Software Engineering Manager, UI Tech - VALORANT

Riot Games • Los Angeles, CA

7h

About The Position

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in many broader domains. As an Engineering Manager, you will gain organizational alignment by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to organizational design. You’ll also serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability.
VALORANT is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As Engineering Manager of the UI Tech team, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for all aspects of the VALORANT UI. You will partner with leaders across multiple disciplines and collaborate closely with teams across the studio to deliver meaningful UI experiences. This includes building new UI features, improving the UI development experience, and establishing guardrails for the future. You bring management and UI development experience, strong technical and communication skills, and a passion for advocating for both players and developers. You will report into an Engineering Manager.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a hands-on Software Engineer
• 2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team either as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead & mentor.
• Professional experience building and shipping UI/UX features in games or player-facing systems.
• Experience reading, writing, and reviewing C++
• Experience working in large, complex codebases
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across disciplines

Nice To Haves

• Experience developing games for Xbox and Playstation console platforms
• Experience developing in Unreal, Unity, or another game engine.
• Experience working on live service games

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5-10 engineers across experience levels, providing regular feedback and performance management.
• Develop and communicate the technical vision for your team, working with design, production, and game leadership to ensure consistency with product goals. Communicate the vision with your team clearly.
• Ensure players have a consistently high-quality UI experience throughout the client.
• Advocate for players, your team, and internal development customers when deciding what to build and why. Collaborate closely with leaders across disciplines, and gameplay and feature teams.
• Foster a collaborative, challenging, and satisfying environment for your development team. Find and surface issues, opportunities, and address them head-on. Celebrate wins.
• Provide technical oversight by reviewing technical designs and enforcing best practices and architectural standards.
• Resolve conflicts, remove obstacles, and respond to emergent issues.
• Other reasonable activities required by management.

Benefits

• Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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.

What This Job Offers

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