Principal Technical Product Manager, VALORANT Foundations

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open PTO

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

401k matching

Job summary

Riot Games seeks a Principal Technical Product Manager for VALORANT Foundations to lead cross-disciplinary initiatives that impact how developers build, release, and operate the game worldwide.

You will shape product strategy for platform areas, guide ambiguous programs to long-term success, and influence teams without formal authority while collaborating with engineering leaders and central tech partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Product Management or a related engineering field.
• Familiarity with the game development lifecycle: engines, live-ops workflows, build/toolchains.
• Proven ability to translate open-ended technical capabilities into concrete product roadmaps with milestones and success metrics.
• Track record owning platform, developer-tools, or systems products with internal customers.

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 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

Technical Product Management

Unreal Engine

Cross-functional leadership

Product roadmaps

AI tooling integration

Live-ops pipelines

Platform & developer-tools

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Unreal Engine Editor

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Riot Games seeks a Principal Technical Product Manager for VALORANT Foundations to lead cross-disciplinary initiatives that impact how developers build, release, and operate the game worldwide.

You will shape product strategy for platform areas, guide ambiguous programs to long-term success, and influence teams without formal authority while collaborating with engineering leaders and central tech partners.