Game Designer III - Cards, Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game

As a Game Designer at Riot, you’ll work directly with the TCG design and narrative teams to create consistent, high-quality content for our players. You’ll be responsible for your deliverables, both in terms of direction/alignment and scheduling, and also ensuring that they meet the overall discipline quality bar and specific product needs. You’ll lean on years of experience to help build world-class rules documents, card templating, flavor text, and names, in addition to working directly as a game designer on card set teams. You’ll use your craft expertise to enrich the players’ experience of the gameplay and lore of the League of Legends TCG.

As a Game Designer (TCG Editor) on the Riftbound team, you will report to the Game Director. You will work closely with card designers and narrative designers, guiding them through creating card text that is clear, correct, consistent, and concise. You will design and improve the gameplay experience through the lens of content: cards. You will work closely with other team Product Leads and creatives to stay aligned on vision and priorities and balance the requirements of clarity to players and functionality within rules. You will write and revise rules documents to support new gameplay and maintain standards for rules, templating, and creative elements. You will proactively seek opportunities for collaboration, and quickly mediate and resolve any disagreements or misalignments related to card function or creative direction. You will also work closely with the team to strengthen our workflow, preventing opportunities for errors and mistakes.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the relevant audiences for the game, and from this, calibrate your design expertise to reflect appropriate taste for these audiences
• Articulate and consider a scope and depth of possible solutions, including possible effects, and collaboratively reach the best solution
• Discover solutions conceptually through rapid prototyping
• Implement card content and iterate on it through playtesting
• Confirm and align the intended gameplay function and narrative goals of products, in collaboration with the appropriate stakeholder/s
• Facilitate and ensure the execution of rules and narrative craft to the agreed direction, quality standards, and schedule
• Take ultimate responsibility for the handoff of error-free card text to localization, typesetting, and printers
• Manage and communicate progress with product teams
• Maintain good working relationships with product teams, stakeholders, and Localization partners, and actively drive improvements to Riot Games’ multi-language publishing processes
• Assist in the ongoing development of process documentation, rules documents, templating standards, and style guides

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional editing experience
• 4+ years experience as a professional game designer
• Broad mechanics and content design ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Extensive knowledge and experience of TCGs
• Experience delivering quality work in partnership with other creative disciplines
• Experience creating content for release in multiple languages
• Experience maintaining living documents laying out processes and standards

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with the League of Legends intellectual property and its various expressions, including games
• Experience with TCG editing, game rules editing, or other technical editing disciplines
• Experience working with or playing PvP strategy games
• Experience developing a competitive or multiplayer game

As part of the application process, candidates will be expected to perform a brief editing test.

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:

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.

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.