Riot Games

Research

Content:
1.Company Research
1.1.Overview
1.2.League of Legends
1.3.Company Development
2.Company Structure
2.1.Leadership
2.2.Corporate Team
2.3.Production Team
2.4.Operations Team
2.5.Engineering Team
2.6.Art Team
2.7.Design Team
2.8.Community Team
2.9.Quality Assurance Team
2.10.Customer Service Team
2.11.User Interface Team
2.12.Business Development Team
2.13.Marketing Team
3.Job Role research
3.1.Job Role Overview
3.2.Recruitments
3.3.Duties
3.4.How to Apply

1.Company Research

1.1.Overview

Riot Games is an American video game publisher that was established in 2006. Their main office is
based in Santa Monica, California. They currently have additional offices located in Saint Louis,
Dublin, Seoul, So Paulo, Istanbul, Moscow, Sydney, and Taipei.

1.2.League of Legends

In 2009 Riot Games released League of Legends (previously known, League of Legends: Clash of
Fates), a premium MOBA title that combines elements of strategy and role-playing games to create a
unique and dynamic gaming experience.

1.3.Company
Development
Riot Games, Inc. was
founded as an
independent game
studio in 2006 by
Brandon "Ryze" Beck,
and Marc
"Tryndamere" Merrill in
Los Angeles. The
company announced
its first game, League
of Legends: Clash of
Fates, in October 2008,
and
released
Employees
atthe
thegame
company include veterans of Defense of the Ancients, such as the former lead
in
October
of
2009
as
developer Steve "Guinsoo"
Feak, and the former official DotA-Allstars website founder Steve
simply League of
"Pendragon" Mescon. Riot Games also employs some former Blizzard Entertainment employees,
Legends.
including Greg Street, former Lead Systems Designer for World of Warcraft.

2.Company structure

Riot Games

Leadership

Corporate
Team

Production
Team

Operations
Team

Engineerin
g Team

Design
Team

Art Team

Community
Team

Business
Development
Team

Quality
Assurance
Team

User Interface
Team

Marketing
Team

Many of Riot Games' developers and publishers are split into various teams in order to improve the
quality of their products.

Customer
Service Team

2.1.Leadership

Leadership

Brandon Beck

Marc Merrill

Scott Gelb

Tom Cadwell

Chris Enock

Steve Mescon

All of the company departments are equal except the Leadership. The Leadership Team is responsible for
the overall management of Riot Games, as well as having the final say on the direction the company will
take.
Brandon Ryze Beck is co-founder of Riot Games after working as a strategy consultant for Bain &
Company where he specialized in media, entertainment and private equity.
Prior to co-founding RiotMarc 'Tryndamere' Merrill worked as a corporate marketing executive at the
Business-to-Business media firm Advanstar Communications. Marc also held roles in finance at Merrill
Lynch and US Bancorp.
Tom 'Zileas' Cadwell is design director. Prior to joining Riot, Tom worked at Blizzard as a Designer on
World of Warcraft. He also worked on the Warcraft III The Frozen Throne.
Steve "Pendragon" Mescon is the creator of DotA-Allstars.com, a community website for DotA players.

2.2.Corporate Team

Corporate
Team

Brandon Beck

Marc Merrill

Liz Quintero

Vikas Jain

The Corporate Team is responsible for looking at what the future of the
company's financial situation and to make sure it is financially successful.

2.3.Production
Team
Production
Team

Assistant
Producer

Producer

Steve
Mieczkows
ki

Aaron
Smith

Travis
George
Steven
Snow
Status
Kwoh

Ryan
Laughlin

TheGreatHe
mbini
Mark Franz

Associate
Producer

Misc.
Producer

Jason
Lenny
MrCrumb
Gifted Wolf

Karen
Wnuk

Jeff Jew
RiotStallio
n

The Production Team is responsible of making sure that everything is done on schedule. They are also
responsible for planning ahead in areas such as company resources, requirements and probable
situations.
Travis Volibar George is currently working at Riot Games as a Producer of League of Legends. He
brings over five years of professional design experience to Riot Games. After finishing a program,
Travis started out working for Activision on a few games, most notably an X-Men game where he
designed Nightcrawler's powers and gameplay from start to finish.
Steve Udyr Mieczkowski is currently an Associate Producer of League of Legends. Steve graduated
from the University of Southern California with a joint Business/Cinematic Arts degree, where he

2.4.Operations Team

Operations Team

Chris Ward

Chris Collier

Nathan BenAttar

The Operations Team is responsible for the day-to-day activity of the company,
making sure each department is running smoothly.

