Principal Researcher - League of Legends

About this role

The Insights discipline helps empower Rioters' decision-making to be more data-informed. We're an interdisciplinary group of scientists, consultants, and strategists from all sorts of backgrounds who join together to represent and advocate for gamers around the world. We believe that illuminating the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of gamers is critical to Riot living up to our player-focused mission

We're a group united by our love of games, science, and helping others succeed. As a Principal Researcher on the League of Legends development team, you’ll be responsible for helping Riot conduct high complexity research that helps us understand League’s current and emerging audiences and inform/assess what we build for those audiences. You'll conduct a wide range of studies and analyses including (but not limited to) qualitative interviews, global market surveys, segmentation, playtests, usability, and focus groups

You’ll be part of an interdisciplinary Insights team working closely with a diverse group of devs to turn the findings of your research into recommendations and action. Your research background coupled with your deep understanding of data will ensure that you’re an effective advocate for players and can provide strategic guidance about their wants, needs, and behaviors. This role will report to the Senior Manager of Insights (Research) for League of Legends

This hybrid position blends onsite work in Santa Monica, CA with remote flexibility. Responsibilities: Design and execute end-to-end studies using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to uncover player motivations, pain points, and emerging opportunity areas. Effectively lead vendor engagements supporting global playtesting, focus groups, and survey work

This included negotiating project requirements with stakeholders, submitting RFPs, reviewing proposals, negotiating pricing, and holding vendors accountable to their commitments. Conduct playtests and usability testi

Apply for this role on Riot Games’s official careers site.