Senior Design & Construction Program Manager

Job Description

The Workplace Experience Team (WPX) at Riot is just that - Rioters' experience in the workplace. We are a diverse group of disciplines focused on how Rioters engage with our workplace. This includes Physical Security for our safety; Facilities Operations for our buildings and maintenance; Food and Events programs for daily engagement; Media Systems for our collaboration, presentations, and entertainment; and Occupancy Planning to help us understand how we occupy our world and ways to improve it.

As Senior Design & Construction Program Manager, reporting to the Senior Manager, Workplace Experience and Occupancy, you will support Workplace Experience in all of its construction needs. You will build an external team from the ground up to support uniquely challenging tenant improvement (TI) projects while overseeing multi-million dollar budgets supporting the construction effort and working with dozens of teams that provide services in the spaces you build. You'll make tough project decisions that move strategic goals into tactical execution.

Responsibilities:
• Make daily or weekly choices over the course of multiple large-scale projects
• Manage projects within constraints of time, budget, and quality in an Agile Scrum methodology
• Report on projects, offering insights to Workplace Experience, IT, and customer teams
• Organize and delegate assignment of tasks for internal project team members
• Ensure all resources are allocated and tasked
• Coordinate procurement and develop scope-of-work, bid processes, and RFPs for architects, general contractors, and systems installments
• Conduct site visits and work with partners to ensure jobs match desired goals/output
• Approve/challenge change orders or add services throughout the course of the project following project programming goals
• Oversee punch-lists and close-out procedures to ensure that vendors have achieved the program goals you've developed and set out to accomplish
• Help with project conceptualization by providing the team with expertise as it relates to possible solutions and program development

Required Qualifications:
• 7+ years experience as the chief maker of decision on office space tenant improvement projects
• Bachelor's degree in a core discipline such as Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field
• Experience holding full responsibility for spending money against multi-million dollar budgets
• Experience working with project managers, architects, general contractors, safety officials, designers, and landlords
• Knowledge of local/regional codes and ordinances that inform a building design
• Experience working with partners to understand the workplace needs that impact space planning and interior design
• Proficiency reading/interpreting construction documents, leases, and contracts

Desired Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Construction Management Real Estate Development, Business, or Architecture (with requisite development work)
• PMP, EIT, PE or Architect's License

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 the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
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 (LAMC 189.00).

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