Sr. Principal Technical Producer - Developer Connections
About The Position
As a Technical Producer at Riot, you will lead technical teams to create products and experiences that deliver value to developers, operators, and players. You will guide development, remove blockers, and move projects toward completion while supporting sustainable, collaborative teams. As a Sr. Principal Technical Producer on the DevCon team, you will apply Riot’s production framework and operating system across defined capability areas within Code, Build, and Release. You will contribute to the organization’s operational strategy, the production group’s talent strategy, and the operating model for DevCon teams. This role reports to the DevCon lead for Technical Production. Success in this role requires craft expertise, collaboration, and decisions that prioritize fellow Rioters as the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 10 years of experience in technical production, technical program management, or engineering leadership.
- Demonstrated ownership of operational strategy for an organization, including decisions with large to critical business impact.
- Broad understanding of relevant technical domains and how they interact, with the ability to drive difficult technical decisions among leaders with opposing views.
Nice To Haves
- Agile certification from Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, PMI, or ICAgile.
- Advanced Atlassian power-user experience with Jira Product Discovery, Jira Space Administration, or Jira Plans, or Atlassian certifications.
- At least 4 years of people-management experience, including growing teams and direct reports to achieve organizational goals.
- Experience building or supporting operational platforms, internal developer tooling, or cloud-based services.
- Experience with SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or incident response organizations.
- Experience delivering software for globally scaled, highly available systems.
- Experience building business cases and funding requests for technical investment.
- Experience owning portfolio-level investment tradeoffs and funding cases.
- Experience with multi-year planning horizons and cross-portfolio dependency management.
Responsibilities
- Translate approved portfolio direction into executable technical roadmaps, reallocating resources and shifting organizational priorities to maximize strategic value.
- Shape department, business unit, or regional strategy through team and initiative leadership, and drive operational strategy within the organization.
- Drive production processes for the business unit, working with its leadership to build, adopt, and implement processes within teams.
- Create alignment between organizations with common or complementary goals, and build systems to surface conflicts proactively and route them to resolution.
- Lead significant change across multiple teams, processes, and efforts when that change has major effects on products, operations, or the organization.
- Support recruiting and hiring across the business unit as a trusted interviewer, contribute to interview kits and talent acquisition efforts, and mentor senior-level producers and leaders in other disciplines.
- Represent organizational delivery health, investment posture, and risk to executive stakeholders.
Benefits
- Open paid time off policy.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Medical insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Parental leave for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and children.
- 401(k) with company match.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
