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    Senior Manager, Game Design - Los Angeles, United States - Riot Games

    Riot Games
    Riot Games Los Angeles, United States

    4 weeks ago

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    Description

    Responsibilities:

  • Work with team leads to develop a vision for new and updated Metasystems in VALORANT
  • Ensure that VALORANT design teams are highly performing teams
  • Anticipate player needs regarding ranked, progression, and social systems
  • Ensure execution in gameplay and delivery schedule for a range of projects in flight from early concept to final polish
  • Manage and coach designers across the team
  • Influence senior leadership frequently regarding product direction and strategy, both regarding projects and related work (e.g. events, etc...)
  • Build positive relationships across other teams at Riot in shared design spaces
  • Builds strong relationships with leadership from a range of disciplines to multiply their quality and output

    • Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ years experience in Game Design role; experience as a game design owner of multiple large projects in parallel with successful delivery
  • 2+ years people management experience; experience with mentorship of other designers leading to a promotion or substantial positive improvements in their work
  • Experience creating systemic change to a design team's process or principles to improve output significantly across the team
  • Experience communicating and expressing complex and nuanced designs in simple ways
  • Leadership experience resolving conflict, and when needed offering difficult feedback with respect
  • Robust understanding of player motivations and reward systems

    • Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience working as a developer on an FPS title.
  • Strong understanding Tactical FPS principles and can apply them effectively
  • Can quickly produce a wide breadth of systemic solutions, and generate and identify an excellent solution
  • Experience developing on multiple platforms, PC, Mobile, and Console.

    • For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you

    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 for more information.

  • (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $196, $275,200.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
  • (Bellevue only) Base salary range between $196, $275,200.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
    • 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, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC
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