Associate Art Director

About the Role As an Associate Art Director, you will guide a Singapore-based game team’s creative output, upholding Riot’s artistic vision and ensuring cohesion across the project. You will translate Riot NA’s creative and product vision into high-quality, emotionally resonant art across concept through final in-game assets, while mentoring leads and fostering a collaborative, inclusive studio culture. What You'll Do

• Be the creative leader for the Singapore game team.
• Uphold the artistic vision, craft standards, and success criteria that drive clarity, readability, and emotional impact set by the NA leadership team.
• Oversee art direction for the Singapore game team, from concept through final in-game assets, ensuring the work expresses clear thematic vision, craft excellence, and strong player resonance.
• Partner closely with Riot NA Creative and Product leadership to interpret and implement the creative and artistic vision, ensuring alignment with global quality standards, and thematic intent.
• Partner with production to ensure pipelines support sustainable quality.
• Collaborate across Riot NA and Singapore to maintain alignment, manage feedback, and resolve challenges across all stages of production.
• Build strong, trust-based relationships with Riot NA Creative, Art, and Product partners through transparency, reliability, and consistent delivery.
• Remove creative and operational blockers to enable sustainable delivery, and partner closely with Riot NA and Singapore leadership to align on art direction, share best practices, and ensure visual consistency across regions.
• Mentor and grow craft leads, fostering both creative excellence, craft proficiency and leadership confidence.
• Inspire teams to push boundaries while maintaining the project’s distinctive visual identity.
• Foster a healthy, inclusive, and creatively charged team culture that encourages experimentation, feedback, and continuous improvement - aligned with Riot’s values and player focus.
• Success in this role comes from translating Riot NA’s creative and product vision into inspiring, high-quality creative content. You’ll align cross-regional teams, synthesize feedback, and guide Singapore’s artists to deliver work that embodies the project’s clarity, craft excellence, and fantasy - bringing joy to players around the world. What We're Looking For
• Deep experience with the game art production pipeline, across multiple art disciplines.
• Proven success in art direction and people management.
• Strong background collaborating with external vendors.