Technical Product Manager, League Studios - Build, Test, Ship

Job Description

League Studio is the group within Riot Games that creates League of Legends, Wild Rift, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runeterra, along with other titles currently in development. Within League Studio, the Tech Foundations organization supports the ambitions of these games by building products that advance the League game platform and act as catalysts for innovation and efficiency across the Studio.
As a Technical Product Manager II (TPM) at Riot, you will combine technical knowledge with product leadership to provide players and game developers with essential features and supporting systems. As a TPM on the Tech Foundation's Build Test Ship Team, you will lead product strategy and roadmap for the developer experiences that power LOL and TFT. You will partner with engineering and production leaders across Riot to guide the product lifecycle from start to finish. You will define product requirements using your deep knowledge of the customer problem ensuring there is a clear value proposition and definition of success. You will report to the Sr. Director of Technical Product Management on Tech Foundations.

Responsibilities
• Own a product space that provides internal development environments and tools that enable League Studio engineers to successfully build, integrate, and playtest their products.
• Manage essential customer and partner relationships that support your product space - including game teams and central platform teams.
• Actively manage project scope as a result of customer and partner communications and ensure the product development is aligned with objectives.
• Develop and uphold service-level objectives and agreements for your product space, in collaboration all core customers and supporting organizations.
• Partnering with the other Build Test Ship team leads, foster a high velocity, high performance development tooling organization.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent. experience with strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills.
• Minimum of 3+ years of technical product management or product related experience
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience on a software development team.
• Proven ability to navigate resource constraints and deliver cost optimized, pragmatic solutions that meet customer needs.
• Proven collaboration skills that span multiple teams, departments, and disciplines to create solutions.
• Experience in product requirements, prioritization frameworks, and guiding investment strategies in people and systems.
• Experience in driving customer adoption and acceptance for products in development
Desired Qualifications
• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in products/platforms that power developer and QA experiences.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, MS Azure
• Experience with SRE, DevOps, CI/CD tools and frameworks.
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean development processes and practices.
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 focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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.
At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you're working directly on a new player-facing experience or you're supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we're better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we're looking forward to your application.

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $161,500.00 - $227,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-o1q7vp-216-73-216-111-42 in your application.