Senior Technical Producer - Central Technology, Infrastructure Platform

Riot Games•Los Angeles, CA

7d•$185,200 - $258,000

About The Position

As a Technical Producer at Riot, you lead technical teams to create products and experiences that deliver value to developers, operators, and players. You guide development, remove blockers, and help projects reach completion while supporting sustainable, collaborative teams. As a Senior Technical Producer on the Infrastructure Platform team, you drive direction and delivery for platforms used across Riot, including regional live-game services, internal tools, and a growing range of workloads. You help determine how platforms should evolve to serve emerging and underserved use cases, partnering closely with Infrastructure engineering leads and teams across Riot that depend on these platforms. Success in this role comes through craft expertise, collaboration, and decisions that prioritize Rioters as customers. A dedicated interest in games is not required. The position is part of Riot’s collaborative, player-focused organization. Job duties may evolve based on business needs, and additional responsibilities may be assigned to maintain operational efficiency and security.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience as a Technical Producer, Technical Product Manager, Development Manager, or in a relevant role on medium to large technical teams.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience applying Agile and Lean development processes at scale and adapting a broad range of development processes to the context.
Experience independently leading complex technical programs or projects involving multiple teams, diverse stakeholders, or dependencies.
Broad understanding of technical systems across multiple related areas and ability to identify and articulate solutions and their trade-offs.
Experience defining product strategy, success metrics, and roadmap priorities for technical platforms, internal tools, or operational capabilities.
Ability to understand technical requirements and how technical choices affect reliability, operations, and developer and player experience.
Strong understanding of product management and ability to balance technical, developer, and delivery constraints.
Ability to set product and technical requirements within a defined space and evaluate designs or architecture against those requirements.
Experience owning a roadmap, product plan, or execution plan through multiple stages of the product lifecycle, including launch and post-launch improvement.
Ability to communicate complex topics clearly to audiences with little or no context.
Proficiency with Jira.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Atlassian tools, including Jira Product Discovery and Jira Plans.
Experience building business cases and funding requests for technical investment.
Experience with infrastructure, cloud, developer tooling, or live-service products.
Experience improving developer productivity, operational quality, or self-service for a central platform.
Experience applying data, experimentation, automation, or AI-enabled workflows to deliver customer value or improve efficiency.
Experience working across infrastructure and game teams in a globally distributed, high-scale, or live-service environment.

Responsibilities

Partner with engineering managers and technical leads to develop the technical product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the assigned area.
Own product requirements, defining what to build, success criteria, and how success will be measured.
Work with engineering to evaluate designs against user needs, assess trade-offs, and pressure-test implementations.
Manage delivery plans, risks, blockers, dependencies, and trade-offs, while maintaining clear stakeholder communication.
Lead the breakdown and execution of multi-month efforts spanning multiple teams within an initiative.
Help teams improve work systems, practices, delivery rituals, and goal setting; strengthen product feedback loops to improve decision-making, delivery predictability, and customer experience.
Coordinate or facilitate day-to-day team rituals when needed within the assigned scope.
Assess team health, composition, and capacity to ensure the team is set up for success.
Drive technical trade-offs with technical leaders and explain and advocate for those decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
Serve as a key customer contact within the assigned scope, understand customer needs, and coordinate intake of new work.
Prioritize customer requests with relevant engineering and technical leads.
Maintain an integrated view of delivery status across the assigned scope, track progress against goals and milestones, and contribute to consolidated stakeholder reporting tailored to the audience and reporting needs.
Use customer feedback, product signals, test results, and operational data to validate problems and set priorities.
Monitor product and service health, including user experience, cost, usage, performance, and operational effort, and help turn signals into improvements.
Mentor other producers and contribute ideas beyond immediate ownership across teams.