Senior Game Product Manager, Riot Games
League of Legends
$185.2-258k
+ Incentive compensation + Equity
Player-focused game development platform
Open for applications
Player-focused game development platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185.2-258k
+ Incentive compensation + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most player-focused game company in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Riot Games has grown into one of the world’s most prominent online and mobile game developers, due in large part to the success of its 2009 flagship title League of Legends which hosts just under seventy million users every month.
Riot is riding the wave of online gaming growth, having made a well timed switch from PC-only into mobile-based gaming, as capitalising on the rising popularity of esports, with the League of Legends World Championships one of the most watched events in the space.
However, adding further titles to its resume will be key to building on its success, as League of Legends was its only offering for the best part of a decade. Since being acquired by Chinese tech giant Tencent in 2011, the company has grown significantly in Asian markets, opening its Shanghai Game Studio in 2021 and expanding its China Game Studio Group in 2022. These two hubs will help Riot Games make further inroads in a country where PC gaming is already huge and continues to grow.
Regardless of League of Legends' success both online and in live arenas, the company nevertheless experienced a round of layoffs internationally that amounted to 11% of its workforce. Pair that with legal troubles in 2024 concerning the company’s partnership with now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, and Riot Games appears to be in a period of transition. Thanks to the strength of its gaming products, however, Riot will no doubt maintain a comfortable position within the gaming world.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2009
$8m
SERIES C
Jul 2008
$7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
- Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available
- Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations
- Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games
Company HQ
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Brandon Beck
(Co-Chairman)Having studied at the University of Southern California, they worked as a Management Consultant at Bain & Company. they left this role in September 2006 to co-found Riot Games, where they served initially as co-CEO.
Marc Merrill
(Co-Chairman)After a degree at the University of Southern California, they worked as a U.S. Bank Analyst and a Manager of Advanstar Communications. They co-founded Riot Games with Brandon in September 2006, alongside being a Principal of NaHCo3 since 2016.
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