Senior Manager, Technical Product Management - League of Legends

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Research & Development • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Manager, Technical Product Management (TPM) at Riot Games, you'll lead the vision and strategy for reimagining the League of Legends PC around-game experience. Responsibilities include defining roadmaps, managing a team of TPMs, collaborating with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Art, Design, etc.), and ensuring alignment with Riot's goals. You'll be accountable for new player retention, engagement, and monetization, while managing technical complexities and communicating tradeoffs effectively. The role demands strong leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills within a live-service game environment.
Must have:
  • 8+ years TPM/Program Management experience
  • 4+ years team leadership experience
  • Live-service game product leadership experience
  • Collaboration with creative disciplines
  • 0-1 product creation in ambiguous spaces
  • Excellent teamwork and communication
Good to have:
  • Player acquisition & retention expertise
  • Free-to-play monetization experience
  • Experience with proprietary game engines
  • Game engine tooling experience (UI, animation, etc.)
Perks:
  • Open paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

Riot’s mission is to put players at the center of everything we do.  We do this by continuing to evolve and deliver new experiences to players with games like Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot is also expanding into the world of music/multimedia with the release of our animated series Arcane and music from KDA and True Damage.  In short - it’s an exciting time to be a Rioter.

As a Sr. Manager, Technical Product Management (TPM) at Riot, you will leverage your product management experience paired with your knowledge of game development to provide players with essential features and supporting systems. As a Sr. Manager TPM for League of Legends PC within League Studio, you will set the direction and vision to reimagine the around game experience for League of Legends PC. You will direct efforts to build exciting and approachable navigation, progression, social, identity, and shopping experiences. You will be accountable for new player retention improvement efforts, as well as improving engagement and monetization of existing players. You will manage a team of TPMs working on specific areas of the League of Legends PC around game experience. 

Responsibilities:

  • Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for your team
  • Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, adeptly anticipating future challenges and orchestrating multi-team responses to meet the evolving needs of our players and development teams located throughout the world
  • Manage technical complexity, validating requirements and designs for cross-discipline projects, and communicating technical tradeoffs to a non-technical audience
  • Partner and collaborate with Engineering, Production, Art, Design, Quality, and Insights to align on the product and technical plans and ensure that the products are aligned with League of Legends’ and Riot’s goals
  • Manage relationships with partners, stakeholders and customers, in addition to direct management over other TPM’s
  • Develop and oversee product metrics and goals for your team, as well as SLAs with partner teams

Required Qualifications

  • A minimum of 8 years of technical product management or program management experience
  • A minimum of 4 years of leadership experience managing and building healthy, diverse, and inclusive teams
  • Experience leading product for at least one live-service game release on any platform
  • Experience working directly with creative disciplines and content creators
  • Experience creating 0-1 products in ambiguous product spaces
  • Excellent teamwork, team leadership, communication, and stakeholder management
  • Aligned to servant leadership principles and the value and importance of ensuring psychological safety, healthy feedback culture and conflict management within and between teams
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience with strong technical knowledge

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience with player acquisition and retention methodologies
  • Experience with free-to-play game monetization systems
  • Experience with proprietary game engines
  • Experience with game engine tooling (e.g. UI, animation, 3d scene, audio)

 

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 focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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 for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the and . 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 and our ongoing work to build the .

 

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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