Principal UX Designer, Riot Client

Lead UX design and set the vision across Riot Owned Channels, collaborating to ensure high-quality design. Establish experiential principles and define key outcomes to enhance player experiences.

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.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years industry experience, having led significant portions of the UX of multiple shipped multiplatform online games as a service, or major releases of consumer-facing digital products.
• Experience setting product strategy and solving difficult UX problems by creating intuitive interfaces.
• Adept at UX prototyping, using interactive design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and prototyping tools.
• Comfortable planning and estimating UX effort for projects and programs.
• Comfortable switching between design strategy, micro- and macro-level interaction design, and design execution, and taking on roles outside of traditional design, including product management.

Key Skills

• UX prototyping using Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and prototyping tools.
• Planning and estimating UX effort for projects and programs.
• Switching between design strategy, micro- and macro-level interaction design, and design execution.
• Taking on roles outside of traditional design, including product management.

Benefits

• Open paid time off policy.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children.
• 401k with company match.