Game Creative Director - Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Riot Games seeks a Creative Director for Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game. You will lead creative strategy, collaborate with diverse teams, and ensure cohesive game experiences. Your role requires extensive experience in game development and the ability to inspire and guide multi-discipline creators.

Benefits

Open paid time off policy

Flexible work schedules

Medical, dental, and life insurance

401k with company match

Parental leave

Qualifications

• 13+ years experience in game development.
• Operated as a key creative decision-maker.
• Experience in shipping physical products.

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee the creative strategy for the game.
• Collaborate with the Executive Producer and Game Director.
• Articulate emotional experiences for players.

Skills

Game development

Creative direction

Stakeholder communication

Emotional storytelling

Job description

Game Creative Director - Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game

Game Creative Director - Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game

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Game Creative Directors at Riot define and oversee the overall creative strategy for a product. You’ll create inspiring creative direction across experiences that genuinely surprise and delight our players. You ensure parity with product strategy and tie the product’s goals to the target audience. Creative direction is for the team; as the Creative Director acts as the intersection between aesthetics, design, story, and brand that evokes a visceral response in the user. You’ll represent the game at the IP strategy level and work with fellow Creative Directors to shape the future of the IP.

Riftbound is the League of Legends Trading Card Game. As Creative Director for Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game, you will report to the executive producer and will provide creative direction for the game. The Creative Director brings together, guides, and inspires a group of multi-discipline developers to create something from nothing. A creative director is responsible to ensure alignment and cohesion across the game. They’ll make sure all choices fit the feel of the game and bring their intended experience to players.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Executive Producer to ensure Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game's product strategy is interwoven with our creative approach and long-term vision
• Partner with the Game Director to sculpt thematics that support the game experience
• Articulate the intended emotional experience of all aspects of the game
• Define an inspirational north star that empowers creatives to navigate the unknown and bring a unified vision to life.
• Ability to integrate characters, factions, and lore into impactful gameplay
• Collaborating on branding & marketing aesthetics, ensuring consistency across promotional materials and in-game assets.
• Keeping up to speed on industry trends and how competitor games evolve their mechanics, aesthetics and business models to drive acquisition, fandom, and engagement.
• Strong Stakeholder communication with the ability to align with executive teams, marketing, and key partners.
• Understanding of digital economies and player retention strategies.
• Directly connecting with player communities to understand their needs.
• Role will require occasional travel internationally (Quarterly)
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 13+ years experience total in game development, either digital or physical.
• Experience shipping physical products
• Proven ability to successfully partner with contractors, creative agencies, and manufacturers.
• Proven ability to successfully collaborate with individual artists and art teams.
• Operated as a key creative decision-maker on multiple games
• Experience working with multiple disciplines, particularly game design, to deliver on a goal
• An excellent communicator that inspires by infusing a pitch with emotional intent
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Shipped 1+ title as Creative Director with art-driven acclaim (e.g., Best Visual Design, Art Direction awards).
• Fluency in League of Legends’ lore
• Background in illustration, concept art, or graphic design.
• Passion for TCG/CCG aesthetics and mechanics (e.g., Magic: The Gathering, Legends of Runeterra).
  
  

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 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.

Duties

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer Games, Software Development, and Technology, Information and Internet

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