Riot Games

Sr. Manager, Game Production (Meta) - Unpublished R&D Product

Riot Games$206K — $289K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience as a game producer
  • 4+ years in a leadership role on game production
  • Led teams through all game development stages: prototype to live
  • Experience in coordinating live game development operations
  • Expertise in creating meta-systems like progression and matchmaking
  • Managed large-scale development teams with over 150 developers
  • Defined strategies for scaling production capacity and quality

Responsibilities

  • Drive product and feature roadmap creation for project milestones
  • Facilitate team rituals and track project progress and dependencies
  • Provide project status updates to enable informed decision-making
  • Ensure a culture of psychological safety and constructive feedback
  • Continuously improve production processes to enhance collaboration
  • Mentor and manage other production team members

Benefits

  • Open paid time off policy for a healthy work/life balance
  • Flexible work schedules to accommodate personal needs
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and life insurance coverage
  • Parental leave for employees and their partners
  • 401k plan with company match to support financial planning
Full Job Description
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As a Senior Manager, Game Production on an unpublished R&D project, you will partner with designers and engineers to develop systems that provide meaningful progression, deep strategic choices, and rewarding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.

  • (Mercer Island only) Base salary range between $206,700.00 - $289,000.00 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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