Riot Games

Senior Game Producer - League of Legends, Alternate Play Modes

Riot Games$166K — $232K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years experience in a Production role (e.g., producer, project manager)
  • Experience managing game or content production teams
  • Proven track record in improving team work systems
  • Experience leading agile teams
  • Ability to deliver complex projects with multiple teams and stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Drive production of new and existing game modes for League of Legends
  • Lead roadmap creation and execution for the team
  • Establish work systems and facilitate rituals to support productivity
  • Develop team goals and performance metrics
  • Remove obstacles to achieve team objectives
  • Manage staffing and budget for internal and external resources
  • Oversee stakeholder management and track commitments

Benefits

  • Open paid time off policy promoting work/life balance
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave for employees and their partners
  • 401k plan with company matching contributions
Full Job Description
As a Producer, you'll lead passionate cross-functional teams in crafting creative content and incredible experiences for players around the world. By encouraging teams to collaborate, you'll drive development, smashing through obstacles and driving products into players' hands. You'll exceed expectations by helping concept, deliver, improve, and influence creative projects at every stage of production.

As a Senior Game Producer on the Alternate Play Modes Team, you'll lead a multidisciplinary team to achieve their goals by keeping projects on-track, keeping teams healthy, and keeping collaborators informed. Drawing on your experience in agile leadership, you'll build flexible development plans including milestones and deliverables. You'll also partner with fellow servant leaders to foster an open, transparent development environment. Whether it's developing new and exciting game modes for different parts of the League audience, or updating existing modes to better meet the needs of players, the Alternate Play Modes team is focused on ensuring League players find their own specific type of fun. You will report into the Sr. Gameplay Production Manager for the Alternate Play Modes team.

Responsibilities:
  • Drive Production of new and/or existing game modes on League of Legends
  • Lead the team's roadmap creation and execution
  • Set up work systems and drive the rituals and artifacts to support that work system
  • Develop team goals and efficacy metrics
  • Remove impediments to achieve team goals
  • Proactively manage staffing needs and cost; both internal and external
  • Proactively manage stakeholders and track commitments
  • Proactively identify points of risk to your products and work with your team and your peers to solve them
  • Identify and drive process improvements locally on your team and across teams you collaborate with closely
  • Partner with the Production group to build team culture and monitor team health
  • Facilitate team-wide meetings to share knowledge and review results
  • Ensure the delivery of game modes to collaborating teams and regions

Required Qualifications:
  • 6+ years experience in a Production role (i.e. - experience as a producer, product manager, project manager, program manager, or similar)
  • Experience managing game, application, or content production teams
  • Experience improving work systems for teams
  • Experience working with and leading agile teams
  • Experience delivering complex projects involving multiple teams and external vendors through teamwork, leadership, and stakeholder management

Desired Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
  • Extensive knowledge of League of Legends and its game modes
  • Experience running a live microservice for large scale applications
  • Experience working in a continuous delivery/deployment environment

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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2006

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