Senior Game Designer - Unpublished R&D; Product

Company

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

What you will do

• Define how narrative content is delivered across gameplay and game systems.
• Translate story goals, tone, and thematic direction into clear player-facing presentations.
• Build delivery strategies for different types of narrative content.
• Prototype and validate ideas for readability, emotional clarity, and production viability.
• Partner with design, art, engineering, audio, VFX, UI, and production teams to implement narrative content in-game.
• Review integrated content and improve pacing, clarity, immersion, and the overall player experience.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in narrative design, game design, implementation design, or a related discipline.
• Deep understanding of interactive narrative and its connection to gameplay and systems.
• Experience prototyping and validating narrative or player-facing design ideas in-game.
• Strong game design instincts and comfort shaping narrative through interactive experiences.
• Experience collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams across multiple stages of development.
• Comfort working in ambiguous and evolving development environments, with a good understanding of Riot's products.

Nice to have

• Experience in a lead or highly ownership-driven narrative presentation, implementation, or systems-facing narrative role.
• Experience with tools or runtime narrative delivery.
• Strong instincts for scalable narrative delivery under production constraints.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Culture & Benefits

• Player-focused development centered on empathy and delighting players.
• Collaborative work across multiple disciplines.
• Openness to experimentation and unconventional approaches.
• Decision-making that prioritizes the quality of player experiences.