Producers at Riot lead passionate cross-functional teams to craft creative content and incredible experiences for our players. We guide development, remove obstacles and drive projects to completion while ensuring teams operate sustainability in a collaborative environment.
As a
Senior Manager, Game Production on an unpublished R&D project, you will partner with designers and engineers to develop systems that provide meaningful progression, deep strategic choices, and rewarding long-term engagement. You will be the custodian of strong delivery processes for Meta systems, ensuring they follow world class development practices and collaborate smoothly with other teams. You will instill confidence in stakeholders and the core development team as you track progress, deliver content/features, and support priorities and goals.
Responsibilities:- Drive the creation of product and feature roadmaps in collaboration with ICs and team leads from multiple disciplines for the next milestone / phase of the project / until launch
- Facilitate rituals, track progress and dependencies while instilling a culture of in-software results
- Provide clear and accurate visibility into project status and forecasts, enabling teams and stakeholders to make informed decisions
- Ensure psychological safety, healthy feedback culture, and conflict management within your team and between others
- Iterate on production processes to continuously improve our velocity, collaboration and visibility
- Mentor and manage other production members of the team
Required Qualifications:- 8+ years of professional experience as a game producer
- 4+ years in a leadership position, working directly on the production for games
- Experience leading teams through the entire lifecycle (prototype, discovery, delivery, live)
- Experience coordinating live games development and operations
- Deep experience in developing a wide variety of meta-systems including progression, social systems, matchmaking, etc.
- Experience managing development at the team-of-teams scale with 150+ developers, including internal and external contributors
- Experience defining external development strategies that scale production capacity while maintaining quality and creative alignment
- Experience managing multi-organization efforts requiring success through influence and craft
Desired Qualifications:- Experience with production tools like JIRA to track development and create reporting
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.
At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you're working directly on a new player-facing experience or you're supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we're better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we're looking forward to your application.
