Senior Technical Producer - Tech Research

Producers at Riot lead complex initiatives from conception through delivery, aligning teams around clear goals and enabling predictable, high-quality outcomes. In Tech Research, producers operate in a uniquely ambiguous environment - supporting exploratory technical research while ensuring clarity, sustainability, and strategic alignment.

As a Senior Technical Producer on the Tech Research team, you will own portfolio-level production across several critical AI initiatives. You will serve as the operational integrator for Tech Research, ensuring initiatives are visible, aligned, and appropriately prioritized without constraining the exploratory nature of research. You will partner closely with the Research Lead and the Director of Research Science to translate strategy into clear execution frameworks. While Senior Researchers lead scientific execution, you own the operational framework that enables their work to scale across the portfolio. You drive cross-team alignment, manage interdependencies, and ensure research progress is translated into clear, actionable insight for leadership and partner teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own the portfolio-level planning processes, operating structure, and visibility across Tech Research’s three research pillars, enabling leadership to make clear strategic decisions.
• Evolve and maintain prioritization frameworks that connect research investments to player, product, and technology impact
• Synthesize inputs from multiple research initiatives into clear roadmaps, milestone tracking, and risk reporting for leadership
• Establish and maintain structured communication pipelines between Tech Research, game teams, and partner organizations
• Support research pods with visibility, alignment, and communications while enabling senior researchers to drive weekly execution
• Facilitate technical decision-making discussions, helping teams navigate tradeoffs across differing research perspectives
• Track portfolio health, resource allocation, and sustainability signals across initiatives
• Develop lightweight systems that support experiment visibility, knowledge transfer, and reproducibility without over-constraining research velocity
• Anticipate cross-pillar dependencies and proactively surface risks, tradeoffs, and resource conflicts
• Support hiring coordination and onboarding as Tech Research scales

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of experience as a Producer, Technical Producer, or Program Manager
• Experience operating at a portfolio or multi-team level in high-uncertainty environments
• Experience synthesizing complex technical work into clear roadmaps, milestones, and leadership-ready communication
• Demonstrated success designing and applying structured prioritization frameworks
• Experience managing cross-organization communications and dependencies
• Proven ability to facilitate technical decision-making by aligning opposing viewpoints across engineers and researchers
• Familiarity with research or AI/ML workflows, including experimentation cycles, uncertainty, and technical risk

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting AI/ML research organizations
• Experience supporting high-ambiguity or start-up style teams
• Familiarity with experiment tracking, reproducibility practices, or research infrastructure systems
• Experience balancing exploratory research timelines with product-facing expectations
• Experience mentoring producers or supporting leadership development

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