Senior Manager, Game Production - TFT
Responsibilities :
- Directly hire, manage, and grow team level producers’ for craft and capabilities
- Create and drive multi-team work systems and support project wide efforts, including dependency management with multiple partner organizations across Riot involved in TFT development.
- Drive the creation of product and feature roadmaps in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, partner development organizations, and TFT leadership.
Establish delivery schedules and roadmaps including release plans, milestone / phase definitions, and sprint goals.
- Create clarity and drive accuracy around the current and future status of the project, reflecting reality to the team and stakeholders in an actionable way
- Drive strategic work alignment between discipline and project objectives
- Create a staffing plan for each phase of the project, communicating and negotiating staffing needs as they arise
- Proactively identify issues standing in the way of success (people, product, process), provide strategies for tackling them, own their resolution and evaluate results
- Ensure psychological safety, healthy feedback culture, and conflict management within and between teams on your Initiative
- Iterate on the production processes to continuously improve our velocity, collaboration, and visibility
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years experience in software / game development
- 4+ years in a leadership position, working directly on the production of a game
- 2+ years direct people management experience
- Experience leading teams through feature development (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)
- Experience managing development at the team-of-teams scale with 50+ developers
- Experience managing multi-organization efforts requiring success through influence and craft
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working mobile and PC platforms
- Experience working with the Unreal engine
- Experience building out a new team from scratch
- Experience managing co-development or outsourcing relationships
- Familiarity with Teamfight Tactics
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and collaboration that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work.
Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!
Our Perks :
Riot has a focus on work / life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to 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.
Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $196,900.00 - $275,200.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
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, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).
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