Technical Product Manager, Riot Games
League Studios, Build, Test, Ship
$161.5-227k
Plus incentive compensation + equity
Player-focused game development platform
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Player-focused game development platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$161.5-227k
Plus incentive compensation + equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most player-focused game company in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent. experience with strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills
- Minimum of 3+ years of technical product management or product related experience
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience on a software development team
- Proven ability to navigate resource constraints and deliver cost optimized, pragmatic solutions that meet customer needs
- Proven collaboration skills that span multiple teams, departments, and disciplines to create solutions
- Experience in product requirements, prioritization frameworks, and guiding investment strategies in people and systems
- Experience in driving customer adoption and acceptance for products in development
- For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!
Desirable
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience in products/platforms that power developer and QA experiences
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, MS Azure
- Experience with SRE, DevOps, CI/CD tools and frameworks
- Familiarity with Agile and Lean development processes and practices
What the job involves
- As a Technical Product Manager II (TPM) at Riot, you will combine technical knowledge with product leadership to provide players and game developers with essential features and supporting systems
- As a TPM on the Tech Foundation’s Build Test Ship Team, you will lead product strategy and roadmap for the developer experiences that power LOL and TFT
- You will partner with engineering and production leaders across Riot to guide the product lifecycle from start to finish
- You will define product requirements using your deep knowledge of the customer problem ensuring there is a clear value proposition and definition of success
- You will report to the Sr. Director of Technical Product Management on Tech Foundations
- Own a product space that provides internal development environments and tools that enable League Studio engineers to successfully build, integrate, and playtest their products
- Manage essential customer and partner relationships that support your product space - including game teams and central platform teams
- Actively manage project scope as a result of customer and partner communications and ensure the product development is aligned with objectives
- Develop and uphold service-level objectives and agreements for your product space, in collaboration all core customers and supporting organizations
- Partnering with the other Build Test Ship team leads, foster a high velocity, high performance development tooling organization
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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