Senior VFX Artist (Unpublished R&D)

Company

Riot Games develops player-focused video games, including League of Legends, and builds experiences for a global gaming community.

What you will do

• Establish and improve VFX visual standards, production guidelines, and quality goals with VFX and art leadership.
• Lead early visual exploration covering timing, color, composition, motion, layering, and readability.
• Create and implement real-time VFX in Unreal Engine from prototyping through final iteration.
• Explore new techniques, workflows, and tools to improve visual quality and production efficiency.
• Collaborate with design, animation, technical art, engineering, narrative, and external partners to support gameplay and project goals.
• Provide actionable feedback, mentor artists and partners, and support performance, asset standards, and runtime stability.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in game VFX or real-time visual effects, including full game projects.
• Strong command of VFX and art fundamentals, including timing, rhythm, color, composition, motion, layering, materials, and visual readability.
• Experience with Unreal Engine and real-time VFX production workflows.
• Ability to translate creative goals into visual solutions, production standards, and actionable feedback.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills across disciplines, cultures, and regions.
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Niagara or comparable real-time VFX tools.
• Experience establishing VFX guidelines, quality standards, or workflows from the ground up.
• Experience managing external partners, mentoring teams, or working with distributed teams.
• Familiarity with Houdini, Substance, Photoshop, Maya, Blender, or similar tools.
• Fluency in English.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a cross-functional real-time VFX team on an unpublished R&D product.
• Collaborate with internal disciplines and external partners to shape the project's VFX quality bar.
• Contribute to team workflows, training materials, and shared knowledge.
• Portfolio or demo reel required; some candidates may be asked to complete an art test.