Supervisor, Art Outsourcing - Valorant

As a Supervisor, Art Outsourcing, you will help connect product teams to the right external partners while improving art outsource infrastructure and practices. You will build meaningful and trusting external relationships through clear two-way communication and planning. Your approach will ensure sustainable production without compromising quality. A perfect blend between a veteran production artist and logistics expert, you will strive to make the outsourcing experience truly world-class and engaging for all parties involved.

VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!) As a Supervisor of Art Outsourcing on the VALORANT team, you will play a key part in managing the work and relationship with multiple art vendors. You will use both your extraordinary interpersonal and relationship skills to cultivate positive working relationships with our vendors.

Responsibilities

• Art Support - You will leverage your art background in fixing issues, ensuring consistent quality across outsourced content and providing asset and integration support as necessary.
• Vendor Relationships - We have multiple domestic and international vendors. We want to foster positive relationships between Riot and the external teams we work with. You'll communicate Riot's vision and feedback to those vendors and serve as the voice for those teams. While we embrace technology to communicate, we also value spending time together and this role will require you to travel internationally to vendor sites.
• Workflow - You’ll handle the workflow of all outsourced tasks. This will include organizing and leading all daily rituals, gathering all submissions by vendors, and presenting those submissions to the team for feedback. You will also review assets independently, providing feedback in alignment with team quality bars and art benchmarks. Once feedback is gathered you will clean it up and deliver it back to the vendors in a clear and understandable way.
• Partner Development - You will provide clear feedback and support with the intention to grow and develop vendor capabilities during continued engagements. Showing not just the what, but also the why in the feedback.
• Problem Solving - You will remove roadblocks that hinder partner progress and keep track of recurring issues and develop a systemic solution.
• Vendor Management - If we need to engage new vendors, you will make initial contact with those new vendors and set up art trials.
• Administration - You’ll manage contracts for existing and new vendors as well as reviewing and approving timecards/invoices.
• Asset Management - We'd like you to make sure our art assets to be clean, organized and defined correctly so we can access them easily.

Required Qualifications

• Strong presentation skills and ability to talk to technical staff, artists, and business leaders
• Professional experience working on asset management and maintaining asset pipelines
• 3+ years of professional experience handling several art vendors concurrently, or professional experience working with multiple internal and external partners.

Desired Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in the games industry
• Strong knowledge of and technical skills in concept art and illustration
• Professional experience creating and integrating art in a production environment

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

(Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $102,000.00 - $143,200.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

(Bellevue only) Base salary range between $102,000.00 - $143,200.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.