Senior Manager, Technical Production - Teamfight Tactics, Core Tech

As Technical Producers at Riot, we lead passionate technical teams to create products and experiences that deliver maximum developer and player value. We guide development, clear blockers, and push projects across the finish line while making sure that our teams are sustainable and have a great collaborative environment.

As a Senior Manager, Technical Production (Initiative Delivery Lead) on Core Tech, you will lead the initiative in creating sustainable and efficient development processes to deliver upgraded tools, platform & engine features that unlock our ability to deliver more to players. You will partner with your Initiative Product Lead to drive collaboration with teams across Riot to provide stakeholders and customers with visibility on complex deliverables. Ensuring the team’s work at a sustainable pace and continuous improvement. This role will report into TFT’s Head of Delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Directly hire, manage, and grow team level producers’ craft and capabilities
• Create and drive multi-team work systems and support project wide efforts, including dependency management with multiple partner organizations across Riot involved in TFT development.
• Drive the creation of product and feature roadmaps in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, partner development organizations, and TFT leadership. Establish delivery schedules and roadmaps including release plans, milestone / phase definitions, and sprint goals.
• Create clarity and drive accuracy around the current and future status project work, reflecting reality to the team and stakeholders in an actionable way
• Drive strategic work alignment between discipline and project objectives
• Own Core Tech’s staffing strategy; communicating, negotiating & filling staffing needs
• Proactively identify issues standing in the way of success (people, product, process), provide strategies for tackling them, own their resolution and evaluate results
• Ensure psychological safety, healthy feedback culture, and conflict management within and between teams on your Initiative
• Iterate on the production processes to continuously improve our velocity, collaboration, and visibility

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of 8 years experience in software/game development as a Producer or Development Manager on medium to large technical teams
• A minimum of 4 years in a leadership position, working directly on the production of a game
• A minimum of 2 years direct people management experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience with strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organizational leadership, ability to refine technical product vision
• Experience applying Agile and Lean development processes at scale
• Experience managing development at the team-of-teams scale with 30+ developers
• Experience managing multi-organization efforts requiring success through influence and craft

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in game development or a good understanding of how artists, engineers, and game designers build assets and game features for a modern game
• Experience working with teams building engine capabilities or gameplay features
• Experience working with teams building software for backend services
• Experience working on mobile and PC platforms
• Experience working with the Unreal engine
• Familiarity with Teamfight Tactics

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.

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.

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.