Senior Manager, Game Production - Teamfight Tactics

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, 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!

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.

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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.

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