Lead Concept Art

Job Details

This position for the Singapore Teamfight Tactics concept team, your artisanship, leadership and eye for design and storytelling will help deliver deep commitment and rich fantasy worlds to our players.

You will work closely with the product teams and other artists, ensuring that the concept design is not only a beautiful work of art, but also effectively fulfills the product and storytelling objectives, giving a clear direction and support to collaborating production teams. You’ll retain your own craft skills, inspire creativity, and maintain a high-quality bar with a practical design tailored to your needs.

Responsibilities

• As the Concept Craft Lead within the team, you will oversee and be accountable for the quality of work delivered by the team and set the bar for excellence.
• You will build a world-class team by recruiting AAA Concept Art talent in China, and develop and develop their conceptual skills through training and feedback.
• You will establish and maintain a highly engaged, creative and motivated workspace for your team to unlock people’s potential.
• You will collaborate with Rioters in Singapore and around the world, to ensure product objectives are met and working practices are appropriate
• You will define a clear vision and strategy to grow your team, provide consistent feedback, build trust with your team
• Lead the development of style guides and process guides
• Lead and enhance team rituals to support high quality craftsmanship and individual growth
• You will accomplish your mission independently if the need arises; you are committed to finding creative and effective solutions to vigilantly eliminate difficult problems

Qualifications

• Illustrate ability to create high quality concept art
• Excellent command of art fundamentals, design principles and color theory
• A clear understanding and proven ability to work within the Teamfight Tactics art style
• Proven track record in leading/mentoring teams and individuals. Spirit of growth and motivation to teach, empower and coach other illustrators
• Experience giving in-depth advice and providing timely, clear and actionable feedback to other artists on crafting
• A good communicator and able to convey abstract/sophisticated ideas concisely, in English or Chinese

Our Advantages

• Full relocation support
• Comprehensive health insurance for you, your spouse and your children
• Open paid holidays
• Retirement Benefits with Company Match
• Life insurance, short and long term disability
• Play Fund so you can expand and deepen your knowledge of our players and our section through games
• We’ll double your donations of time and money to nonprofit organizations
• Don’t forget to attach a CV and a cover letter. We get a lot of applications, but we’ll notice a fun, well-written introduction that shows us you take the game seriously.

About us

Established in 2020, Singapore Studio is Riot’s second international game development studio. Working with our Hong Kong studio, Riot has expanded our footprint in Asia and accelerated the growth of our talent to develop games that deliver exceptional experiences for our players. Our mission is to “evolve Riot’s games to hyper-served players”.

We partner with our LA headquarters on game development for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runeterra. We’re also building teams for VALORANT and Project L, our version of a fighting game. The Singapore studio is looking for talented and passionate Rioters with experience in all areas of game development to create games that improve player quality.