball across all Riot esports
• You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Visual Design to translate complex requirements into clear, intuitive experiences that support both near-term product delivery and long-term ecosystem growth
• Leading UX design across multiple fan-focused workstreams, focusing on user flows and interaction design
• Synthesizing Riot’s existing body of player knowledge and insights from Design, Research, and customer support to shape experience principles, define opportunity spaces, and guide product investment
• Mentoring early career designers as an active member of Riot UX
• Partnering with Research to plan and execute customer outreach, or orchestrating your own customer outreach activities
• Delivering appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g. strategy, research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, and/or prototypes)
• Communicating data-informed vision and design rationale to drive shared alignment and collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Actively participating in the Riot UX community, seeking and providing feedback on your work and processes

• We will review case studies of your past work as a part of the application process, so please provide a portfolio link or PDF (as a cover letter) with your application