Julian Samal
Creative Leadership and Operations at Riot Games | Leading Multi-Discipline Organizations & High-Performance Creative Pipelines for Live-Service Ecosystems
- Role
- Senior Manager, Creative Services at Riot Games
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Julian Samal
Senior creative leader with ten years of experience building the systems, teams, and organizational structures that support global live service ecosystems. I specialize in scaling multidisciplinary creative groups, modernizing production pipelines, and guiding diverse teams and vendor networks toward clear strategy and sustainable delivery. I lead a central creative organization supporting four live titles that reach more than one hundred million players. My work centers on operational clarity, cross functional partnership, long range planning, and the coordination of distributed teams across regions to deliver consistent, high quality player experiences.
Experience
Senior Manager, Creative Services
Mar 2023 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
Lead global creative management for four live titles reaching more than 100 million players. Oversee central organization spanning audio, voice-over, narrative, and localization, with responsibility for operational strategy, team structure, and cross-product service delivery.• Direct multi-discipline teams and international vendor/partner networks to ensure consistent, high-quality content across regions and platforms• Build and modernize content production pipelines that improve efficiency, predictability, and scale for live service ecosystems• Partner with product, creative, engineering, and publishing leadership to align roadmaps, capacity strategies, and long-range creative goals• Drive organizational clarity and cross-team cohesion through structured planning, communication frameworks, and operational governance• Advance technical and workflow systems that support faster iteration, reduced friction, and sustainable production at scale
Education
Berklee College of Music
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Production & Design
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Ableton Live
- Absynth
- Bands
- Video Games
- Massive
- Tenor Saxophone
- Logic Pro
- Music Production
- Music Theory
- Windows
- Piano
- Melodyne
- Film
- Post Production
- Audio Mixing
- Concerts
- Propellerheads Reason
- Fmod
- Studio Recording
- Film Scoring
- Songwriting
- Guitar
- Entertainment
- Music Industry
- Recording
- Dialogue Editing
- Kontakt
- Javascript
- Mastering
- Field Recording
- Music Synthesis
- Audio Post Production
- Classical Music
- Music
- Composition
- Audio Engineering
- Jazz
- Unity
- Original Music
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