Technical Product Manager, Riot Games

SDK Account Experiences

$153.8-216.2k

+ Incentive compensation + Equity

Senior level
Los Angeles
Riot Games

Player-focused game development platform

Open for applications

Riot Games

Player-focused game development platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainment

Open for applications

$153.8-216.2k

+ Incentive compensation + Equity

Senior level
Los Angeles

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainment

Company mission

To be the most player-focused game company in the world.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience, preferably on services / API technical product teams
  • Understand API-based products, primary components, and customer experience (developer experience)
  • Excellent team leadership, ability to refine technical product vision
  • Understand operational and development challenges and conflict resolution techniques
  • Hands-on experience leading agile (scrum) teams
  • Understand product management and how to navigate around constraints while finding balanced solutions
  • Experience working collaboratively on a cross-discipline team
  • We will be looking at your past experience and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Desirable

  • Experience working on software products in the gaming or entertainment space
  • Familiarity with authentication or identity systems

What the job involves

  • Technical Product Managers combine deep technical knowledge and experience with product leadership capabilities to enable Riot Games to deliver critical products and supporting systems to players
  • You will develop and execute development strategies on Riot's products and technologies while leading diverse teams to deliver creative solutions to our most difficult technical challenges
  • As a Technical Product Manager II on the Developer Platform - SDK Account Experiences team, you will help pave the road for new and improved authentication and identity products and capabilities that support all of Riot’s games globally
  • Your vision and leadership will help Riot Games to launch the next wave of games with new and innovative accounts and identity features
  • You will report to Product Leadership in our Developer Platform team
  • The Riot SDK Account Experiences team is focused on building new capabilities and integrations for existing platform authentication features including federated login, regionally compliant requirements, bot avoidance mechanisms, and multi-factor authentication
  • Additionally, this team has developed a number of authentication related user experiences that are actively leveraged by Riot’s game products on all supported game platforms and engines
  • Develop the technical product vision and development strategy for Riot’s SDK Account Experiences team and collaborate with other platform teams in the authentication and identity space
  • Manage all essential customer and partner relationships including game teams and other Riot teams that will integrate with Riot’s auth and identity systems
  • Manage the product team backlog, create a product roadmap, foster a culture of improvement, and facilitate development practices for the team
  • Actively manage project scope as a result of customer and partner communications and ensure the product team is aligned with Riot's objectives
  • Review and develop service-level agreements and goals with all core customers
  • Partner and collaborate with the Engineering Manager, Technical, Design, and Quality Leads on the Riot SDK Account Experiences team to align on the product and technical plan the team executes against
  • For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players

Our take

Riot Games has grown into one of the world’s most prominent online and mobile game developers, due in large part to the success of its 2009 flagship title League of Legends which hosts just under seventy million users every month.

Riot is riding the wave of online gaming growth, having made a well timed switch from PC-only into mobile-based gaming, as capitalising on the rising popularity of esports, with the League of Legends World Championships one of the most watched events in the space.

However, adding further titles to its resume will be key to building on its success, as League of Legends was its only offering for the best part of a decade. Since being acquired by Chinese tech giant Tencent in 2011, the company has grown significantly in Asian markets, opening its Shanghai Game Studio in 2021 and expanding its China Game Studio Group in 2022. These two hubs will help Riot Games make further inroads in a country where PC gaming is already huge and continues to grow.

Regardless of League of Legends' success both online and in live arenas, the company nevertheless experienced a round of layoffs internationally that amounted to 11% of its workforce. Pair that with legal troubles in 2024 concerning the company’s partnership with now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, and Riot Games appears to be in a period of transition. Thanks to the strength of its gaming products, however, Riot will no doubt maintain a comfortable position within the gaming world.

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24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Sep 2009

$8m

SERIES C

Jul 2008

$7m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $15m

Company benefits

  • We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
  • Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available
  • Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations
  • Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games

Company values

  • Player experience first
  • Dare to dream
  • Thrive together
  • Execute with excellence
  • Stay hungry, stay humble

Company HQ

Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA

Leadership

Brandon Beck

(Co-Chairman)

Having studied at the University of Southern California, they worked as a Management Consultant at Bain & Company. they left this role in September 2006 to co-found Riot Games, where they served initially as co-CEO.

Marc Merrill

(Co-Chairman)

After a degree at the University of Southern California, they worked as a U.S. Bank Analyst and a Manager of Advanstar Communications. They co-founded Riot Games with Brandon in September 2006, alongside being a Principal of NaHCo3 since 2016.

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