Game Producer II - VALORANT, Expressions
Job Id: REQ-0007908
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 Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends. 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 Game Producers at Riot, we lead passionate technical teams to create products and experiences that want to achieve maximum developer and player value. We guide development, clear blockers, and push projects across the finish line while making sure that our teams are sustainable and have a great collaborative environment.
VALORANT’s Store team is responsible for building technology and features to create best-in-class opportunities for players to express themselves and their personal flair using the content that they acquire in-game. All the store and monetization systems your team designs and builds will be “Player Focused”, which means that they will be built in a way where players choose to engage with them rather than feeling pressured to engage with them. Ideally, you have a strong interest in services and distributed systems as well as an understanding of content acquisition pipelines and inventory management. You will report to the Manager /Senior Manager for your area.
Responsibilities:
- Provide Discipline lead support to identify and prioritize backlog items.
- Work to create, prioritize and execute plans for work within project plans
- Support team by removing roadblocks and managing distractions
- Direct all team rituals and facilitate needed communication
- Quality tracking (bug count, bug velocity, subjective quality post ship)
- Reinforce product based organizational structure with discipline leadership
- Maintain integration into cross-team work for the discipline.
- Drive the delivery of team's feature work and estimations
- Ensure team's work matches overall project priorities and goals
- Provide essential product feedback and insight to the team and leadership
- Communicate team staffing needs as they arise
- Ensure optimal team health, culture, efficacy, and efficiency
- Manage relationships with supporting technical teams across Riot
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience as a Game Producer, Product Manager, or Development Manager
- 4+ years of production responsibilities with a focus on delivery and production management
- Experience shipping a game or major game content in a production role
- Experience refining technical product vision on a service/distributed systems focused team
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with a live game service
- Experience working with decentralized team management
- Experience with multiple production tools (JIRA, etc.)
- Experience working with microservices and APIs
- Experience shipping games and features across multiple platforms
- Familiarity with content acquisition, inventory management, and monetization systems
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 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.
- (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $129,200.00 - $179,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.