Technical Art Manager - Unpublished R&D Product
About this role
At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team is partnering globally to build next-generation features and technology on an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. The team focuses on supporting the game's visual targets and content production needs - helping our artists to realize a vibrant and rich world for players to be immersed and express themselves in.
As a Manager, Technical Art, Tools & Pipeline, you'll help define and scale the creative workflows that power content creation across our next generation of worlds. You'll lead and grow a team of talented technical artists, providing hands-on coaching, clear direction, and thoughtful feedback that elevates both craft and collaboration. By partnering closely with Art Leadership, Technical Art, Production, and Engineering, you'll help shape the tools, pipelines, and workflows that enable artists to create high-quality content efficiently and at scale.
As a Manager, Technical Art, you'll own the artist-facing ecosystem of tools and content pipelines, ensuring workflows are intuitive, documented, and built to support evolving production needs. You'll work closely with Engineering and cross-disciplinary partners to identify opportunities for workflow improvements, evaluate new technologies, and establish scalable systems that empower artists across multiple disciplines including Character Art, Animation, Environment Art, Audio, and VFX. From pipeline architecture to workflow optimization, you'll help ensure content creation systems support both immediate production goals and the long-term needs of the project. As a strategic cross-disciplinary partner, you'll communicate priorities, risks, and opportunities ...