Director, Game Production

Directors of Production lead teams, initiatives, and products from conception through launch and operation in the gaming space. They create and align teams to product vision, deeply understand player needs, competitors, and market conditions, and balance scope, quality, and time to deliver high-quality experiences predictably.

VALORANT is Riot’s character-based tactical shooter. As a Director of Game Production on the VALORANT team, you will help Riot deliver first-in-class experiences to players. You will keep the player experience central while tracking progress, delivering content/features, and organizing priorities and goals. You will partner across disciplines to provide genre-defining experiences.

Responsibilities

• Creates, evangelizes, and drives a multi-year, multi-team operational vision for initiatives and large development teams
• Partners with Product Management to manage the portfolio of strategic opportunities, re-allocating resources and shifting organizational priorities to maximize strategic value
• Partners with cross-discipline leadership to define expected outcomes for full product or large organization initiatives
• Leverages structured frameworks to ensure consistent communication, decision-making, and prioritization around planned initiatives
• Builds reaction/maintenance plans for live/launched initiative outcomes and owns decision-making for those plans
• Directs planning, estimation, and execution of development processes across a large organization or business unit
• Oversees the delivery of global software projects utilizing both internal and external distributed development teams
• Ensures initiatives can be tested early and iterated on prior to final release to maximize value and minimize wasted effort
• Actively advances Riot's understanding of sustainable development, building sustainability and continuous improvement into products and organizations
• Creates alignment between their area, stakeholders, and partner organizations working toward both common and divergent goals
• Builds and maintains a positive working environment that promotes sustainable work-life balance, collaboration, and healthy conflict resolution

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software/game development
• 6+ years in a production leadership position on a live service game
• 5+ years of direct people management experience, including managing people managers
• 2+ years of experience leading teams through metagame feature development (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)

Qualifications

• Deep passion for, and understanding of, competitive online games and their player communities
• Familiarity with online shooters, especially VALORANT or tactical shooters
• Experience developing across multiple platforms, including PC, console, or mobile

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

Benefits

• Open paid time off policy
• Flexible work schedules
• Medical, dental, and life insurance
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
• 401k with company match