Senior Technical Producer

Job Description

Senior Technical Producer - Unpublished Fighting Game

Technical Producers guide teams in creating player value through agile work systems and practices. While driving internal alignment and accountability for teams and development organizations, we focus on continuous improvement. We're interlaced on teams throughout the entire company, coordinating across different products and regions as we share goals, insights, and standard methodologies. It is through this communal learning, and sharing of information that we can help lead teams across Riot to delivery excellence.

As a Senior Technical Producer on Project L's Build, Readiness, and Shared Technology (BuRST) team, you will work with a set of technologists, representing a broad set of disciplines, to deliver technology products and services that help the game development team move faster and do more, with higher confidence. The technical foundations team of Project L, BuRST, provides build, testing, and release automation tools, data engineering services, and solutioning around cross-cutting technical problems faced by the game developers. Given the technical nature of the group's work, a successful candidate combines a technical background with a broad production methodology toolkit. You will report to the Production Manager, who reports into the Sr. Director of Operations.

Responsibilities:
• Oversee technology progress for the Build, Readiness, Shared Tech (BuRST) team
• Provide vision, roadmap, and delivery leadership for development efficiency and technical readiness of the project
• Work closely with other product leadership, providing transparency around any risks that could affect delivery schedule or development velocity
• Track engineering progress against ideal production roadmap towards product launch
• Partner with the general technology team for prioritization and dependency resolution across multiple teams

Required Qualifications:
• 6+ years of professional experience developing games as a technical producer or engineer
• 4+ years of professional experience using Agile methodologies
• Professional experience being part of a game development team from production to launch
• Experience managing competing priorities to deliver the right value for customers
• Strong communication skills that enable long term, sustained, healthy relationships
• Experience working on a technical team delivering products and services to other developers

Desired Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience with strong technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and understanding of basic programming concepts
• Experience developing live service games
• Development experience for previous or current gen console environments.
• Development experience with UE5
• Familiarity with game DevOps problems - CI/CT/CD of game clients and services, internal and external release management, multiregional and multilingual deployments, live service delivery pipelines
• Experience supporting distributed development teams (both leading such a team, and having such a team as your customer)
• Experience working with data engineering, analysis, and science functions

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 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.
• (Redwood City only) Base salary range between $189,600.00 - $264,100.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
• (Bellevue only) Base salary range between $173,100.00 - $241,100.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $173,100.00 - $241,100.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

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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