Senior Manager, Technical Production - Teamfight Tactics, Core Tech - Riot Games

As Technical Producers at Riot, we lead passionate technical teams to create products and experiences that deliver maximum developer and player value. We guide development, clear blockers, and push projects across the finish line while making sure that our teams are sustainable and have a great collaborative environment.

As a Senior Manager, Technical Production (Initiative Delivery Lead) on Core Tech, you will lead the initiative in creating sustainable and efficient development processes to deliver upgraded tools, platform & engine features that unlock our ability to deliver more to players. You will partner with your Initiative Product Lead to drive collaboration with teams across Riot to provide stakeholders and customers with visibility on complex deliverables, ensuring the team’s work at a sustainable pace and continuous improvement. This role will report into TFT’s Head of Delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Directly hire, manage, and grow team level producers’ craft and capabilities.
• Create and drive multi-team work systems and support project wide efforts, including dependency management with multiple partner organizations across Riot involved in TFT development.
• Drive the creation of product and feature roadmaps in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, partner development organizations, and TFT leadership. Establish delivery schedules and roadmaps including release plans, milestone / phase definitions, and sprint goals.
• Create clarity and drive accuracy around the current and future status project work, reflecting reality to the team and stakeholders in an actionable way.
• Drive strategic work alignment between discipline and project objectives.
• Own Core Tech’s staffing strategy; communicating, negotiating & filling staffing needs.
• Proactively identify issues standing in the way of success (people, product, process), provide strategies for tackling them, own their resolution and evaluate results.
• Ensure psychological safety, healthy feedback culture, and conflict management within and between teams on your Initiative.
• Iterate on the production processes to continuously improve our velocity, collaboration, and visibility.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of 8 years experience in software/game development as a Producer or Development Manager on medium to large technical teams.
• A minimum of 4 years in a leadership position, working directly on the production of a game.
• A minimum of 2 years direct people management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience with strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational leadership, ability to refine technical product vision.
• Experience applying Agile and Lean development processes at scale.
• Experience managing development at the team-of-teams scale with 30+ developers.
• Experience managing multi-organization efforts requiring success through influence and craft.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in game development or a good understanding of how artists, engineers, and game designers build assets and game features for a modern game.
• Experience working with teams building engine capabilities or gameplay features.
• Experience working with teams building software for backend services.
• Experience working on mobile and PC platforms.
• Experience working with the Unreal engine.
• Familiarity with Teamfight Tactics.

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!