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 Chemtech Platform Build Test Ship Team, you will lead product strategy and roadmap for the developer infrastructure team that powers LOL and TFT. This team encompasses the dev environments, build and deploy tools, release and quality frameworks processes that empowers both game and services developers for the Studio. 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 Senior Manager of Technical Product Management on Chemtech Platform.

Responsibilities:

• Own a product space that provides internal development environments and release capabilities that enable League Studio game developers to successfully ship their products
• Manage essential customer and partner relationships, including game teams and central platform teams that support your product space
• 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

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 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.