Senior Tools & Pipeline Technical Artist - Central Creative

Riot Games • Los Angeles, CA

9h

About The Position

As part of the Technical Art Team, you will lay the pipelines and foundation to support our content and development goals to deliver the game to players. You will employ your expert-level knowledge of tech art tools and problem-solving skills to drive best practices and processes for pipelines and workflow, rigs and animation, cinematic camera-work and all aspects of asset production - leading by example by contributing at a hands-on level.
As a Senior Tools & Pipeline Technical Artist on Central Creative, you will play a critical role in shaping Riot’s art content creation pipelines by deeply understanding creator workflows across projects and identifying opportunities to adopt, evolve, and develop pipeline solutions that can be shared across the company. You will partner closely with artists, technical artists, and engineers to evaluate existing tools and pipelines, identify shared pain points and redundancies, and determine when established solutions can be adopted or extended versus when new tools or workflows need to be developed. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, driving research, implementation, and iteration on both existing and newly developed solutions that improve creator efficiency, quality, and sustainability. Over time, you will grow into a trusted subject matter expert on Riot’s art pipelines, influencing standards, best practices, and long-term technical direction across projects. You'll also support Riot’s exploration of AI-assisted content creation, helping prototype, validate, and guide workflows where AI meaningfully improves creator outcomes in production environments. You will report directly to the Technical Art Director.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience as a Technical Artist, Tools-focused Technical Artist, or similar role
• Strong hands-on experience with modern DCC tools and game engines
• Proven experience building and maintaining tools or pipelines used in production at scale
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous problem spaces and drive solutions to completion
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical disciplines
• Experience collaborating with large, cross-disciplinary game development teams
• Minimum of 8 years development experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience experimenting with or deploying AI-assisted content generation in production workflows
• Deep understanding of end-to-end art pipelines across multiple asset types or disciplines
• Experience influencing pipeline standards or best practices beyond a single team
• Strong product sense and pragmatism when balancing creator needs, technical constraints, and maintainability

Responsibilities

• Partner with artists, technical artists, and engineers to deeply understand content creation workflows across multiple projects
• Evaluate existing tools and pipelines across Riot to identify opportunities for adoption, consolidation, and reuse
• Extend, adapt, and support proven pipeline solutions for broader use where appropriate
• Design, implement, and own new tools and pipeline solutions when existing approaches do not meet creator needs
• Identify and reduce redundant or fragmented pipeline efforts by promoting shared systems and workflows
• Reason holistically about end-to-end art pipelines and evaluate tradeoffs across tools, processes, and technologies
• Independently drive pipeline research, targeted development efforts, and AI experimentation as needed
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure shared solutions are practical, reliable, and aligned with real production needs
• Contribute to defining pipeline standards, best practices, and long-term technical direction for Central Creative
• Document tools and workflows and support adoption through clear communication and collaboration

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed