Senior Technical Product Manager, SDK Social - Publishing Platform

Riot Games•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$192,500 - $269,400

About The Position

Technical Product Managers combine deep technical knowledge and experience with product leadership capabilities to enable Riot Games to deliver critical products and supporting systems to players. You will develop and execute development strategies on Riot's products and technologies while leading diverse teams to deliver creative solutions to our most difficult technical challenges. As a Senior Technical Product Manager on Riot’s Social SDK team, you will lead the vision, strategy, and product discovery for game-agnostic social capabilities that power every Riot game globally. Working closely with engineering and cross-functional partners, you will drive the planning, development, and integration of core platform features—including voice and text chat, player presence, and shared social interfaces—enabling teams to bring innovative social experiences to players faster. In this role, you will help shape the next generation of Riot’s social platform and support the launch of future games with scalable, player-focused solutions, reporting to Product Leadership within the Social Platform team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
7+ years of relevant industry experience, preferably on services / API technical product teams
Understand API-based products, primary components, and customer experience (developer experience)
Excellent team leadership, ability to refine technical product vision
Understand operational and development challenges and conflict resolution techniques

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience leading agile (scrum) teams
Familiarity with social systems and platforms
Understand product management and how to navigate around constraints while finding balanced solutions

Responsibilities

Develop the technical product vision and development strategy for Riot’s Social SDK team and collaborate with other platform teams in the social space
Manage all essential customer and partner relationships including game teams and other internal Riot teams that will integrate with Riot’s social systems
Manage the product team backlog, create a product roadmap, foster a culture of improvement, and facilitate development practices for the team
Actively manage project scope as a result of customer and partner communications and ensure the product team is aligned with Riot's objectives
Review and develop service-level agreements and goals with all core customers
Partner and collaborate with the Engineering Manager, Technical, Design, and Quality Leads on the Riot Social SDK team to align on the product and technical plan the team executes against.