Principal Game Designer - League of Legends, ARAM Mayhem

As a game designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity aid in crafting in-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to innovate and iterate playe...

As a Principal Game Designer on ARAM: Mayhem, you will level up the team responsible for growing and improving this hit new game mode within League of Legends. You will use your deep understanding of League players to develop new content and systems that deliver unforgettable high moments for the champions they love...

Design and implement Augments and other content that demonstrate exemplary gameplay satisfaction.
Provide direction, mentorship, and feedback to other game designers, fostering an environment of collaboration and craft excellence.
Conduct early stage discovery on new projects that quickly validates their direction using intentional iteration and effective playtesting.
Contribute to team processes that operationalize our design goals and ensure reliable, sustainable, high quality delivery of new content.

8+ years of experience in professional Game Development
High familiarity with League of Legends and a strong understanding of what excites League players
Experience designing sets or other content streams for a live service game
Demonstrated proficiency in scripting in at least one engine in a shipped title
Experience leading projects or teams
Experience designing characters or other player ability kits
Experience as a senior thought leader of materially-impactful world-class innovations on a commercial video game

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!