Principal Tech PM, VALORANT Foundations

Riot Games; Mercer Island (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

401k match

Open PTO policy

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Riot Games in the United States is hiring a Principal Technical Product Manager for VALORANT Foundations to identify high-impact opportunities and lead delivery across platforms, pipelines, developer tools, engine capabilities and core backend services.

You will work with engineering leads, game teams, and central tech partners to drive faster development workflows, more predictable releases, and AI-augmented tooling that improves both developer experience and player outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Product Management or a related engineering/technical field.
• Familiarity with the game development lifecycle: engines, art/build toolchains, live-ops workflows
• Proven ability to operate at a Principal level, navigating organizational complexity to drive outcomes without direct authority
• Strong technical background (CS degree or equivalent experience) sufficient to credibly debate tradeoffs with engineering leads
• Experience translating open-ended or ambiguous technical capabilities into concrete product roadmaps with defined milestones and success metrics
• Track record owning platform, developer-tools, or systems products with internal customers
• Experience integrating agentic AI tooling into the product-management craft, using agents to shorten the loop from insight to execution

Responsibilities

• Define and align product strategy for critical, cross-cutting platform areas, prioritizing outcomes that create measurable value for developers and players
• Bring strategic structure and clarity to Foundations' hardest, most ambiguous initiatives so they're set up for long-term success
• Lead cross-functional teams through influence, bridging engineering reality and product requirements, and driving decisions to closure across the groups that own build and release pipelines, the developer inner loop and editor, engine capabilities, and core backend services, all without direct authority
• Serve as a strategic proxy for Foundations leadership, stepping in with autonomy to own high-stakes opportunities end to end
• Partner deeply with engineering leads to ensure platform solutions are robust, scalable, and seamlessly integrated into developer workflows
• Broker across the seam with central tech team partners, representing VALORANT's needs into shared platforms and negotiating what's owned where
• Translate empathy for internal developers into infrastructure and tooling that solves genuine pain points; champion data-informed decisions
• Champion AI-augmented ways of working: bring agentic tooling into the PM craft to compress cycle time and model what modern product management looks like for Foundations

Skills

Strategic product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical depth

AI tooling integration

Platform roadmaps

Developer experience

Communication with engineers

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Job description

Riot Games in the United States is hiring a Principal Technical Product Manager for VALORANT Foundations to identify high-impact opportunities and lead delivery across platforms, pipelines, developer tools, engine capabilities and core backend services.

You will work with engineering leads, game teams, and central tech partners to drive faster development workflows, more predictable releases, and AI-augmented tooling that improves both developer experience and player outcomes.