Principal Product Manager, Riot Games
Esports, Discover Experiences
$173.1-241.1k
+ incentive compensation + equity
Player-focused game development platform
Job no longer available
Player-focused game development platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$173.1-241.1k
+ incentive compensation + equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most player-focused game company in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience as a product manager or business leader driving strategy for large scale products
- 7+ years experience delivering multiple large scale, long duration global projects spanning multiple business units or companies
- 2+ years of management experience shipping large-scale premium products on multiple platforms with a live service component
- 2+ years of management experience growing individual contributors and building healthy, diverse, and inclusive teams
- Strong alignment to servant leadership principles and the value and importance of ensuring psychological safety, healthy feedback culture and conflict management within and between teams
Desirable
- Experience working in med-large size organizations where collaboration across organizational boundaries is critical to success
- Experience leading product management and direction with external development teams
- Management experience in game development, esports, or entertainment industries
- Passion for esports and Riot’s games
What the job involves
- This role reports to the Director of Product Management for Riot Esports Tech R&D
- In this role as the Principal Product Manager you will be focused on a variety of aspects of the product including the experiences our users go through to get started and engaged with Esports in general - homepage, navigation features being a couple of examples
- Collaborate, coordinate, and mentor a team of product managers focused on discover & navigation experiences
- Partner with the various business owners across the esports division to understand their goals, objectives and priorities, and work with your team of product managers to translate that into a product development strategy
- Develop a deep understanding of customer motivations, trends and needs in the discover and navigation experience domain domain so you can anticipate future shifts in customer needs and incorporate that into long term product design thinking
- Work closely with the design and software engineering teams to ideate, prototype, and distill the product strategy into a set of feature areas that the team will focus on
- Build relationships with product management leadership in partner organizations to ensure we have alignment on product design and user experience concepts
- Working with your team, produce detailed feature designs for experiences that we build and ultimately deliver to fans
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 over 120M 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 capitalizing on the rising popularity of esports, with the League of Legends World Championships one of the most watched events in the space.
While expanding its portfolio with new titles has played a role in Riot's evolution, the company's continued success is more firmly rooted in the enduring strength of League of Legends itself. Riot has built a vast ecosystem around the game, from its global eSports tournaments tand regional leagues to its numerous brand partnerships and sponsorships. The League of Legends World Championship in particular remains a cultural and commercial powerhouse, drawing massive viewership and sustaining global engagement. And since its acquisition by Tencent in 2011, Riot has also expanded its presence in Asia, opening new studios in Shanghai and beyond, to further strengthen its site to markets where competitive gaming and eSports are deeply embedded.
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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
- Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you as well as your spouse/domestic partner and children.
- Family Care: Life insurance, parental leave, plus short and long-term disability.
- Open Paid Time Off: In addition to holidays, a 2-week end of year break, and a 1-week mid-year break, Rioters are trusted to take the time they need throughout the year.
- Retirement: Riot matches retirement contributions so you can continue to play games long after you retire.
- Play Fund: Riot’s annual play fund allows Rioters to broaden their knowledge of the games that matter to players and the community.
- Donation Matching: Riot matches donations of time and money to nonprofits to double down on support.
Company HQ
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Brandon Beck
(Co-Founder & Co-Chairman)Prior to co-founding Riot Games in 2006, Brandon was a Management Consultant at Bain & Company.
Marc Merrill
(Co-Founder, CPO & 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.
A. Dylan Jadeja
(CEO)Dylan joined the Riot team in 2011 as CFO and COO, becoming CEO in 2023. Prior to this, he spent 7 years at Goldman Sachs as a VP and nearly 4 years at A.T. Kearney as a Senior Associate.
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