Principal Game Producer

1 Day ago • 8 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Principal Game Producer, you will lead a team on an unannounced R&D project, driving the creation of product roadmaps and ensuring smooth collaboration. Responsibilities include establishing delivery schedules, tracking progress, and fostering a healthy team environment. The role involves managing project status, aligning objectives, and mentoring team members to improve processes and velocity, ensuring the project's success by collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring that the development team adheres to world-class practices. This position requires a candidate who can effectively manage and drive development within a team and ensure the delivery of high-quality content to players.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of game producer experience
  • 4+ years in a leadership position in PvE game production
  • Experience leading teams through the entire lifecycle
  • Experience coordinating live games development and operations
  • Experience managing development at a team-of-teams scale (50+ developers)
  • Experience managing multi-organization efforts requiring success through influence
Good to have:
  • Experience with production tools like JIRA
Perks:
  • Open paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

Producers at Riot lead passionate cross-functional teams to craft creative content and incredible experiences for our players. We encourage teams to collaborate and drive development, smashing through obstacles to deliver products into players’ hands. We support concepting, building and delivering content at all stages of production.

As a Principal Game Producer on an unannounced R&D project, you will lead delivery for one of our teams as well as contribute to raise standards on various processes. You will be the custodian of strong delivery processes for this specific team, ensuring they follow world class development practices and collaborate smoothly with other teams. You will instill confidence in stakeholders and the core development team as you track progress, deliver content/features, and support priorities and goals. You will report to the Director of Game Production of the game.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive the creation of product and feature roadmaps in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams and leadership. Establish delivery schedules and roadmaps including for the next milestone / phase of the project
  • Direct all team rituals and encourage team meetings and discussions
  • Create clarity and drive accuracy around the current and future status project work, reflecting the reality to the team and stakeholders in an actionable way
  • Drive strategic work alignment between discipline and project objectives
  • Keep partners consulted and informed on progress and bought in to discussions as needed for project success
  • Ensure psychological safety, healthy feedback culture, and conflict management within your team and between others
  • Iterate on the production processes to continuously improve our velocity, collaboration and visibility
  • Serve as a mentor to other production members of the team

Required Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of professional experience as a game producer
  • 4+ years in a leadership position, working directly on the production of a PvE game
  • Experience leading teams through the entire lifecycle (prototype, discovery, delivery, live)
  • Experience coordinating live games development and operations
  • 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 with production tools like JIRA to track development and create reporting

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. 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 .

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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

  • Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
  • Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
  • Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
  • Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.

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