Hiring: Sr. Manager, Game Production (Production Lead) - Unpublished R&D Product Company: Riot Games Location: Los Angeles, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 14:18:38 Target Skills & Keywords : Product Strategy, R, Risk Management About the job Experience: •10+ years of professional experience working in game production. •6+ years of in production leadership roles on cross-disciplinary game teams. Required Skills: •Own the game’s production approach through each phase of development, helping the team make strong decisions today while preparing for future launch and live-service needs. •Translate product strategy and creative direction into actionable plans, milestones, rituals, and decision-making systems. •Partner with game leadership and discipline leads to align scope, quality, staffing, timelines, and delivery expectations. •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, organizational gaps, and execution constraints early; drive resolution with the appropriate leaders and teams. •Manage production relationships with vendors, outsourcing teams, and co-development partners. •Maintain clear visibility for stakeholders on progress, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions. Qualifications: •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. •Comprehensive expertise in games, player audiences, team health, modern development tools, production technology, and emerging AI-enabled tools and workflows. •Shipped and operated multiple cross-platform, multiplayer, or live-service games. •Operational familiarity with studio operations, business planning, workforce planning, budgeting, player insights, economy, content operations, release management, or liveops planning. Compensation: •Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!