Engineering
Team

2.5.Engineering
Team
The
Engineerin
g Team is
responsible
for creating
and
maintainin
g the
systems
needed to
run the
company,
as well as
developing
additional
features for
the game.

Andrew
Woo

Joel
Anderson
Cyriaque
Kouadio

Scott Gelb
Christopher
McArthur

Michael Root
David
Banks

Scott Delap

Jonathan
McCaffrey

Root Barry
Livingston
Kevin Borer

Vic Keenan
George
Skleres
VerrDon
Mason

Ray Perez
David
Eilering

Mike
Matsumura

Jianfei Liao
Luke Rinard

Kirk Black

Art Team

2.6.Art Team
The Art Team is responsible for the creative
activities within and outside the game.
These include artworks for the maps, the
champions, and alternative skins.
Michael IronStylus Maurino is a Senior
Concept Artist at Riot Games.

Michael
Maurino

Young
Chung

Alex M.
Lehmann

Jeremy
Putnam

Edmundo
Sanchez

Troy
Adam

Wes Keil

2.7.Design
Team
Design Team

Technical
Design

Game
Design
Tom
Cadwell

Bradford
Wenban
Rob Garrett

Richard
Hough

Steve Feak
Kuo-Yen Lo
Joe Ziegler

Colt Hallam

Kevin
O'Brien

Jeffrey Lin

Morello

Gypsylord

David
Abecassis

Siyang

Feral Pony

Meddler
Alexander
Brazie

The Design Team is

responsible for creating new
content for League of Legends.
This also includes the
"planning" and "design" of
content, thats why they are
more active in the forums in
comparison to most of other
rioters

Design Team:
Tom 'Zileas' Cadwellis currentlyDesign DirectorofLeague of Legends.
Colt "Ezreal" Hallam is currently working for Riot Games as a Game Designer of League of Legends. He was
one of the designers for the Crystal Scar.
Joe "Hephastopheles" Ziegler is Lead Champion Designer of League of Legends.
Meddleris currently working atRiot Gamesas aLead Champion DesignerofLeague of Legends.
Siyang 'Issfire'is currently working atRiot Gamesas anAssociate Game DesignerofLeague of Legends.
Jeffrey 'Lyte' LinisLead Designer of Social SystemsofLeague of Legends.
Ryan Morello Scottworks atRiot Gamesas aLead DesignerofLeague of Legends. He previously worked
forMicrosoftandArenaNet.
Rob "rjcombo" Garrettis currently working forRiot Gamesas aSenior Game DesignerofLeague of
Legends, he was musician before going into game development.

2.8.Community Team

Community
Team
Steve
Mescon

Daniel
Klein

Andrew
Beegle

Quentin
Chappet

David
Turley

Nika
Harper

Radoslaw
Pasternic
ki

The Community Team is responsible for create information resource for their
players, keeping them informed about their services, news, and events.
Andrew Tamat Beegle is working at Riot Games as an Lead Community
Manager of League of Legends.
David 'Phreak' Turley, alias Phreak is currently working at Riot Games as a
Community Coordinator. He is most well known as a shoutcaster and for
producing Champion Spotlights.

2.9.Quality Assurance
Team

The Quality Assurance Team is

responsible for making sure the game
is working correctly, and that the
players has a service of the high
quality.

2.10.Customer Service
Team

The Customer Service Team is responsible for helping

customers on a regular basis. This includes answering
their questions and assisting them with any inquiries they
may have.
Jesse Perring is currently working as the Customer
Support Specialist of Riot Games, and more importantly
as the best League of Legends player in Riot Games.

