About the company
Riot Games centers its game development philosophy on player experience. The studio debuted League of Legends in 2009, which grew into the world's most-played video game with over 100 million monthly active players.
Responsibilities
- Creating guidelines and tools to help designers, developers, and architects comply with accessibility standards
- Create design requirements for both game and web products
- Work with UX designers to define strategy, roadmap, and priorities
- Perform accessibility reviews and provide feedback on designs and features
- Incorporate accessibility requirements into design documents and specifications
- Manage the photosensitive epilepsy flash rate testing process and training
- Propose improvements to existing processes and features to increase usability
- Work with UX researchers to identify and gather data around features
- Use data insights and user feedback to make recommendations to product teams
- Create Accessibility personas and user stories
- Triage and prioritize accessibility issues and provide guidance for remediation
- Train and educate product teams on accessibility requirements
- Audit games and web applications for compliance with best practices and accessibility standards
- Keep up to date with current changes and trends in accessibility
Requirements
- 5+ years of UX design experience
- 3+ years of accessibility experience
- Expert knowledge of accessible and inclusive design principles and methodologies
- Strong understanding of core game design technologies (Unity, Unreal etc.)
- Experience with UX software development using HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS and other UI technologies
- Experience with UI prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD
- Experience using common screen readers: JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver
- Experience using keyboard navigation and other assistive technology
- Experience testing with flash-rate testing tools (e.g. Harding, PEAT)
- Knowledge of accessibility standards including WCAG, WAI-ARIA, Section 508 C
- Experience using task and ticket management tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)
Conditions
- Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules
- Medical, dental, and life insurance
- Parental leave
- 401k with company match