Senior Line Producer - Esports Content Services

3 Months ago • 8-10 Years • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Line Producer at Riot Games' Esports Content Services will oversee financial and operational management for global events, regional arenas, and remote broadcast facilities. Responsibilities include budgeting, vendor management, cost negotiation, workflow improvement, and reporting. This role requires strong financial management, project management, and live event production experience. The ideal candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders to optimize production efficiency and standardization across all platforms, contributing to the strategic planning and forecasting of Riot's global production capabilities.
Must have:
  • 8+ years production/live events experience
  • 6+ years as Line Producer or equivalent
  • Strong financial management skills
  • Vendor management & partnership expertise
  • Experience with multiple budget tracking systems
  • Process improvement & operational efficiency
Good to have:
  • Production accounting or accounting experience
  • Experience with remote broadcast centers
  • Esports production environment experience
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Life insurance, parental leave
  • Retirement benefits with company match
  • Paid time off
  • Play fund

Job Details

In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends and has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world and a key driver of the dramatic growth of Esports. At the core is the Pubsports team, the group responsible for operating the major League of Legends, Valorant and other competitive international tournaments, defining global policies for the sport, driving global narratives, and providing services to our 14 different regional professional leagues across multiple products. Our vision is to spark mind-blowing cultural moments around our Games, uniting players through passion, competition, and creativity.  That’s where you come in.

Line Producers at Riot are responsible for the financial, administrative and operational management of global events, regional arenas and studios, and remote broadcast facilities ensuring alignment between budget, production execution, and strategic goals. As a Senior Line Producer within Esports Content Services, you will oversee budgeting, financial tracking, and vendor management for our live events and studio operations while also driving improvements in vendor production workflows and documentation.

Reporting to the Director of Production Finance, Esports Content Services, you will be an integral part of our remote broadcast facilities management team. You will partner with multiple stakeholders, including our global events, regional arenas and studios to allocate resources effectively, make financially informed decisions, and optimize production workflows to enhance operational efficiency and standardization across the remote broadcast centers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead forecasting, vendor management, and cost negotiations for world-wide production finance operations, ensuring efficient resource allocation and execution.
  • Develop and implement Production Finance department procedures, systems and  workflows improvements between regional and global operations. 
  • Manage financial operations of productions, managing budgets, forecasting, cost tracking, and reporting, while ensuring compliance and providing financial insights to creative and production teams across regional offices.
  • Establish, maintain, and optimize vendor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), workflows, and production documentation to drive efficiency and standardization across remote broadcast centers, global events, regional arenas and studios.
  • Oversee vendor staffing plans, contingent workforce allocation, and production scheduling to align with Riot’s operational needs and production cycles.
  • Ensure smooth day-to-day finance business operations, implementing escalation procedures to swiftly identify and resolve issues.
  • Deliver financial and operational reports to leadership, analyzing production changes and their impact on contract obligations and cost forecasts.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, production partners, and vendor leads to ensure seamless execution of remote broadcast center, global events, regional arenas and studio operations.
  • Contribution to the development of operational plans and production schedules, ensuring resources, workflows, and deliverables align with Riot Games’ service requirements.
  • Participate in strategic planning and forecasting rituals, contributing insights to improve production efficiency and financial sustainability through contingent workforce planning.
  • Actualize operational budgets while working with production accounting, and other company financial departments collaborating with all teams within Riot to ensure accuracy and tracking of expenses.
  • Facilitate the creation and submission of POs, SOWs, work orders and processing vendors through our production finance platform, global procurement, legal and vendor management systems for our remote broadcast facilities, global events, regional arenas and studios.
  • Partner with both global and regional corporate finance teams, accounts payable, procurement, purchasing, tax and legal to set up processes and workflows for contracting and paying vendors both globally and locally around the globe.
  • Partner with vendors and production partners to understand their finance and accounting workflows to determine the best practices to integrate them into our model for successful cost management. 
  • Collaborate with Riot’s accounts payable to make sure contractors and vendors are paid on time and there is Riot policy adherence.

Required Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in production and/or live events.
  • 6+ years of experience as a Line Producer or equivalent senior production role.
  • Hands-on experience as a Line Producer or Senior Production Manager, with expertise in project management and production operations for live events and live broadcast entertainment.
  • Strong financial management skills in a production environment.
  • Proven ability to develop and manage vendor partnerships, production documentation, and training programs.
  • Experience in multiple entertainment budget tracking systems, including Movie Magic, Showbiz, Xytech Media Pulse, Microsoft Excel, and Google Sheets.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements and operational efficiencies in live event production environments.

Desired Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in production.
  • 8+ years of experience in line producing.
  • Background in production accounting or experience as a production accountant.
  • Experience with remote broadcast centers and large-scale Esports production environments.
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills to optimize production execution and cost management.

This role is a key position within our Esports Content Services team, providing the opportunity to shape the future of Riot Games’ global production capabilities while ensuring financial sustainability and operational excellence.

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

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.

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

Let's Thrive Together:

Because together we are better

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. We know that fresh and varied perspectives will make us better at what we do, so however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, we’re excited to hear from you. Don’t be discouraged if you feel you don’t fully meet every single one of the requirements for a particular role, there’s always room for growth at Riot. If you spot a role that will make you want to jump out of bed in the morning, we are waiting to hear from you!

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

Let's Thrive Together:

Because together we are better

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. We know that fresh and varied perspectives will make us better at what we do, so however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, we’re excited to hear from you. Don’t be discouraged if you feel you don’t fully meet every single one of the requirements for a particular role, there’s always room for growth at Riot. If you spot a role that will make you want to jump out of bed in the morning, we are waiting to hear from you!

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