Senior Game Producer - League of Legends, Alternate Play Modes

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.

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.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data

• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors

• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks

• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.