Senior Art Director

Art Directors at Riot drive the quality and performance of their team, establishing direction and goals that provide clarity and focus. Your scope of responsibilities include leading with vision, strategic partnership across the game, a deep understanding of audience resonance, overall team culture and performance, growth of your direct reports, and directing your team on successful execution of your vision and strategy.

As Senior Art Director on VALORANT, you will own the art direction for the entire game, ensuring cohesion in style and quality across all of VALORANT’s sub and partner teams. You will partner closely with the Creative Director and game leadership to ensure that visual executions serve iconic, creative, and resonant experiences that amplify the competitive experience for players. You will report to the Senior Creative Director.

Responsibilities

• Steward VALORANT’s distinct visual style, continuing to evolve it to stay fresh whilst remaining rooted in its foundations
• Maintain strong attunement with the VALORANT player experience and global youth culture, ensuring that the visual identity of the game resonates with players
• Lead a strong collaborative culture across the art org that prizes design thinking, player empathy, and collective quality over personal ownership
• Foster a world-class art org that inspires artists passion & relentless curiosity in which they aspire to deliver the best work of their careers for millions of players around the world
• Serve as the art stakeholder for teams across the game, IP stakeholders and partner teams to ensure consistency of art expressions across game and media
• Partner with VALORANT’s game leadership team to help guide the strategic vision for the future growth of VALORANT, and be able to hold and drive a vision for how that manifests across art
• Work closely with Studio Creative on VALORANT visual development that expands the broader IP
• Produce and maintain artifacts that inform, align, and empower teams to successfully create in the VALORANT style and in accordance with our IP foundations

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