Senior Game Product Manager - Unpublished R&D Product

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open PTO

Medical, dental, and life insurance

401k with company match

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Senior Game Product Manager in Los Angeles to lead strategic planning for core gameplay systems on an unannounced R&D project. You will own roadmaps, partner with production and analytics, and drive outcomes that align with Riot's game vision and live service approach.

The role emphasizes player empathy, cross-functional teamwork, and delivering player-centric gameplay experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience, with 3+ in Product Management or Strategy
• Deep understanding of game development and live service games business
• 3+ years leading or influencing cross-functional teams with teamwork and collaboration

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of player needs to drive vision, strategy, and roadmap for core gameplay mechanics and systems
• Collaborate with project leaders to deliver player-focused gameplay elements including progression and live ops
• Maintain audience empathy to inform strategy and opportunity spaces in competitive PvP genres
• Contribute to live operations strategy ensuring alignment with overall product plans
• Operationalize impact by aligning team efforts with holistic product strategy and production
• Partner with insights, research, and analytics to base development on data and learn from results

Skills

Product Management

Strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

First-principles thinking

Gameplay systems

Job description

Game Product Managers at Riot lead passionate teams to create and evolve products and experiences for our players. We seek to deeply understand our product's audience and drive strategy to create value for players and for Riot. We help concept, build, and influence projects at all stages of production.

As a Senior Game Product Manager on an unannounced R&D project, you will be a key product contributor for the game's core gameplay initiative. You will be responsible for defining strategic plans; working cross functionally to translate those plans into clear direction, and then operationalizing development to deliver outcomes. You will report to the Director of Game Product Management of the initiative.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of player needs and behaviors and use it to drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for core gameplay mechanics and systems in order to achieve player, product, and business impact.
• Work with project and craft leaders to deliver player-focused gameplay elements including skill and mastery progression, creative execution, match dynamics and systems, and more.
• Maintain deep audience and player empathy to inform your strategic understanding opportunity spaces, specifically in competitive PVP genres.
• Contribute to the development of the game's live operations strategy, while ensuring your team's work streams are tightly aligned with the game's plans for sustainable and best-in-class live operations.
• Operationalize your impact by ensuring your team's efforts and capabilities support the holistic product strategy, working closely with production.
• Partner tightly with central and game-team insights, research and analytics to ensure development in your area is informed hypothesis driven, supported by a wide range of player signals, and can be effectively validated and measured to inform learning and iteration.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional experience, of which 3+ is in a Product Management or Strategy role
• Deep understanding about the process of game development, the business of live service games, and how games get to market
• 3+ years experience leading or influencing cross-functional teams with excellent teamwork, team leadership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management
• Ability to solve complex and ambiguous problems using first-principles strategic thinking, generating frameworks to enable rapid and effective decision making
• Experience conceptualizing, designing, and shipping core gameplay systems
• Meaningful familiarity with several of the following crafts: Revenue Strategy, Engagement Systems, Gameplay Mechanics and Experiences, Live Service & Lifecycle Management, Analytics, and Research.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on a AAA game with global reach through development and launch
• Experience working on a live service game with significant live operations

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!

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