User Experience Designer - Wild Rift (Contract)

Riot Games; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a UX Designer for Wild Rift to shape the UX of in-game events and Around Game experiences. You will translate patch goals into engaging player experiences and improve core gameplay flows, working across teams to ensure cohesive design quality.

You will work with minimal oversight on defined tasks, advocate for the player experience, and collaborate with partners across international teams to align on direction and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing digital experiences, products, and platforms as a User Experience Designer or Interaction Designer.
• Experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, or other industry design and prototyping tools.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to align partners on goals, explain tradeoffs, and surface misalignment early.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end UX design for in-game events, partnering with the Live-Experience team to translate patch and product goals into clear player experience targets and support cross-functional delivery through launch.
• Design and improve selected Around Game systems, especially experiences connected to core gameplay and primary player flows, ensuring experiential quality and consistency across features end-to-end.
• Use competitive analysis and user research to identify player needs, UX opportunities, and product improvement directions; communicate your data-informed vision and design rationale to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Explore and apply AI tools to improve research synthesis, design exploration, prototyping, and documentation while validating outputs and following data security and confidentiality requirements.

Skills

UX design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Prototyping

Education

BA/BS in HCI or related

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Job description

As UX Designers at Riot, we are responsible for design work in high-scope product areas that are complex and ambiguous. Our work includes end-to-end experience design. The spaces will generally encompass multiple features and span across teams. We work from concept through development and collaborate with other designers to achieve our goals.

As a UX Designer on Wild Rift, you will be responsible for the UX design of in-game events and parts of the Around Game player experience. You will help turn patch and product goals into clear, engaging, and shippable player experiences. You will also improve selected Around Game systems, with particular attention to core gameplay and primary player flows.

You will work self-directed with minimal oversight on known tasks, make local product decisions within your space, and begin to participate in product direction. You will advocate for the player experience while accounting for the needs of multiple audiences and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end UX design for in-game events, partnering with the Live-Experience team to translate patch and product goals into clear player experience targets and support cross-functional delivery through launch.
• Design and improve selected Around Game systems, especially experiences connected to core gameplay and primary player flows, ensuring experiential quality and consistency across features end-to-end.
• Use competitive analysis and user research to identify player needs, UX opportunities, and product improvement directions; communicate your data-informed vision and design rationale to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Explore and apply AI tools to improve research synthesis, design exploration, prototyping, and documentation while validating outputs and following data security and confidentiality requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing digital experiences, products, and platforms as a User Experience Designer or Interaction Designer.
• Experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, or other industry design and prototyping tools.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to align partners on goals, explain tradeoffs, and surface misalignment early.

Desired Qualifications

• A BA/BS degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction/Interface Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with or strong interest in mobile games, live-service products, or the MOBA genre (especially League of Legends IP).
• Experience collaborating with international, cross-cultural, or external partner teams.
• Optional: An eagerness to explore and apply emerging technologies (like AI tools) to enhance design workflows.

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