Technical Artist Intern - Rigging - League of Legends

As part of the Technical Art, Rigging team, you will create rigs for characters and props. You will oversee tool creation and maintenance for all other art disciplines. Working closely with animation, modeling, and concept teams, you will uncover new ways to improve workflow and ensure functionality, consistency, and quality. As a support, you will be the carry behind the carry, helping hoist up art teams on the strength of your rigs and tools.

• Create various game-ready rigs for characters and assets using tools such as Maya
• Troubleshoot problems to help teammates overcome blockers and remove inefficiencies
• Participate in a culture of critique: communicate clear goals and outcomes, give and take constructive feedback, decide on next-steps
• Ensure rigging assets conform to strict technical specifications
• Communicate and collaborate with other discipline experts to ensure your work contributes to an optimal player experience.

• Currently enrolled in a college, university or non degree program
• Available to work full-time hours for 10-12 weeks remotely in our US based offices
• Authorized to work in the country that you reside in during this remote program.
• Experience with Maya
• Experience in Unreal 4, including Blueprint

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with rigs for characters and creatures of diverse shape and size (bipeds, quadrupeds, etc)
• Ability to demonstrate a rig’s range of motion in expressive, exaggerated, dynamic resonant poses that show good deformation and volume preservation

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 the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Riot Internships are paid, and interns can also participate in our 401(k) plan. You can expect in-game perks, and the ability to participate in our Play Fund, so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games. The University Programs team also invites you to intern focused events so you can connect with your fellow interns and Rioters to make the most out of your experience.

(Remote Only) The hourly rate for this internship is USD $38.32.

Production Operations Managers are accountable to provide VALORANT Leadership a consistent and maintained project portfolio, partnering with Production to ensure rituals, processes and input/output of project status is delivered to expectation. They partner closely with Production as well as Business Operations to ensure a consistent and highly effective communication program is maintained bridging both.

VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based, tactical shooter.  As a Production Operations Manager on the VALORANT Operations Services Team, you’ll be responsible for helping Riot deliver a consistently maintained, managed and communicated Portfolio of projects and programs essential for VALORANT releases. You will keep the players' experience in mind as you track progress, manage programs, build and maintain Production tracking and communication best practices, and organize priorities and goals. You will work closely with all teams in VALORANT. You will report to the Senior Manager Production Operations, within the Operations organization.

• Work on VALORANT level Project Portfolio
• Work and align across multiple teams to lead social, commerce and other game features
• Accountable for the communication program inclusive of Production and Leadership
• Ensure team's work matches overall project priorities and goals
• Plan out and track development milestones and timelines, ensuring any changes are communicated to the stakeholders for cross team visibility

• Currently enrolled in a computer science, engineering, or related degree program
• Available to work full-time hours for 10-12 weeks remotely in our US based offices
• Authorized to work in the country that you reside in during this remote program.
• Knowledge of the feature development process
• Experience managing complex programs that include processes, Executive level communication and production delivery challenges
• Experience partnering with qualitative and quantitative research/analysis professionals

• Professional experience as a Game or Software Development Producer, Product Manager, or Program Manager
• Professional experience as a manager coaching and mentoring junior production and/or project team members
• Experience shipping a games or software development products
• Experience working with teams that develop microservices 
• Familiarity with product monetization strategies

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 the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

• Support the current R&D projects through the production pipeline and process
• Work and align across multiple teams to lead social, commerce and other game features
• Plan out and track development milestones and timelines, ensuring any changes are communicated to the stakeholders for cross team visibility.
• Manage collaborations with partners, bridge the gap between organizations by facilitating discussions and encouraging agreement between leads to make decisions that affect game service and operations in China
• Support all launch and release activities that may not be limited to tech, publishing, translation, live ops, etc.

• Currently enrolled in an MBA program or related degree program
• Available to work full-time hours for 10-12 weeks remotely in our US based offices
• Authorized to work in the country that you reside in during this remote program.
• Proficient in Google Suite, Excel
• Proven problem-solving and organization skills
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Experience in product management

• Full-lifecycle project ownership, from creation to launch
• Familiarity with Chinese e-commerce and social systems in mobile games
• Experience conducting market analysis and leveraging the learnings through new product designs 
• Experience using project management tools to track and achieve project milestones (Favro, Trello, JIRA, Notion, etc.).

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 the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

(Remote Only) The hourly rate for this internship is USD $34.81.

Riot Internships are paid, and we offer relocation and housing support. You can expect subsidized meals and the ability to participate in our Play Fund, so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games. The University Programs team also invites you to intern focused events so you can connect with your fellow interns and Rioters to make the most out of your experience.

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.

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