Senior Technical Product Manager, League Studios - Release Engineering & Developer Experience

As a Product Manager, you’ll 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.

League Studio is the entity within Riot Games that makes League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runterra, and Wild Rift along with other games in development. To support the aspirations of these games, the Studio makes significant investments in developing and advancing the League game platform through the Tech Foundations team. Chemtech Platform is an organization within Tech Foundations that develops back-end services, environments, and release systems for League of Legends (LOL) and Teamfight Tactics (TFT).

As a Technical Product Manager III (TPM) at Riot, you will combine technical knowledge with product leadership to provide players and game developers with essential features and supporting systems. As a TPM on the Tech Foundation’s Build Test Ship Team, you will lead global product strategy and roadmap for the release systems and quality frameworks that power LOL and TFT. You will partner with engineering and production leaders across Riot to guide the product lifecycle from start to finish. You will define product requirements using your deep knowledge of the customer problem ensuring there is a clear value proposition and definition of success. You will report to the Sr. Director of Technical Product Management on Tech Foundations.

Responsibilities:

• Own a product space that provides release capabilities and quality systems that enable League Studio game developers to successfully ship their products globally
• Manage essential customer and partner relationships that support  your product space - including game teams, Tencent, and central platform teams
• Actively manage project scope as a result of customer and partner communications and ensure the product development is aligned with objectives
• Develop and uphold service-level objectives and agreements for your product space, in collaboration all core customers and supporting organizations
• Partnering with the other Build Test Ship team leads, foster a high velocity, high performance development tooling organization

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent. experience with strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills.
• Minimum of 6+ years of technical product management or product related experience.
• Proven ability to navigate resource constraints and deliver cost optimized, pragmatic solutions that meet customer needs.
• Proven collaboration skills that span multiple teams, departments, and disciplines to create solutions.
• Experience in product requirements, prioritization frameworks, and guiding investment strategies in people and systems.
• Experience in driving customer adoption and acceptance for products in development
• Fluent in Mandarin

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in products/platforms that power developer and QA experiences
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, MS Azure
• Experience with SRE, DevOps, CI/CD tools and frameworks
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean development processes and practices

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