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Leads the visual direction of an unpublished 3D game, translating creative vision into production-ready art standards and workflows. Oversees visual quality across characters, animation, VFX, storytelling, and gameplay readability while balancing technical and production constraints. Builds, mentors, and directs internal and external art teams, vendors, and co-development partners. Collaborates with game leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver a cohesive player experience and maintain high artistic quality throughout development.

Lead console development for an unpublished game. Collaborate across teams, solve technical problems, optimize performance, and mentor new engineers.

Leads the global creative vision and operating model for Riot’s Growth Marketing portfolio. Develops performance-focused creative for paid social, video, mobile, creator, and emerging channels; uses experimentation, performance data, and audience insights to guide iteration; establishes scalable global and localized frameworks; directs agencies, creators, and production partners; and aligns growth creative with game brands while enabling autonomous execution.

Lead product strategy and cross-functional delivery for VALORANT’s developer platforms, build and release pipelines, engine capabilities, tooling, workflows, and backend services. Partner with engineering and central technology teams to resolve ambiguous technical challenges, improve development velocity and release predictability, and represent Foundations leadership. The role requires strong technical judgment, game development lifecycle expertise, platform product ownership, influence without direct authority, and experience using agentic AI to improve product management.

Develop and maintain C++ systems for Teamfight Tactics on iOS and Android using Unreal Engine. Diagnose cross-platform, engine, and native mobile issues; optimize performance, memory, stability, and reliability; and influence architecture, engineering practices, tooling, testing, and release processes. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support.

Leads a game engineering team developing and modernizing League of Legends alternate play modes. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, contributing hands-on C++ implementation for UI and player-facing gameplay systems, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product, design, art, and other engineering teams to ship scalable features.

Lead vision, strategy, and product discovery for Riot's Social SDK. Drive roadmap, manage stakeholder relationships with game teams, prioritize backlog, define SLAs, and collaborate with engineering, design, and QA to deliver scalable social platform features (voice/text chat, presence, shared interfaces).

Lead visual design for an unpublished R&D game, establishing its user interface style, visual identity, quality standards, and design systems. Create intuitive interfaces and production-ready assets from concept through implementation while applying expertise in graphic design, typography, layout, color, illustration, and interactivity. Collaborate with artists, engineers, designers, and producers, guide UI planning, and extend themes through style guides and conventions.

Develop and maintain C++ UI frameworks, authoring tools, and workflows for League of Legends. Collaborate across teams, contribute to technical designs, own software lifecycles, mentor engineers, support production tools, and drive large development efforts from requirements through testing and delivery. Partner with engineers, designers, and artists to improve tooling effectiveness and user experience.

Build and operate governed production data pipelines in Databricks using medallion architecture, Unity Catalog, data quality controls, lineage, and semantic models. Develop AI agents and retrieval-augmented applications grounded in enterprise data using Mosaic AI and model serving. Integrate enterprise systems through APIs and events, implement security and observability, and own architecture, testing, CI/CD, deployment, and production support.