Principal Game Producer

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That's where you come in.

As a Principal Game Producer in Game Production based out of Riot’s Shanghai studio, you’ll lead passionate cross-functional teams in crafting incredible experiences for players around the world. By encouraging teams to collaborate, you’ll drive development, smashing through obstacles and driving products into players’ hands. You’ll exceed expectations by helping concept, deliver, improve, and influence creative projects at every stage of production.

As a Principal Game Producer in Game Production on League of Legends: Wild Rift, you’ll report into the Director Of Operations on Wild Rift. You will be one of the most senior producers that will initiate, execute and maintain solutions to solve complex production challenges across the game. You will be one of the key contributors to set up production infrastructure for Wild Rift.

Your work may involve travel to Los Angeles and Shenzhen China.

As a Rioter in China, you'll join a team of internationally and culturally diverse professionals that share our prioritization of player experience, rejection of convention and maniacal passion for gaming. 

To reinforce Riot’s collaborative culture in our China offices, we’ve decided to do away with the constraints of traditional hierarchical title structures that are more common in the region. Titles don’t really matter at any of Riot’s offices, but we chose to take this extra step in our China offices to foster a space where teamwork thrives. We believe that removing this constraint will promote individual autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and a focus on results. We promise you won’t need a title at Riot to make an impact.

Responsibilities:

• Set the standard for the production discipline on Wild Rift in the Shanghai Studio, including delivery craft, Riot Values, team health.
• Provide accurate visibility on the status and health of the production pipeline and highlight shortfalls or risks, and other forms of escalation with stakeholders.
• Accountable for developing and executing production craft improvements across feature teams.
• Create efficient work systems and communication systems for project managing remote Chinese co-developers and Riot Los Angeles product owners.
• Coordinate and collaborate with Riot Los Angeles & Chinese developers on production planning to ensure priorities are clear and hold teams accountable to deliver scheduled commitments. 

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years of production leadership experience in a dynamic large team cross discipline game development dynamic environment. 
• 7+ years of game development leadership experience with at least 2+ years in a leadership role shipping games (Principal / Lead Producer, Production Director, Head of Production, Operations Lead, etc.)
• Systems-based thinking, with a willingness to invest time to understand root cause analysis.
• Experience leading and functioning in ambiguous, collaborative environments with team members of several levels and disciplines.
• Ability to manage change across teams, organizations, and cultures.
• Business Fluency in English & Mandarin.

Desired Qualifications:

• Passion for and knowledge of League of Legends game and IP.
• Genre affinity for games in the mobile free-to-play space, especially MOBAs.
• Ability to teach teammates to practically apply software development methodologies (Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, etc) to game development.

Don’t forget to include a resume and cover letter. We receive a lot of applications, but we’ll notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you take play seriously.

Our Perks:

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.