Executive Assistant - Central R&D Team

Job Description

As an Executive Assistant within Riot Games' R&D Studio, you will report to the Director of Production and support the full R&D Office leadership team including Directors of Engineering, Art, Design and Player Insights. The R&D Office is responsible for helping a range of teams deliver the future of Riot Games product portfolio. You will work with the R&D Office leadership team to handle the daily management of complex work-flows, including: relationship management, schedule oversight, internal team communications, logistical planning for meetings, calendaring, coordination of travel, strategic projects and serve as a representative of the R&D Office leadership team as needed.

Responsibilities:
• Manage, and track schedules and workflows, while raising risks, managing trade-offs, and eliminating blockers
• Assess the studio leadership teams current processes and adapt planning tools, methodologies, and communication channels to ensure successful, sustainable delivery of teams action items and deliverables
• Coordinate and design best approaches for meetings, ensuring upfront clarity on agenda, structure, goals and follow-up actions with proper participants
• Create and share project information to key stakeholders
• Handle confidential information that requires care in deciding what is appropriate to share and with whom for business purposes
• Drive transparency and predictability across the R&D studio to help identify and manage risks
• Contribute to change management through problem identification, planning for and designing solution scenarios, and supporting action item tracking to ensure projects are completed in a timely manner
• Maintain an inventory of critical path projects that the leadership team is especially interested in for which their awareness and involvement is essential
• Identify and take on ad-hoc projects - everything from organizing and planning multi day workshops to creating sharable riot wide portfolio planning calendar.
• Manage logistics on behalf of the R&D Office leadership team including: booking travel (hotel/airfare), arranging meals, etc.

Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of experience assisting Executive level or comparable leaders
• BA degree or equivalent experience
• Experience coordinating across multiple stakeholder groups, both internal and external partners
• Strong skill set and experience in organizing large, complex projects with multiple teams through entire life cycle – from creation to launch to maintenance
• History of and passion for developing productive working relationships with team members, colleagues and partners

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!
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, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro62y3-18-225-209-95-42 in your application.