Senior Visual Designer

Riot Games • Mercer Island, WA

4d

About The Position

As a Senior Visual Designer you will report to the Director, Marketing Creative Direction and will be responsible for leading visual design on the brand development and creative execution of marketing campaigns. You will be conceptualizing and executing visual assets and deliverables that support a wide variety of brand moments across all player touchpoints including branding, social media, key art, game trailers, and live events. At a craft level you will lead and support the Game Publishing team, to which you are assigned, collaborating with individual contributors from other cross-disciplines to align on project goals, advocate for craft excellence and present creative solutions to briefs while ensuring brand and creative consistency through the creation and enforcement of brand guidelines .
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 past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a visual designer and/or art director in games, entertainment, tech, or advertising.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Miro, and presentation tools
• Proven record of outstanding craft skills in branding, typography, visual design systems, motion graphics and brand guidelines
• Expert knowledge of illustration, animation, and general creative development process for art
• Experience and curiosity around creative ideation beyond executional visual design
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, providing rationale and strategy to back creative decision making.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of 3d art pipelines (posing, lighting compositing, etc)
• Experience owning projects end-to-end
• Video Editorial and gameplay capture for game trailers and social media
• Able to perform at several altitudes, going from high level direction to hands-on individual contributor craft work
• Experience or passion for the games industry, entertainment, or youth-culture-driven brands

Responsibilities

• Perform expert, hands-on Visual Design duties while simultaneously driving the art direction (high level artistic vision, artist management) of branding and marketing work.
• Drive and maintain the holistic visual identity for the publishing campaigns, moments, seasons and ensure that internal and external partners consistently adhere to brand guidelines and established visual identity
• Lead and manage relationships with external art vendors, design studios, and creative agencies
• Determine art resources, skills and timing needed to achieve positive campaign outcomes
• Review and deliver clear visual feedback that elevates artists and vendors in order to maintain high quality and consistency throughout multiple campaigns deliverables
• With the alignment from the Creative Director, establish the marketing art style, tone, and craft tactics for multiple features of various campaigns while responding to strategic needs
• Collaborate efficiently and effectively with a multi-disciplinary team providing creative input and feedback: Motion Graphic, illustration, Creative Direction, Gameplay Capture, and Animation

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.
• Check out our benefits pages for more information.

What This Job Offers

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