Riot Games

Publishing Product Manager, Americas

Riot Games$166K — $232K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, business administration, or similar experience.
  • 8+ years in game publishing or related fields, focusing on regional strategy.
  • Expertise in North American market with knowledge of Latin America and Brazil.
  • Strong understanding of cultural dynamics across the Americas.
  • Analytical and strategic thinker, comfortable in ambiguous environments.
  • Effective communicator, representing regional insights to global leaders.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute regional strategies for projects across the Americas.
  • Act as the regional expert, influencing global product and brand strategies.
  • Lead cross-functional teams with a startup mentality towards action.
  • Manage budgets and resource allocation for regional initiatives.
  • Set performance indicators and track publishing results.
  • Build relationships with stakeholders to prioritize regional needs globally.
  • Identify risks and ensure alignment with overarching global strategies.

Benefits

  • Work/life balance with open paid time off policy and flexible schedules.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and life insurance offered.
  • Parental leave for employees and their partners.
  • 401k plan with company match to support retirement savings.
Full Job Description
As the Publishing Product Management Lead, Americas, you will play a critical role in shaping strategy across the Americas during a formative stage of a new product's lifecycle. Reporting to the GM of the Americas and working closely with global leads and the development team, you will drive subregional strategies aligned with broader regional and global objectives. Your deep understanding of market trends, player behavior, and cultural nuances across the Americas will be critical as you work to deliver exceptional value to players while ensuring optimal operational efficiency and performance.

You will play a key role in advocating for the region's needs in global decision-making processes and ensuring that product ecosystems and community involvement thrive across the Americas. This role is anchored in strong North America market expertise, while also requiring the cultural fluency and operational judgment to support Latin America and Brazil through effective local partnerships and vendors. In this role, you'll also oversee budgeting and resource allocation to support the successful execution of regional goals. Above all, you will demonstrate a relentless, entrepreneurial drive to always be delivering for players.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and execute Americas regional strategies for various projects, ensuring alignment with global priorities and focusing on product ecosystems, community engagement, and cultural and market trends across North America, with informed support for Latin America and Brazil.
  • Act as the regional expert on specific target audiences, sharing insights to product and brand teams in order to influence global publishing plans and the product itself.
  • Lead cross-functional workstreams across product, publishing, brand, platform, and comms, operating with a startup mindset and bias toward action.
  • Oversee subregional budgets, ensuring effective resource allocation and tracking performance to optimize results.
  • Recommend and align country-based outcomes linked to regional key results, set performance indicators, and track publishing efforts' performance.
  • Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, serving as a core voice for Americas players throughout Riot and ensuring regional needs are prioritized in global decision-making.
  • Identify risks in regional projects and provide cultural and market expertise while also ensuring alignment with global strategies.
  • Scale impact through partners, including a broad ecosystem of agencies, vendors, first parties, and external partners, ensuring strong creative quality and operational execution.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, business administration, or comparable professional experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in game publishing, entertainment, sports, or non-traditional media brands, with a track record of shaping regional strategies and delivering outcomes.
  • Proven experience leading regional publishing or marketing strategy across multiple markets in the Americas, with deep expertise in North America strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated understanding of cultural and consumer dynamics across the Americas, including the ability to partner effectively with vendors and external stakeholders to support Latin America and Brazil.
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with comfort operating in ambiguity and early-stage product environments.
  • Clear, confident communicator with experience representing regional perspectives to senior global leadership.

Desired Qualifications
  • Multilingual capabilities relevant to the region, especially Spanish and/or Portuguese, enhancing communication with local stakeholders, partners, and vendors.
  • Demonstrated success delivering multiplatform strategies, including PC and first party console ecosystems
  • Extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment and working with working with teams across various geographies.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

  • (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $166,600.00 - $232,800.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

About Riot Games

Riot Games is a video game developer and publisher based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, and is best known for its flagship game, League of Legends. The game has become one of the most popular esports titles in the world, with millions of players and fans around the globe. Riot Games is committed to creating high-quality, immersive gaming experiences that bring people together and foster a sense of community. The company is also dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in the gaming industry, and has launched several initiatives to support underrepresented groups.
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