Game Producer III, Core Gameplay - Unpublished R&D Product

As a Producer at Riot, you’ll support passionate, cross-functional teams in creating exciting content and experiences for our players around the world. You will encourage teams to communicate, guide development, remove roadblocks, and ultimately help drive our games into players’ hands, while making sure that our teams and workflows are healthy and sustainable.

As a Senior Producer for an R&D team, you will help steer and orchestrate feature development, and coordinate production best practices with our production and gameplay teams to help deliver the best possible products to our players. You will use your experience of strong project management fundamentals, and broad knowledge of the game development process to support the product’s holistic vision. You will report to the Operations Director of the project.

Responsibilities

• Operations leadership for multiple teams and pods working on a diverse set of problem areas. The primary focus area being deep technical challenges. 
• Contribute to a healthy development framework by shepherding team and sprint rituals, running retrospectives, and advocating for iterative process improvements
• Build awareness around project goals, schedules, and milestones across the team
• Update and maintain documentation for scope and processes
• Encourage collaboration between team members and contribute to a positive work environment
• Monitor team health and work with team leads to cultivate good morale and productivity
• Work closely with technology teams to plan, cost, and implement features and content, ensuring clear goals are outlined for milestones and realized during development
• Identify and resolve roadblocks to unlock developers and help them achieve established goals

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing games as a producer on technical teams 
• 4+ years of experience using Agile methodologies
• 2+ years of experience guiding a R&D project through the different phases of development from Pre-production to Production to Live.
• Experience shipping multiple games with production responsibility on important features and content
• Expertise with various project management frameworks (Scrum / Agile) and real-world experience leveraging them in a collaborative team setting
• Experience with project management software such as Jira or MS Project

Desired Qualifications

• A passion for solving operational and logistical problems
• Experience working with game developers to create and scale repeatable game content pipelines, and knowledge of modern game art and design pipelines

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is 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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.