Senior Director, Platform Product

About the role

RTS works across gaming, creators, and brands, producing global live events, developing original content, and building experiences that bring fan communities closer to the worlds they care about. The team spans partnerships, production, events, talent management, media, and community building. As RTS grows globally, it is investing in technology and product infrastructure to create better experiences for players, fans, organizers, partners, and broader communities. The Senior Director, Platform Product will lead the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution of the Evo Tech Platform, serving as the senior internal product leader for the initiative, shaping vision, understanding business and user needs, translating needs into product priorities, and driving the roadmap from concept through launch and continued evolution. The role works closely with internal stakeholders and external technology partners, requires technical fluency, and is a hands‑on product leadership role based in Greater Los Angeles, Greater San Francisco, or Greater Las Vegas (remote‑first). Reporting to the Chief of Staff / Head of Platform & Tech.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and priorities for the platform initiative.
• Translate business goals, user needs, and operational requirements into clear product priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Define product scope and priorities, including what should be built now versus later.
• Make clear tradeoffs across user experience, business value, timing, complexity, and cost.
• Keep the roadmap current as business needs, user feedback, data, and technical considerations evolve.
• Provide clear recommendations to leadership on major product decisions and priorities.
• Serve as the central product lead across the company for the initiative.
• Work closely with leaders, subject‑matter experts, users, and operators to understand business needs, workflows, pain points, and opportunities.
• Lead discovery sessions and product discussions that turn stakeholder input into clear requirements and priorities.
• Separate requested features from the underlying problem that needs to be solved and recommend the best product approach.
• Reconcile competing needs across teams and drive alignment around product decisions.
• Communicate priorities, tradeoffs, progress, and risks clearly to leadership and cross‑functional teams.
• Serve as the primary product counterpart to the external technology partner supporting the initiative.
• Translate product priorities into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery expectations.
• Establish an effective working rhythm for planning, product reviews, milestones, decisions, and escalation.
• Maintain visibility into scope, budget, schedule, risks, dependencies, and overall delivery progress.
• Review and challenge product and technical recommendations when appropriate.
• Hold partners accountable for agreed outcomes, quality, documentation, and timelines.
• Identify issues early and work across internal and external teams to resolve them.
• Work effectively with technical teams and partners to make informed product decisions.
• Understand the practical impact of technical choices and help translate those choices into business and product considerations.
• Evaluate technology options and third‑party solutions when needed.
• Ensure technical decisions support a strong user experience, reliability, scalability, and long‑term flexibility.
• Ask the right questions and help ensure technical recommendations align with product goals without acting as the engineering owner.
• Lead product readiness for launches, pilots, and major releases.
• Coordinate cross‑functional testing, acceptance, and launch readiness.
• Define clear measures of success and