Principal User Experience Designer, Riot Games

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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
• 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!

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