Senior Game Product Manager - League of Legends, Around Game

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Senior Game Product Manager for League of Legends to lead cross-functional teams in enhancing player experiences. This role involves defining product vision, leveraging player data, and collaborating with various disciplines to improve engagement and monetization. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in gaming product management and a passion for player-centric solutions.

Benefits

Open paid time off policy

Flexible work schedules

Medical, dental, and life insurance

401k with company match

Parental leave

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of product management experience in gaming.
• Experience leading product for at least one live-service game.
• Experience with monetization systems and player acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision and strategy for product ownership.
• Leverage player data to improve engagement and retention.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver player experiences.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Education

MBA or advanced degrees in relevant fields

Job description

Senior Game Product Manager - League of Legends, Around Game

Job Id: REQ-0008609

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.

As a Senior Game Product Manager at Riot, you will leverage your product management experience paired with your knowledge of game development to provide players with essential features and supporting systems. As a Senior Game PM for League of Legends within League Studio, you will set the direction and vision to reimagine key elements of the around game experience for League of Legends. You will direct efforts to build exciting and approachable navigation, progression, social, identity, and shopping experiences. You will be accountable for new player retention improvement efforts, as well as improving engagement and monetization of existing players. You will work with a cross-discipline team of designers, artists, engineers, researchers, and more to bring exciting new experiences to life for our players.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for your areas of product ownership within the League PC around game experience
• Leverage player data, user research, and game design best practices to identify and solve player pain points to improve player engagement, retention, and monetization
• Partner and collaborate with Engineering, Production, Art, Design, Quality, and Insights to deliver around game experiences that delight players and that are aligned with League of Legends’ and Riot’s goals
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, adeptly anticipating future challenges and orchestrating cross-discipline responses to meet the evolving needs of our players and development teams located throughout the world
• Manage cross-organizational relationships with partners, stakeholders, and customers

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in product management for a gaming company
• Experience leading product for at least one live-service game release on any platform
• Experience working directly with creative disciplines and content creators
• Experience using data to aid in conceptualizing, designing, and shipping a monetization product, distribution mechanism, or metagame system
• Excellent teamwork, team leadership, communication, and stakeholder management
• Aligned to servant leadership principles and the value and importance of ensuring psychological safety, healthy feedback culture and conflict management within and between teams

Desired Qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degrees in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics
• Experience with player acquisition and retention methodologies
• Experience with free-to-play game monetization systems

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code . Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming .

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 SanFrancisco 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.

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $185,200.00 - $258,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.