Senior Game Product Manager - Unpublished R&D Product

Riot Games • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $185,200 - $258,000

About The Position

Riot Games is seeking a Senior Game Product Manager for an unpublished R&D project. The role is a key product contributor to the game’s core gameplay initiative, responsible for defining strategic plans, translating them into clear cross-functional direction, and operationalizing development to deliver outcomes. The position reports to the Director of Game Product Management of the initiative.

The successful candidate will help create and evolve player-focused game experiences by deeply understanding audience needs and behaviors. They will shape strategy and roadmaps for core gameplay mechanics and systems, contribute to live operations planning, and work closely with project and craft leaders, production, insights, research, and analytics. Success calls for craft expertise, player empathy, and a collaborative spirit focused on player delight.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of professional experience, including at least 3 years in a Product Management or Strategy role.
• Deep understanding of the game development process, the business of live service games, and how games get to market.
• At least 3 years of experience leading or influencing cross-functional teams, with strong teamwork, team leadership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to solve complex and ambiguous problems using first-principles strategic thinking and generate frameworks that enable rapid, effective decision-making.
• Deep familiarity and competency within team-based competitive PVP games.
• Experience conceptualizing, designing, and shipping core gameplay systems.
• Meaningful familiarity with several of the following crafts: Revenue Strategy, Engagement Systems, Gameplay Mechanics and Experiences, Live Service & Lifecycle Management, Analytics, and Research.
• Player empathy and a personal relationship with games.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on a AAA game with global reach through development and launch.
• Experience working on a live service game with significant live operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of player needs and behaviors and use it to drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for core gameplay mechanics and systems to achieve player, product, and business impact.
• Work with project and craft leaders to deliver player-focused gameplay elements, including skill and mastery progression, creative execution, match dynamics, and systems.
• Maintain deep audience and player empathy to inform strategic understanding of opportunity spaces, particularly in competitive PVP genres.
• Contribute to the game’s live operations strategy and ensure the team’s work streams align with plans for sustainable, best-in-class live operations.
• Ensure the team’s efforts and capabilities support the holistic product strategy, working closely with production.
• Partner with central and game-team insights, research, and analytics to ensure development is informed by hypotheses and a wide range of player signals, and can be effectively validated and measured to inform learning and iteration.

Benefits

• Open paid time off policy.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Parental leave for the employee, their spouse or domestic partner, and children.
• 401(k) with company match.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed