Manager, Technical Game Design

Responsibilities:
Manage the project’s technical game designers: help them grow, learn, and perform to their potential.
Maintain a high craft bar: Ensure that the work you oversee meets Riot's demanding craft standards
Advocate for players: Stay in tune with the player experience and know how to understand and incorporate their feedback into roadmaps and feature decisions
Collaborate and build trust: Work closely with other discipline leads and managers to ensure Tech Design is delivering what they need, when they need it; ensure that features can be scoped efficiently so project plans can be built; and foster relationships with teams outside of Teamfight Tactics
Build strong teams: Take an active role in recruiting and onboarding to ensure capable technical game designers join our teams and ramp up quickly

Required Qualifications:
6+ years of experience as a technical game designer, gameplay engineer, or some similar position closely associated with both technical and game design work
2+ years of experience as a manager, team lead, or discipline leader (can overlap with the above requirement)
Craft: Craft interviews for this role will look at both gameplay engineering and game design skills; we’d like to see Senior level craft expertise in one, but not necessarily both
Management: You'll need leadership experience resolving conflict within and across teams and fostering healthy team culture, along with examples of managing other designers with positive results: promotion, performance improvement, and strong delivery to players
High familiarity with Teamfight Tactics, or willingness to rapidly build that familiarity

Desired Qualifications:
4+ years of experience as a manager or team lead
8+ years of experience as a technical game designer or gameplay engineer
Experience growing both junior and senior designers or engineers - striking the right balance of assistance and autonomy
Experience working on a live service game
Deep engagement with Teamfight Tactics over multiple sets
Experience working in the Unreal Engine
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!