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Riot Games: Senior Visual Web Designer
Location: Santa Monica, CA
URL: http://www.riotgames.com
Are you passionate about
creating amazing visual designs for the web? Love smartly scalable design that
loads fast and looks amazing, too? Think that combining high fantasy with clean
minimalism to create uniquely branded design solutions sounds like a challenge
to die for? Then let us introduce you to a Senior
Visual Web Designer role at Riot Games.
creating amazing visual designs for the web? Love smartly scalable design that
loads fast and looks amazing, too? Think that combining high fantasy with clean
minimalism to create uniquely branded design solutions sounds like a challenge
to die for? Then let us introduce you to a Senior
Visual Web Designer role at Riot Games.
If you have a portfolio that
makes people’s jaws’ drop and a love for online games and the player
communities that surround them (esp. MOBAs and MMORPGs), then we’d like to talk
to you.
makes people’s jaws’ drop and a love for online games and the player
communities that surround them (esp. MOBAs and MMORPGs), then we’d like to talk
to you.
As a Senior Visual Web
Designer at Riot you will have the opportunity to not only work with a team of
“mad-skillz” visual and UX designers but also collaborate with smart,
passionate people across the organization to raise the quality bar for League
of Legends and create strong design solutions for a range of League of Legends
products, including the LeagueofLegends.com website, Heads-Up Display (HUD),
and collateral assets to help evolve and maintain an aesthetic that is second
to none.
Designer at Riot you will have the opportunity to not only work with a team of
“mad-skillz” visual and UX designers but also collaborate with smart,
passionate people across the organization to raise the quality bar for League
of Legends and create strong design solutions for a range of League of Legends
products, including the LeagueofLegends.com website, Heads-Up Display (HUD),
and collateral assets to help evolve and maintain an aesthetic that is second
to none.
The bar is set high. Riot is
a fast-paced and results oriented environment and the Riot culture kicks some serious butt
(in a good way)! We love what we do and we have a lot of fun doing it.
a fast-paced and results oriented environment and the Riot culture kicks some serious butt
(in a good way)! We love what we do and we have a lot of fun doing it.
Think you have what it takes?
Then go ahead and apply. You won’t regret it!
Then go ahead and apply. You won’t regret it!
More about the Sr. Visual Web Designer role and
responsibilities:
responsibilities:
- Work closely in an Agile
environment with UX designers, front-end developers, and key stakeholders to
create a highly polished visual experience that represents brand, business,
and end-user requirements - Proactively identify opportunities
for improvements, and propose innovative changes to the visual design
process - Work with Lead Visual Web Designer
and other visual design team members to visually refine and evolve the
Riot Games and League of Legends brands’ look and feel to create quality
and consistency throughout League of Legends products - Design assets such as visually
branded user interfaces and support graphics that align with the brand
style - Generate, maintain, and
disseminate design documents such as style guides and design pattern
libraries that facilitate a high quality, consistent visual aesthetic.
More about the Mad-Skillz Designer that is you:
·
As a
designer, you’re happiest when you’re pushing the envelope. While you’re
entrepreneurial and hands-on, your best work comes from a place of
collaboration and teamwork, which is perfect for this Agile environment.
As a
designer, you’re happiest when you’re pushing the envelope. While you’re
entrepreneurial and hands-on, your best work comes from a place of
collaboration and teamwork, which is perfect for this Agile environment.
·
You have outstanding visual design skills with a strong
sense of graphic design, layout, color, and typography with a deep appreciation
for simple, sleek, and usable designs.
You have outstanding visual design skills with a strong
sense of graphic design, layout, color, and typography with a deep appreciation
for simple, sleek, and usable designs.
·
You
have a solid understanding of core User Experience Design principles as they
relate to your craft
You
have a solid understanding of core User Experience Design principles as they
relate to your craft
·
You have an appreciation for using analytics and user
research data to help inform and guide design decisions
You have an appreciation for using analytics and user
research data to help inform and guide design decisions
·
You can clearly articulate how and why effective designs
help achieve business goals.
You can clearly articulate how and why effective designs
help achieve business goals.
·
You
have experience working on high-traffic, deep-content sites that are CMS driven
You
have experience working on high-traffic, deep-content sites that are CMS driven
·
You most
likely have experience designing for full-scale visual web redesigns as well as
highly iterative aesthetic evolutions (over time) of sites (or maybe you don’t,
but you really want to have this experience!)
You most
likely have experience designing for full-scale visual web redesigns as well as
highly iterative aesthetic evolutions (over time) of sites (or maybe you don’t,
but you really want to have this experience!)
·
You
are an expert at the design tools in your toolbox (e.g Photoshop, etc.)
You
are an expert at the design tools in your toolbox (e.g Photoshop, etc.)
·
You
understand the technologies used to create great web experiences (e.g. CSS,
Flash, Javascript) enough that your designs account for their inherent
strengths and limitations.
You
understand the technologies used to create great web experiences (e.g. CSS,
Flash, Javascript) enough that your designs account for their inherent
strengths and limitations.
·
You
have an understanding of design patterns and visual design hierarchies/systems
and their importance to the successful design of large-scale sites
You
have an understanding of design patterns and visual design hierarchies/systems
and their importance to the successful design of large-scale sites
·
You
play nice with others and recognize that the best results come from
collaborative communication throughout your process.
You
play nice with others and recognize that the best results come from
collaborative communication throughout your process.
·
You
enjoy helping to grow the design skills of other, more junior, designers but
also realize that you still have a lot to learn (mentoring is a two-way street
and you enjoy driving on it).
You
enjoy helping to grow the design skills of other, more junior, designers but
also realize that you still have a lot to learn (mentoring is a two-way street
and you enjoy driving on it).
·
You
prefer Agile Development to Waterfall any day of the week
You
prefer Agile Development to Waterfall any day of the week
·
Even
if you don’t call yourself a gamer you have a love of games, especially online
strategy games.
Even
if you don’t call yourself a gamer you have a love of games, especially online
strategy games.
To apply: Sound like you? Then what are you waiting for? Send us your résumé and link to your online portfolio to kdominguez@riotgames.com. We’re fun, passionate, hard-working peeps who love what we do and the people we do it with…and hey, the 50 cent Red Bul
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