Riot Games is seeking a Senior Tools & Pipeline Technical Artist to join our Central Creative team. You will play a critical role in shaping our art content creation pipelines by deeply understanding creator workflows across projects. Your focus will be on identifying opportunities to adopt, evolve, and develop pipeline solutions that can be shared across the company.
What You'll Do
- Partner with artists, technical artists, and engineers to deeply understand content creation workflows across multiple projects
- Evaluate existing tools and pipelines across Riot to identify opportunities for adoption, consolidation, and reuse
- Extend, adapt, and support proven pipeline solutions for broader use where appropriate
- Design, implement, and own new tools and pipeline solutions when existing approaches do not meet creator needs
- Identify and reduce redundant or fragmented pipeline efforts by promoting shared systems and workflows
- Reason holistically about end-to-end art pipelines and evaluate tradeoffs across tools, processes, and technologies
- Independently drive pipeline research, targeted development efforts, and AI experimentation as needed
- Collaborate across disciplines to ensure shared solutions are practical, reliable, and aligned with real production needs
- Contribute to defining pipeline standards, best practices, and long-term technical direction for Central Creative
- Document tools and workflows and support adoption through clear communication and collaboration
What We're Looking For
- Significant professional experience as a Technical Artist, Tools-focused Technical Artist, or similar role
- Strong hands-on experience with modern DCC tools and game engines
- Proven experience building and maintaining tools or pipelines used in production at scale
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous problem spaces and drive solutions to completion
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical disciplines
- Experience collaborating with large, cross-disciplinary game development teams
- Minimum of 8 years development experience
Nice to Have
- Experience experimenting with or deploying AI-assisted content generation in production workflows
- Deep understanding of end-to-end art pipelines across multiple asset types or disciplines
- Experience influencing pipeline standards or best practices beyond a single team
- Strong product sense and pragmatism when balancing creator needs, technical constraints, and maintainability
Technical Stack
- Modern DCC tools
- Game engines
Team & Environment
You will be a part of the Central Creative Technical Art Team and will report to a Technical Art Director.
Benefits & Compensation
- Open paid time off policy
- Flexible work schedules
- Medical, dental, and life insurance
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
- 401k with company match
It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law.
