Riot Games · 1 week ago
Senior Researcher - Unpublished R&D Product
Los Angeles, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expRiot Games is an interdisciplinary group dedicated to empowering decision-making through data-informed insights. As a Senior User Researcher for Riot Discovery Studios, you will lead user research efforts to inform the development of a new game experience, conducting various studies and analyses to advocate for players' needs and guide the product's direction.
ComputerDeveloper PlatformPC GamesVideo Games
Responsibilities
Drive user research efforts on game teams in partnership with production, design, creative, and publishing leadership on high complexity, ambiguous problem spaces to help direct the experience of our new games, systems, and features
Construct and perform labs, studies, and surveys - sometimes with novel or complex methodologies - designed to answer business, design, development, and usability questions
Be an advocate for our players and provide strategic guidance about their wants, needs, and behaviors
Meaningfully contribute to discussions on the best way to conduct and improve testing and audience research work for games in development
Help to drive operational best practices and craft standards for how we use user research in RDS Office
Share your results with game and RDS leadership in clear, illustrative presentations that drive meaningful change
Mentor other researchers, helping them learn from your experiences
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline plus 4 years of relevant research experience in game development
Experience in user research, especially in testing methods that yield useful qualitative sentiment (i.e. discussions, IDI), quantified sentiment (i.e. surveys), and direct observation of behaviors (i.e. think aloud)
Experience running playtests in a variety of paradigms potentially including moderated testing, unmoderated testing, focused feature-specific testing, holistic and longitudinal testing, and more complex or constrained testing paradigms
Trusted to operate independently regardless of structure, owns larger problems/projects/workstreams
Ability to work collaboratively with others
Experience synthesizing and presenting data for maximum impact and understanding
Experience designing and performing basic survey research
Preferred
Experience conducting games user research during the early stages of the development life cycle particularly incubation, prototype, and pre-production
Familiarity with publishing and broad market research including methods for concept testing and large scale quantitative surveys
Familiarity with basic statistical methods for data analysis (regressions, correlations, factor analyses)
Familiarity with qualitative methods and analysis
Experience leading complex projects with multiple collaborators and work streams
Experience managing vendors
Experience working with leadership at the “team of teams” level on strategic and operational problems
Benefits
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
Company
Riot Games
Riot Games is a global company that develops online games.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$21M2018-12-31Series Unknown· $6M
2016-11-14Convertible Note
2011-02-01Acquired
Leadership Team
A. Dylan Jadeja
Chief Executive Officer
Brandon Beck
Co-chairman, Co-founder
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