Senior Technical Game Designer (Unpublished R&D)

Company

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

What you will do

• Design, prototype, implement, and iterate on game features and supporting systems across multiple areas of game design.
• Build designer-facing tools, workflows, debugging capabilities, and validation processes that improve design quality and velocity.
• Own technically complex design features from initial framing through implementation, testing, refinement, and delivery.
• Partner with design and product leadership to explore ambiguous problem spaces and turn ideas into playable prototypes.
• Evaluate design and technical solutions by communicating player impact, trade-offs, risks, scope, and maintenance considerations.
• Identify constraints and dependencies early, translate them into design decisions, and establish reusable implementation patterns and quality standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional game design experience, including 3+ years of professional technical game design or engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in one or more technically demanding game-design domains.
• Experience owning and delivering technically complex game features from concept through playable implementation.
• Strong game design fundamentals and the ability to connect technical decisions to player experience and product goals.
• Hands-on experience prototyping, implementing, and debugging gameplay in a modern game engine.
• Proficiency with visual scripting, text-based scripting, programming, or other technical content-authoring approaches.
• Ability to reason about system architecture, data structures, performance, testing, maintainability, and technical debt in game development.
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese.

Nice to have

• Experience in a lead technical game design role, including mentoring or coaching designers in technical implementation practices.
• Experience creating designer-facing tools, content pipelines, automated validation, or debugging workflows, and designing sustainable technical solutions that enable greater designer independence.
• Experience with early-stage game development, rapid prototyping, and iterative playtesting.
• Experience with the Unreal game engine.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with designers, engineers, artists, production, and product leadership.
• Player-focused decision-making centered on player empathy and delight.
• Opportunities to experiment, challenge constraints, and iterate on ambitious game ideas.