Sr. Manager, Game Production

Job title: Sr. Manager, Game Production

About the Role Riot Producers lead cross-functional teams to craft creative content and experiences for players. As a Sr. Manager, Game Production on an unannounced R&D product, you will own the production approach and help move games from ideas through launch and live operations. You will build production systems that create clarity without over-prescribing work, and partner with leadership to scale the team while maintaining player care.

What You'll Do

• Own the game’s production approach through each phase of development, turning product strategy into actionable plans, milestones, rituals, and decision-making systems.
• Translate product strategy and creative direction into milestones and decision frameworks; align scope, quality, staffing, timelines, and delivery expectations with game leadership.
• Lead cross-functional production across design, art, engineering, product, QA, analytics, publishing, and external development.
• Build scalable planning, dependency, risk, and accountability systems as the team grows; identify delivery risks and execution constraints early and drive resolution with leaders.
• Manage production relationships with vendors, outsourcing teams, and co-development partners; maintain visibility for stakeholders on progress, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions.
• Foster healthy team dynamics, psychological safety, feedback loops, and productive conflict.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of professional experience in game production.
• 6+ years in production leadership roles on cross-disciplinary game teams.
• Experience shipping at least one game or major initiative with production responsibility from pre-production through launch.
• Background in cross-platform and live-service game development or live operations.
• Strong command of milestone planning, roadmap execution, dependency management, risk management, and launch readiness.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, scale, changing priorities, and complex production tradeoffs.
• Strong cross-discipline fluency across game design, art, engineering, product, QA, analytics, publishing, and external development.
• Vendor, outsourcing, or co-development management background.
• Deep understanding of games, player audiences, team health, modern development tools, production technology, and emerging AI-enabled tools and workflows.

Nice to Have

• Experience as a Lead Producer, Principal Producer, Production Director, or equivalent senior production owner on a shipped game.
• Shipped and operated multiple cross-platform, multiplayer, or live-service games.
• Experience building production practices for a new game, new team, or ambiguous development environment as it scaled.
• Familiarity with studio operations, business planning, workforce planning, budgeting, player insights, economy, content operations, release management, or liveops planning.
• A demonstrated player-centric approach and collaborative spirit that prioritizes player delight.

Compensation & Benefits

• Our Perks: Riot focuses on work/life balance with an open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
• 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.