Senior Game Producer - Unpublished R&D Product

As a Producer at Riot, you’ll support passionate, cross-functional teams in creating exciting content and experiences for our players around the world. You will encourage teams to communicate, guide development, remove roadblocks, and ultimately help drive our games into players’ hands, while making sure that our teams and workflows are healthy and sustainable.

As a Senior Game Producer for an R&D game team, you will help steer and orchestrate cosmetic content development, and coordinate production best practices with our production and gameplay teams to help deliver the best possible products to our players. You will partner closely with artists, producers, product owners, designers and engineers to guide content from concept through implementation - maintaining quality, managing timelines, and ensuring creative alignment. You will help shape the pipelines and workflows that enable artists to do their best work, at scale, in a live service environment. You will use your experience of content production, strong project management fundamentals, and broad knowledge of the game development process to support the product’s holistic vision. You will report to an Operations Lead on the project.

Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery of content features in a cross-team and cross-discipline manner
• Partner with discipline leads to ensure that all content meets fidelity, consistency, and style standards
• Drive development and maintenance of sustainable creative pipelines, including support for external vendors and outsourcing workflows
• Drive creation, alignment, and delivery of content goals
• Transition a team from a largely exploratory space to a high functioning delivery model
• Prioritization of requests from multiple partner teams, planned and emergent
• Long range planning of resource allocation to deliver against project priorities
• Establish and own an effective development framework by leading content team meetings, driving iterative process improvements, and ensuring needed communication
• Own long term sustainability of the team including improving capabilities, creating and maintaining effective work systems, and team health
• Ensure effective execution of risk management, velocity tracking, product review, and quality validation 
• Identify and resolve roadblocks and distractions to unlock developers and help them achieve established goals
• Maintain stakeholder relationships and keep them informed of progress, risks, and pivots
• Communicate team staffing needs as they arise

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience developing games as a producer on content teams 
• 4+ years of experience delivering content for a live service game
• 2+ years of experience guiding a R&D project through the different phases of development from Pre-production to Production to Live.
• Experience working with game developers to create or manage scalable pipelines for art-driven content; deep familiarity with modern 2D and 3D art pipelines in games.
• Experience collaborating with creatives to scope, prioritize, and deliver high-quality visual assets.
• Experience shipping multiple games with production responsibility on important features and content
• Experience working with both internal and external vendors to deliver content for a live service game
• Experience with project management software such as Jira or MS Project

Desired Qualifications:

• A passion for solving operational and logistical problems
• Experience managing art content teams and processes
• Experience with Unreal workflows

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to 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.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.