Job Description

Technical Product Managers at Riot combine deep technical knowledge and experience with product leadership capabilities to enable Riot to deliver key products and supporting systems to players.

As a Technical Product Manager II for the Tech Vertical: Server team, you will develop technical foundations, processes and tools that help deliver the League of Legends: Wild Rift experience to mobile players on a global scale.You will partner with Tencent and Riot stakeholders to ensure that we’re making excellent decisions for players in order to enable a global launch, sustainable global operations and a cross platform future. You will report into the Product Lead of Wild Rift’s Tech Vertical initiative(TV).

This role will require occasional travel to China.

Responsibilities:

Lead and manage process for the TV: Server team
Define and drive a strategy and roadmap for the TV: Server team, taking into account product and technical compromises between multiple teams
Deliver on roadmap collaboratively with teams across Riot and Tencent in both LA and China
Own the problem space of cross initiative server technology on Wild Rift
Collaborate with technical subject matter experts to drive best practices in the technology that is built and the software development lifecycle
Define and run rituals across Riot and Tencent to ensure clear quality bars are set and technical goals are met
Manage and inform stakeholders in both Riot and Tencent

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience developing and operating a live game service
Excellent teamwork, team leadership, and communication
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Broad understanding of operational and development challenges
Worked with and led agile teams
Engineering background, particularly in services, operations, or infrastructure

Desired Qualifications:

Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure Operations or SRE
Experience with systems/services that operate at global scale
Mandarin fluency is a plus
Experience working with geographically remote teams
Experience with mobile platforms, consoles, and/or Unity

Valid through: 3/19/2021

About Riot Games

Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in West Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in September 2006 to develop League of Legends, a multiplayer online battle arena game. Since its release in 2009, the company has produced several spin-offs in the same franchise. For the game, Riot Games operates 14 esports leagues internationally, and the League of Legends World Championship. As of May 2018, Riot Games had 24 offices across the world and employs around 2,500 staff. Since 2011, Riot has been a subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate Tencent. Riot has received criticism for allegations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace and, consequently, for its use of forced arbitration in disputes.

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