2.11.User Interface Team

User Interface
Team

Jason Cohen

Travis Goetz

The User Interface Team is

responsible for creating a humanmachine interaction that is easy,
efficient, and enjoyable to operate
in the way which produces the
desired results.

2.12.Business
Development Team
Business
Development
Team

Jason Yeh

Nicolo Laurent

The Business Development Team is

responsible for identifying ways to make
the company grow. This includes finding
new potential areas and opening
channels to distribute the game to those
areas.

Marketing
Team

2.13.Marketing
Team
The Marketing
Team is
responsible for
advertising the
game and making
it appealing for
customers to play.
This includes
creating ads,
setting up
tournaments, and
speaking directly
to potential
players.

Chris
Heintz

Chris Enock
Matt
Marcou

Andy Ho

Laura
Brown

Jeffrey
Pfingsten

Kevin
Cheug

3.Job Role research

3.1.Job Role
Overview

I locked the various jobs that this company offers and the most suitable for me is Senior
Concept artist. This position meet my needs completely because it combines my love to draw
traditionally - sketches and concepts of characters, with 3D modelling visualisation of the idea.
I have to develop the champion with other people from the team. Combine the basic ideas
and the sketches to refined character that looks enough confident and realistic on the screen.
Job Location Santa Monica, California, United States.

3.2.Recruitments:
Artistic and prolific: good eye
and knowledge for lighting,
colour, form and composition;
fast making and visualising of
sketches, quickly generating
ideas knowing that sometimes
it takes a hundred good ones
to get to the great one
An experienced collaborator:
your artistic hand reflects
years of experience refining
your craft, but youre also a
natural collaborator; allow
constructive critic, also ready
to combine ideas and be
Multi-dimensional: experience and knowledge with pad and pencil, same as Photoshop and similar 2D software; youre also
capable totodefend
yourwith
ownZBrush and other 3D programs
comfortable
experiment
Genre-bending: ready to make experiments and dont afraid to try something new, undiscovered and never tried; ready to
dive in brainstorm with ideas forgetting about the stereotypes and the boundaries
Anatomically correct: strong understanding of human and animal anatomy, but not afraid to exaggerated, stylized
proportions feel perfectly balanced in your hands
A player-focused gamer: as an avid League of Legends player yourself, gaming have to be part of you like your trusty pen
and sketchpad; and together with you art personality never let this gamer spirit to be lost

3.3.Duties
Sketch, ideate and iterate new
champion concepts in collaboration
with fellow concept artists
Collaborate closely with writers,
animators, game engineers and splash
artists to define champions that are
both narrative and visually cohesive
Develop detailed concept art and
orthographs for 3D designers and
animators to implement into working
models
Be an avid researcher and collector of
story tropes, archetypes and narrative
devices of all kind
Challenge video game conventions and
explore new territory for the League of
Legends IP

3.4.How to Apply:
I have made a research now to apply looked in twitter and LinkedIn accounts but cant find this one
person responsible for hiring people. I guess the final word would be given by the Leadership team,
which is logical. However, to apply you will need CV, Cover Letter and Striking Portfolio. Also good,
well known blog and the portfolio must show your strengths, talents and make that WOW effect.
The cover letter could be addressed with Dear Rioters or Dear Riot, which lead me to the taught
that it is not a single man that takes decisions.

Reference:
Images:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Riot-Games-EI_IE247538.11,21.htm
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Riot_Games_Inc.
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Zed?file=Zed_sculpture.jpg
http://
www.nowgamer.com/news/2149470/league_of_legends_lp_demotion_changes_ahead_of_season_4.h
tml
http://www.riotgames.com/
http://
games.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/League-of-Legends-Clash-of-Fates-Summoner-Trailer-Screen
shot-45574.html
http://www.riotgames.com/articles/20110615/233/riot-games-santa-monica
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Vi/Background?file=Vi_NeonStrike_early_design.jpg

Information:
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Riot_Games_Inc.
http://www.riotgames.com/careers/senior-concept-artist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Games