Visual Designer, Heartbeats - VALORANT

As a Visual Design Artist at Riot, you will support the Heartbeats Team in shipping skins, battlepasses, and more to players. The Visual Designer seeks to craft the best player experiences through their knowledge of graphic design, interactivity, layout, typography, color theory, illustration, and a high degree of communication and collaboration. As a member of the team, you will help your fellow team members to continue to meet and raise the quality bar at the studio.

VALORANT is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As a Visual Designer on the VALORANT team, you will assist in the production of Premium Content for Riot's brand new title. You will keep the players' experience in mind as you work with diverse teams to help build foundational ideas and concepts for VALORANT's upcoming 3D content. You will work collaboratively with designers, writers, and producers to bring new worlds to life.

Responsibilities:

• Production design work with an emphasis on layout/hierarchy
• Icon design and motion graphics work to support premium content
• Integration of promotional banner assets
• Alteration of assets to create custom backgrounds for assets delivered by partners as needed to meet quality bar and adhere to technical standards
• Assist in making minor art adjustments based off of feedback from OS Supervisors or Art Leads for assets both in-game and in store
• Work with QA and Art Teams to understand any bugs related to content, and work with the team to fix them
• Work with the Store team to ensure all assets appear correctly in the client
• Collaborate with other artists in various sub-disciplines as needed

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator
• Familiarity with Google Suite
• Experience working and collaborating with with developers in various disciplines
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Unreal Engine (blueprints) and scripting
• Experience with Figma
• Familiarity with Jira a plus
• Experience working with external partners
• Familiar with the basic outsource workflow
• Experience with iconography
• Familiarity with VALORANT/FPS genre cosmetics

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 portfolio, 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 has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to 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.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $113,300.00 - $158,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
• (Bellevue only) Base salary range between $113,300.00 - $158,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

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, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).