Senior Supervisor, Creative Direction – Wild Rift

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial players who consider that player-focused recreation growth can lead to nice video games. In 2009, Riot launched its debut title League of Legends to crucial and participant acclaim. As probably the most performed online game on the planet, over 100 million play each month. Players type the inspiration of our group and it’s for them that we proceed to evolve and enhance the League of Legends expertise.

We’re on the lookout for humble however bold, razor-sharp professionals who can educate us a factor or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you’re taking play severely; you’re enthusiastic about video games. We embrace those that see issues otherwise, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who’ve a wholesome disregard for constraints.

That’s the place you are available.

As the Creative Director for Wild Rift, you’re the main architect and public steward of the sport’s inventive soul. Your mission is to synthesize the outputs of Art, Audio, Narrative, and Visual Design right into a singular, world-class voice that defines the League of Legends expertise on cell.

You are a visionary who bridges the hole between high-level model aspiration and manufacturing actuality. By aligning inner Riot groups, Publishing, and world companions like Tencent, you make sure that each participant touchpoint—from the UI to the newest cinematic—feels cohesive, immersive, and unmistakably Wild Rift. You don’t simply handle a crew; you construct the “North Star” frameworks that empower a multi-disciplinary equipment to make quick, high-quality selections at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Define & Socialize the Vision: Author the “Creative Direction Artifacts” (Tone Maps, Pillar One-Pagers, and Visual Design Systems) that function the supply of reality for each inventive and non-creative stakeholders.
• Discipline Integration: Synthesize Art, Audio, Narrative, and UX right into a singular, world-class voice. You bridge the “language gap” between these specialists to make sure they work in live performance towards a unified participant expertise.
• The Creative “Connective Tissue”: Align the inventive imaginative and prescient with Tech, Production, and Publishing. You will contextualize technical or budgetary constraints (e.g., efficiency budgets on low-end units) and rework them into inventive alternatives that elevate the participant expertise.
• Global Co-Creation: Partner with Tencent and regional leads to make sure hyper-local authenticity (maps, skins, celebrations) whereas safeguarding the worldwide model lane.
• Strategic Altitude: Maintain efficient work-systems and rituals that present sufficient scaffolding for the crew to maneuver quick, whereas leaving ample room for particular person inventive interpretation and problem-solving.
• Systems-Oriented Leadership: Proven capability to maneuver past bespoke suggestions. You have a observe report of constructing scalable inventive “playbooks” and rituals that align disparate disciplines—Art, Tech, Production, and Publishing—behind a single North Star.
• Ecosystem Leadership: Collaborate with different Riot CDs to form the way forward for the League of Legends ecosystem, memorializing experiments and validating what works for the worldwide viewers.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of confirmed observe report of main huge, multi-disciplinary inventive groups inside gaming.
• 5+ years of confirmed expertise managing and mentoring numerous inventive crew members throughout Art, Audio, Narrative, and UX.
• You have a “future-facing” pulse on tradition (vogue, music, animation) and might anticipate participant traits earlier than they hit the mainstream.
• The capability to translate summary ideas into concrete “bumper-guardrails” and matrices that unlock crew velocity and high quality.
• Expert-level stakeholder administration; you may nudge robust, divergent opinions towards a shared consequence whereas remaining agency on the “world-class” bar.
• Experience navigating the nuances of worldwide IP, particularly in balancing western design sensibilities with the wants of a world, multi-cultural participant base.
• A deep understanding of the constraints of cell platforms and the power to search out the “creative throughline” between technical capabilities and aesthetic output.

Desired Qualifications:

• Genre affinity for video games within the cell free-to-play area, particularly MOBAs.
• Fluency in English.

For this function, you’ll discover success via craft consciousness, cultural empathy, and decision-making that places Wild Rift gamers first. If you care about dwell video games, crew well being, and visible excellence, this could possibly be the function for you.

Don’t overlook to incorporate a resume and canopy letter. We obtain numerous functions, however we’ll discover a enjoyable, well-written intro that reveals us you’re taking play severely.