Principal Technical Producer, Account Management - Central Tech
Riot Games · Seattle, WA · 3 wk ago
On-siteMarketingFull-time
About the Role
As a Principal Technical Producer on Central Tech's Account Management team, you will co-lead the Duo-model engagement system alongside a senior technical counterpart, serving as the clear front door for Riot's internal customers. In this role, you will streamline customer demand into actionable priorities through structured rituals and decision-making, while reinforcing the Product Menu to minimize bespoke, reactive intake. Partnering closely with engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders, you will build a predictable, scalable engagement model that enhances roadmap alignment, maximizes visibility, and drives successful delivery across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead the customer-facing account management side of the Duo model, partnering with a senior technical counterpart to create a unified and high-trust interface between Central Tech and assigned customers.
- Shape and evolve how Central Tech engages with customers by improving the mechanisms, rituals, and artifacts that support the Duo model at scale.
- Help customers navigate Central Tech's Product Menu by translating needs into standard offerings where possible and clearly identifying when work is bespoke, cross-functional, or requires escalation.
- Partner with stakeholders to translate customer goals, constraints, and dependencies into clear plans, priorities, and actionable work.
- Lead roadmap alignment, prioritization, and tradeoff conversations so customer asks are grounded in strategic outcomes rather than reactive intake.
- Own the initiative's work systems for the relationship, including rituals, tracking, reporting, decision logs, follow-ups, and stakeholder communication.
- Ensure asks, commitments, dependencies, risks, and decisions are captured in the appropriate systems and remain visible to customers and internal partners.
- Establish accountability loops and governance structures so stakeholders have clarity on status, ownership, and next steps.
- Represent customer context and priorities in internal Central Tech conversations, helping engineering, product, and program partners stay aligned on what matters most.
- Assess stakeholder sentiment, relationship health, and engagement friction, then proactively drive improvements in trust, clarity, and execution quality.
- Identify blockers, escalation needs, and cross-team gaps early, and drive them to resolution with the right level of urgency and leadership visibility.
- Help create a more sustainable operating environment by reducing random pings, relitigation, and avoidable coordination overhead across Central Tech and its customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience with strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills.
- Minimum of 6 years of experience as a Technical Producer, Program Manager, Product Manager, Delivery Lead, or similar role supporting medium to large technical teams.
- Experience leading cross-functional, initiative-level work in environments where success depends on influence, alignment, and operational rigor rather than direct authority.
- Strong ability to define and communicate plans, tradeoffs, and priorities across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated strength in stakeholder management, including working with senior partners, navigating competing priorities, and maintaining trust through clear communication and follow-through.
- Experience building or owning work systems that include planning cadences, tracking, reporting, decision-making rituals, and partner communications.
- Strong technical fluency and systems thinking, with the ability to understand complex technical work well enough to facilitate planning, risk management, and customer conversations credibly.
- Experience scaling Agile/Lean frameworks across large portfolios and utilizing enterprise project tracking tools.
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and relationship management skills.
- Experience working with internal customers who have diverse needs, contexts, and levels of technical fluency.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in technical account management, customer-facing production, strategic operations, partner management, or similar outward-facing roles.
- Experience working with platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, live operations, or other Central Tech-adjacent domains.
- Experience helping organizations move from ad hoc intake toward more product-led, service-oriented, or menu-driven operating models.
- Familiarity with portfolio management systems, dashboards, and structured operating cadences used to manage complex technical work.
- Experience improving engagement models, intake processes, or cross-functional planning mechanisms at scale.
- Strong understanding of how engineering, product, and program functions partner together in a matrixed environment.
- Experience balancing relationship management with execution oversight across multiple internal customers or business units.
- Passion for games and an interest in building the technical capabilities that help Riot teams deliver for players.
Benefits
- Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and life insurance.
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
- 401k with company match.