Game Producer II - Unpublished R&D Product

As a Producer, you’ll lead passionate, cross-disciplinary teams in creating unique content and incredible experiences for players around the world. By encouraging teams to collaborate, you’ll guide development, smashing through obstacles and driving products into players’ hands. You'll help concept, deliver and improve projects at every stage of production.

As a Game Producer II for the MMO Team, you will help steer and orchestrate level design, environment art, and creative worldbuilding while coordinating production best practices with our production and gameplay teams to help deliver the best possible products to our players. You will use your experience of strong project management fundamentals, and broad knowledge of the game development process to support the product’s holistic vision. You will report to the Director of Product Management of the project.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate creative world building, environment art, and level design to build a cohesive and immersive experience
• Define and track content creation pipelines, ensuring delivery of assets in a timely manner.
• Guide the organization and delivery of team’s feature work to create a clean, up-to-date work backlog
• Encourage team meetings and open discussions
• Support team by removing roadblocks and managing distractions
• Direct team rituals, and evolve rituals over time
• Diverse work planning with estimations
• Release commitment and dependency / risk tracking
• Track all work (planned, unplanned, emergent)
• Drive progress update communications with leadership and team
• Work closely with engineering, art, and design to plan, cost, and implement features and content, ensuring clear goals are outlined for milestones and realized during development
• Be the advocate for team’s products and decisions
• Champion a player-focused mindset and be the voice of the player

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience developing games as a producer
• 2+ years of experience using Agile methodologies
• 1+ years of experience guiding a R&D project through the different phases of development from Pre-production to Production to Live.
• Experience scheduling and tracking development of diverse features
• Expertise with various project management frameworks (Scrum / Agile) and real-world experience leveraging them in a collaborative team setting

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with Level Designers or Environment Artists
• 3+ years of experience as a Game Producer with experience coordinating live games development and operations
• Experience with documentation tools like Notion or Confluence

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 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.

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.

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $135,700.00 - $188,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.