Jobs at Riot Games

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Riot’s esports publishing platform. Lead global live operations, real-time data features, broadcast tooling, tournament services, authentication scaling, and esports data commercialization. Partner with engineering and technical teams on architecture, scalability, prioritization, and delivery while safeguarding 99.9% infrastructure reliability during major events. Translate customer and ecosystem needs into requirements, KPIs, OKRs, and shipped products.

Lead prop art creation and manage external art vendors for an unpublished R&D game. Create high-quality prop assets, define workflows and quality standards, prepare asset briefs, track deliverables, troubleshoot pipeline issues, mentor artists, and collaborate with Art Direction, Environment Art, and Production to scale outsourced content while preserving visual cohesion.

Design and optimize narrative delivery across gameplay and game systems for an unpublished R&D product. Prototype and validate player-facing experiences, collaborate with design, art, engineering, audio, VFX, UI, and production teams, and improve integrated content for pacing, clarity, immersion, and production viability. Develop scalable narrative presentation strategies and reusable implementation approaches while managing dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs.

Create and oversee high-quality promotional and trading card illustrations for Riftbound. Develop art briefs, guide external artists, provide craft feedback, uphold visual quality and League of Legends IP consistency, and ensure artwork supports gameplay clarity and print-production requirements. Collaborate with art direction, design, writing, animation, production, and development teams across multiple card sets.

Lead and manage a multi-disciplinary creative team for Wild Rift's cosmetic content and in-game art, while improving workflows and fostering team growth.

Lead end-to-end sponsorship sales and commercialization for Riot's esports events in Brazil/LATAM. Source, structure, and close high-value partnerships, align cross-functional teams, create premium sponsorship offerings, drive regional expansion and cross-border partner integration, and shape LATAM sponsorship strategy.

Lead VALORANT publishing strategy across Eastern European markets, translating global product priorities into locally relevant campaigns and go-to-market plans. Own regional budgets, optimize performance using market insights, and influence product direction through player advocacy. Coordinate publishing, esports, community, creative, and commercial teams while managing relationships with agencies, media, influencers, and regional partners. Drive player engagement and business results across campaigns, creator activations, esports integrations, and cultural initiatives.

Lead software quality assurance for an unpublished R&D game product by designing and executing test plans, assessing risks, managing defect data, creating coverage reports, investigating technical implementations, and coordinating remote testers. Collaborate with developers, artists, producers, and content creators across the software development lifecycle while independently solving complex quality problems and mentoring junior QA personnel.

Execute advanced visual design production for Wild Rift across visual identity, social assets, event materials, and global publishing campaigns. Apply brand guidelines, collaborate with motion, illustration, localization, and cross-functional teams, review outsourced work, and maintain scalable visual asset libraries and standardized production files.

Conduct complex game and portfolio analytics to assess product health, player behavior, and performance. Apply statistical modeling and machine learning, build scalable dashboards and datasets, partner with Data Engineering on production analytics, and deliver strategic recommendations to product leaders. Mentor analysts, improve reporting consistency, and lead cross-functional analytical workstreams across game design, engineering, and product teams.

Design large-scale, cross-team player experiences for League of Legends. Collaborate across functions to deliver research, journey maps, flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. Ensure experiential consistency, break features into incremental value, communicate data-informed design rationale, and help establish design best practices and quality standards.

Leads interaction and UX design for an unpublished game R&D product, establishing information architecture, interaction standards, reusable component libraries, usability testing, and cross-functional workflows. Identifies player experience risks through behavioral data and feedback, drives implementation quality, documents design methodology, and mentors junior designers. Requires extensive game UX experience, complete mobile game development and launch experience, and proficiency with Figma, Axure, and Unity.

Lead rendering engineer building engine and rendering systems for a new AAA MMO. Collaborate with art and design to implement, optimize, and tool rendering pipelines, improve performance, and resolve asset/pipeline issues across platforms.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop high-quality backend services, build scalable microservices, and collaborate with diverse teams to deliver reliable game solutions.

Lead a team of software engineers in developing and maintaining platform services for game content delivery and player experiences, ensuring high quality and technical health.

Lead a team of data engineers supporting VALORANT to build scalable data infrastructure, set technical direction, ensure data quality and compliance, partner with analytics/product teams, optimize costs, and establish engineering best practices and tooling across Riot.

Design, build, and optimize large-scale ETL pipelines and data models powering player and publishing insights. Architect high-performance data solutions, automate workflows, ensure data quality and compliance, mentor engineers, optimize costs and query performance, and drive tooling/standards for centralized analytics at scale.

Lead program operations for VALORANT Mobile by improving processes, alignment, and cross-functional collaboration. Drive greenlight process improvements, coordinate patches and major moments, manage risks and dependencies, and maintain trackers, planning rituals, and decision logs while partnering with Riot and external development partners.

Lead publishing product strategy for an unannounced game from early R&D through global launch and live operations. Define target audiences, player value, market opportunities, positioning, success metrics, and go-to-market plans. Partner with product, design, development, insights, publishing, and regional teams to validate hypotheses, guide roadmaps, align senior stakeholders, and ensure publishing readiness. Identify ecosystem, community, competitive, and regional opportunities while shaping long-term player engagement.

Lead VALORANT publishing strategy across multiple EMEA markets, translating global product priorities into locally relevant campaigns and go-to-market plans. Manage budgets, cross-functional teams, esports integrations, creator partnerships, community initiatives, and regional stakeholder relationships. Use player and market insights to influence product direction, optimize campaign performance, and drive engagement and business results.