Principal Producer, VALORANT - Core Leadership

1 Month ago • 9 Years + • $206,700 PA - $289,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As VALORANT's Principal Producer, you will lead initiatives and execute solutions for integrated, complex production needs. You will be the catalyst for strong partnerships across various disciplines and crucial to elevating the game for players. Responsibilities include leading game production, resolving development challenges, driving production craft improvements, and ensuring stakeholders are up-to-date. The role demands strong leadership, solution-oriented thinking, and the ability to drive efficiency and accountability. The candidate will work in a dynamic large team environment.
Must have:
  • 9+ years of production leadership experience in game development.
  • 7+ years of game development leadership experience.
  • 5+ years of direct or indirect management experience.
  • Deep knowledge of games and gaming industry.
  • Experience leading in ambiguous collaborative environments.
  • Experience with product management and prioritization schemes.
  • Ability to balance project and company strategy.
  • Experience translating product vision into production planning.
Good to have:
  • 4+ years of experience in a leadership role of a live-service shooter.
  • Passion for and knowledge of the Valorant game and IP.
  • Experience building cross-disciplinary teams.
  • Experience managing other managers/principals.
  • Experience in live service and frequent release environment.
Perks:
  • Open paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT - click here!). As we grow as a multi-platform game, we need a Principal Production role to manage and drive the day to day production and development needed to meet the demands of our live game players’ experiences.

As VALORANT’s Principal Producer, you’ll be one of the most senior production leaders on VALORANT. You’ll lead initiatives and execute solutions for  integrated, complex production needs across the game. In this role, you will be the catalyst for strong partnerships between all of our critical discipline connections within VAL tac. The VALORANT Principal Producer is critical to the way we leverage the production craft across the Game organization and provides practical solutions that allow us to elevate the game for our players.

Responsibilities

Leadership

  • Champion and lead game production progress and critical game development challenge resolution across Teams and Areas
  • Can help lead a team of producers and ensure elevated production craft excellence with systems and rituals. Will identify and model senior craft competencies and behaviors. Be able to evaluate needed evolution of VALORANT Game process, roles, and responsibilities with healthy change management principles and trusted advanced communication skills

Solutions 

  • Accelerate and lead VALORANT’s teams to mutually beneficial production outcomes. Align both strategy and delivery to ensure progress towards the goals of the product.
  • Leverage high-level systems thinking to identify critical path issues, remove roadblocks,  propose and enact effective and timely stable solutions, and drive efficiency and accountability in execution

Production

  • Accountable for developing and executing production craft improvements across the live game team, with focus on leadership and integration
  • Hold game teams accountable to–and provide support in–making decisions, meeting commitments, and adding acceleration and focus when needed

Integration and Communication

  • Recommend and create systems that act as integration point between key senior production lead and VALORANT program needs
  • Ensure internal stakeholders are appropriately up-to-date on current production overviews, team impacts, active connected projects, and relevant areas of responsibility

Required Qualifications

  • 9+ years of production leadership experience in a dynamic large team cross discipline game or software 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.)
  • 5+ years of direct or indirect management experience
  • Deep knowledge of games, relevant gaming audiences, and the gaming industry
  • Experience leading and functioning in ambiguous, collaborative environments with team members of several levels and disciplines
  • Experience maintaining excellent relationships with various stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability in product management and using prioritization schemes
  • Experience translating product vision into production planning and executional leadership
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully balance project strategy considerations with company strategy considerations

Desired Qualifications

  • Substantial experience (4+ years) in a leadership role of a large (top 5), live-service shooter product
  • Passion for and knowledge of the Valorant game and IP
  • Experience building and leading cross-disciplinary teams responsible for games from pre-production to shipping
  • Experience managing other managers and/or principals
  • Experience leading a successful game in a live service and frequent release environment

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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