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Senior Game Product Manager - Unpublished Fighting Game

Product Managers lead passionate cross-functional teams to create innovative internal and external tools that unlock Riot’s ability to deliver player value. By leading engineers, you’ll drive development, smash through obstacles, and push projects across the finish-line. You’ll meet and exceed expectations by helping concept, deliver, enhance, and influence projects at every stage of production. You’ll do all of this in service of an ambitious transformation of Riot’s company infrastructure into a highly adaptable, efficient and effective machine that multiplies Riot’s ability to deliver player value.

Riot Games is seeking a Senior Game Product Manager to join the Project L team, Riot's new fighting game. As a Senior Game Product Manager, you will play a critical role in driving the success of Project L by designing, refining, and executing a compelling monetization strategy for the game. The ideal candidate for this role is comfortable navigating ambiguity and working independently, has experience designing cosmetic monetization systems, and is a collaborative leader who can work effectively across teams and disciplines. You will report to the Director of Game Product Management.

Responsibilities:

• Drive monetization strategy for Project L in collaboration with game team leadership
• Work closely with and be the product owner of content production teams to ensure that monetization opportunities are integrated seamlessly into the game's content pipeline
• Assess & prioritize the teams’ revenue strategy needs with consideration of risk, complexity level, and timing
• Use data and player feedback to inform decisions and optimize the game's monetization model
• Work closely with designers to tune progression and monetization systems that balance player sentiment with financial performance
• Analyze existing monetization best practices to make recommendations for existing teams and new pitches
• Partner with designers and product owners across the game to guide design and product strategy decisions in a way that supports player-focused monetization

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in revenue / monetization strategy-oriented product management or related fields (an MBA can account for 2 years of experience)
• 3+ years doing revenue/monetization strategy specifically in the games industry
• Experience conceptualizing, designing, and shipping a brand new monetization product, distribution mechanism, or system within the games industry
• Experience working with game teams, including designers, engineers, artists
• Experience conducting and socializing competitive analysis of game monetization design and distilling results into impactful recommendations

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience advising teams on product and game design problems by applying a combination of a broad & deep gaming background, game design craft, and product strategy thinking
• Strong familiarity with the fighting game genre
• Experience optimizing monetization for a live game
• Experience leading complex efforts with multiple collaborators

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.