Director, Art Direction - Unpublished R&D Product

Art Directors at Riot drive the quality and performance of their team, establishing direction and goals that provide clarity and focus. Your scope of responsibilities include leading with vision, strategic partnership across the game, a deep understanding of audience resonance, overall team culture and performance, growth of your direct reports, and directing your team on successful execution of your vision and strategy.

As an Art Director an unpublished R&D product, you will help bring the game’s visual direction to life in a new game for players around the world. You will translate our creative direction into a distinctive, emotionally compelling, production-ready visual identity that supports gameplay, strengthens character appeal, and meets the craft bar players expect from Riot. You will partner closely with Creative Direction, Game Leadership, cross-disciplinary teams, and external partners to translate the game’s visual ambition into a cohesive, art direction. 

Responsibilities:

• Steward the game’s visual identity from concept through production
• Translate creative direction into clear visual standards, production practices, and scalable art workflows
• Drive visual quality, appeal, and gameplay readability across all player-facing art
• Apply deep expertise in the art style across art, animation, VFX, visual storytel