Principal UX Designer, Riot Client

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.

Responsibilities :

• 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.

Required Qualifications :

Desired Qualifications :

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

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!

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 benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first . That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you're working directly on a new player-facing experience or you're supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we're better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we're looking forward to your application.

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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories :

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.