Art Director - Unpublished R&D Product

Art Directors at Riot oversee the quality and management of a team with a focus on Mission, Direction, and Cohesion. Your scope of responsibilities covers a wide range of initiatives. These responsibilities include overall culture, performance, and growth of your direct reports, and gaining alignment with other several discipline leads.

As an Art Director, you will provide art direction for an unpublished R&D game. We are looking for an Art Director who can set a strategy, build a team, provide an inspired creative environment, and can deliver an art style for a new game. You’ll collaborate with the Executive Producer to create an immersive game experience for the intended audience. You will identify strategic art resource needs and promote hiring for all art roles on the team. As a part of the leadership team, you’ll develop strategies and eliminate obstacles with other leaders to achieve broader product goals.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and drive a vision that is inspired and aligned with the project goals
• Establish overall content quality standards
• Set product-wide art goals and timelines
• Collaborate with Executive Producer to ensure consistency between creative vision and art direction
• Be the voice for the artists at the executive levels of the team 
• Champion the development of efficient art pipelines and art within technical performance targets
• Champion healthy project management systems that best support the art discipline
• Provide an ongoing high level execution strategy that blends a mixture of inhouse and external art resources 
• Build, manage, lead, and mentor a team of artists

Required Qualifications: 

• 10+ years experience developing art in the games industry
• 4+ years of professional experience managing other game artists and art leaders
• Professional experience establishing creative vision and strategy 
• Deep knowledge of various art sub-disciplines 
• Experience developing a style and artistic vision, shepherding the vision through production and shipping, and directing an organization to execute on the style
• Experience developing games on PC and/or consoles
• Deep experience competitive PVP games

Desired Qualifications:

• Passion for competitive PVP games 
• Knowledge 3rd person action games
• Experience in managing a team through visual development of a new game
• A portfolio that backs up your ability to set a marketable artistic vision
• Knowledge with Unreal based game development

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 focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

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.