Senior Manager, Production - Wild Rift, Personalization

Job Description

Senior Managers in Production at Riot lead passionate cross-functional teams in crafting creative content and incredible experiences for players around the world. By encouraging teams to collaborate, we drive development, smashing through obstacles and driving products into players' hands. Senior Managers in Production exceed expectations by helping concept, deliver, improve, and influence creative projects at every stage of production, while overseeing Managers of Production on the tactical side.

As a Senior Manager in Production on League of Legends: Wild Rift's Personalization Initiative, you'll report into the Senior Director Of Operations on Wild Rift. As the initiative delivery lead for the team, you will deliver on art content and features such as Champions, skins, turntables, events, and goodies. As well as the experiences for players to receive the aforementioned content. You will ensure your team places a high value on delivering the product using sustainable development practices, maintaining the health of the team. You will also ensure high-collaboration with our international development partners and manage other Managers in Production on your team.

Responsibilities:
• Develop sustainable production work systems (rituals and artifacts) to ensure work is on track and plugs into product-level systems such as the roadmap or product backlog
• Provide accurate visibility on the status and health of the production pipeline and highlight shortfalls or risks, and other forms of escalation with stakeholders
• Manage and mentor direct reports to achieve excellence as delivery leads within the Personalization initiative
• Continuously improve team health by identifying opportunities to define and refine how we work as a team
• Collaborate with external partners on production planning to ensure priorities are clear and hold teams accountable to deliver scheduled commitments

Required Qualifications:
• Minimum of 6 years of working in game development, with experience in the full game development life cycle using a variety of development methodologies (Scrum, Lean, Waterfall, etc)
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a direct manager for production staff
• Systems-based thinking, with a willingness to invest time to understand root cause analysis
• Strong negotiation skills, with a mix of patience and goal orientation to navigate complex cultural, technology and product requirements
• Relationship management, project management, and collaboration capability
• Deep knowledge of games, relevant gaming audiences, and the gaming industry

Desired Qualifications:
• Background in art (2D assets, 3D models, Rigging, Animation, VFX) or experience specifically working on art content teams
• Background in Mobile / Live Games is a plus
• Fluency in Mandarin is a plus but not required

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:

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 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).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp0xno-3-144-250-169-42 in your application.