As a Game Design Manager you’ll be front and center in defining the direction of our game.
You’ll partner with leads from multiple disciplines to ensure that our game is the best it can be, leaving no conceptual stone unturned.
You’ll be a champion for design excellence, and level up those around you.
You’ll apply rigorous critical thinking and a strong dose of imagination to engineer the fun of thrilling in and out-of-game experiences.
You’ll work with every tool at hand and collaborate with multiple interdisciplinary teams to create player-focused designs that’ll delight millions around the world.
VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!) .
As a Game Design Manager for Modes working on the VALORANT team, you will help Riot craft systems that shape the future of VALORANT content.
You will mentor the team and provide design leadership across several features, modes, and systems for VALORANT.
You will report to the Game Director of the Project.
Responsibilities:
- Work with team leads to develop a vision for new and updated modes in VALORANT
- Ensure that VALORANT design teams are highly performing teams
- Anticipate player needs regarding modes and alternate play experiences
- 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 gameplay spaces
- Builds strong relationships with leadership from a range of disciplines to multiply their quality and output
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in Game Design role; experience as a game design owner of multiple large projects in parallel with successful delivery
- 1+ 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
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 mechanics solutions, and generate and identify an excellent solution
Our Perks:
We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available.
Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations.
Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.
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