Senior Game Designer

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Riot Games Full time

Responsibilities:
Design champion kits with new cards, powers, items, relics, and constellations that excite players.
Design content to challenge these champions like adventures, event mechanics, and quests.
Create production ready implementations of your designs through python scripting.
Work collaboratively with a tight interdisciplinary team to implement content on a live service cadence.
Provide high-quality feedback to peers and help uplevel content quality across the team.
Execute on design goals within defined frameworks, adapting to constraints while maintaining player-centric outcomes.
Surface gaps in tools, workflows, or documentation, and propose actionable improvements.
Collaborate with engineering, product, and art partners to align on design requirements and implementation constraints.
Required Qualifications: 5+ years of professional experience in game design on at least one live service game.
Demonstrated ability to execute within established design structures and contribute meaningfully to ongoing live operations.
Operates with a high degree of autonomy, while staying aligned with design direction set by leads.
Thrives in small team environments, creating high quality player experiences from limited resources.
Strong implementation skills, able to prototype and build content with sustainable, production-ready execution.
Exceptional clarity in communication, with a strong ability to convey concepts to remote and interdisciplinary teammates.
Desired Qualifications: Deep player experience with strategy or card games, especially Legends of Runeterra or other deckbuilding roguelikes.
Experience designing for hero collector or strategy mobile games.
Experience mentoring or providing design process feedback.
Experience with developing games in Unity.
Experience with scripting languages, preferably Python.
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players.
We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games.
If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you
Our Perks:
At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle.
We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks).
And that's not all we offer, there's also: Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
Employee Assistance Program
Wellness fund
Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
Learning and Development opportunities Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the and .
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 and our ongoing work to build the .

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