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Intern - Production

Riot Games

Los Angeles, CA 09-02-2022
 
  • Paid
  • Internship
  • Entry (0-2 years) Experience
Job Description
Production Intern (MBA)

As a Game Producer, you'll lead passionate cross-functional teams in crafting creative content and 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.

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Teamfight Tactics: As a Game Production Intern on Teamfight Tactics, you will report to a Game Producer and will support production on one or more projects during your time with us. Projects could span areas from game content production, to feature creation, to events, or even internal developer-facing projects.

You will get hands-on experience with and exposure to a broad swath of game production, from assisting with ceremonies like production discipline meetings and sprint ceremonies, to evaluating product results, leading team activities like brainstorming, communicating with stakeholders, and anything else required to ship world class features, content, and experiences to players.

Responsibilities:
• Facilitate team activities, including standups, reviews, and/or retrospectives.
• Work with Strategic Advisory to understand our target audience's needs and capture those needs into creative objectives or user stories.
• Create product briefs and presentations to lead team members on the expected product development
• Assist/shadow Game Product Managers in developing game strategies.
• Collaborate with other producers and lead to develop roadmaps and future plans for our products.
• Work with Strategic Advisory to interpret product performance results, implement learnings, and develop new experiments and features
• Shadow other game production activities, including Events delivery, Content Production, Feature Development etc.

Required Qualifications:
• Currently enrolled in an graduate program
• Available to work full-time hours for 10-12 weeks at our Los Angeles Headquarters (subject to change based on COVID-19 restrictions)
• Authorized to work in the US
• Passion about game development and monetization strategies
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Extensive knowledge of League of Legends, and/or have a deep understanding of the champions, gameplay, skins catalog, events, loot, store, event pass, or missions.

Desired Qualifications:
• Understanding or practical experience of application of Agile and Lean development process and practices
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Game Development, or a related field or equivalent experience is a plus

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will certainly be looking at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Our Perks:

Riot Internships are paid, and we offer relocation and housing support. Interns can also participate in our 401(k) plan. You can expect subsidized meals, in-game perks, and the ability to participate in our Play Fund, so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games. The University Programs team also invites you to intern focused events so you can connect with your fellow interns and Rioters to make the most out of your experience.

Applications Close January 6th 12:00pm PT

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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, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqqo91-18-190-156-80-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Riot Games

Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, we released our debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports.