Senior Manager, Game Production - Unpublished R&D Product
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Singapore production organization, aligning team goals and priorities with the game’s vision, strategy, and milestones set by the Los Angeles leadership team.
- Serve as the primary accountable owner for collaboration health, ensuring clear communication, mutual trust, and smooth integration between studios.
- Drive operational excellence by designing and maintaining scalable production systems, workflows, and accountability rituals that enable sustainable and predictable delivery.
- Cascade strategic direction from senior game leadership into clear objectives and execution plans for Singapore-based teams.
- Oversee cross-disciplinary coordination (art, design, engineering, QA, etc.) to ensure efficient collaboration and timely delivery of features, prototypes, and content.
- Assess and manage risks, proactively addressing production challenges, dependencies, and resourcing needs.
- Monitor production and collaboration health metrics, fostering transparency, alignment, and continuous improvement across all teams.
- Support people management efforts in partnership with discipline leads, ensuring clear goals, career growth, and strong team morale.
- Represent the Singapore team in strategic discussions, status updates, and cross-studio alignment meetings, ensuring both clarity and advocacy for local needs.
- Model Riot’s values and leadership expectations, fostering psychological safety, inclusion, and a feedback-driven culture across teams.
- Champion a player-focused mindset and be the voice of the player.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of senior leadership experience in game production, operations, or project management within gaming, including experience as a manager of managers and shipping or supporting AAA titles.
- Led production organizations of 30+ people or multiple teams, with ownership of staffing, priorities, capacity, and delivery.
- Strong experience managing co-development or distributed development across studios or locations, including ownership, milestones, dependencies, and handovers between internal teams and external partners.
- Experience translating creative vision into scope, milestones, resource plans, and deliverables.
- Strong track record in risk management, capacity planning, and holding team leaders accountable for delivery.
- Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, or Kanban, with experience adapting production processes to R&D environments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including resolving conflicts and aligning senior creative, technical, and business leaders.
Desired Qualifications
- 2+ years leading large scale collaboration between internal and external studios.
- Experience shipping or supporting MMO or live service titles.
- Led teams through uncertainty, changing priorities, and rapid iteration in early development.
- Managed outsourcing partners against agreed scope, quality, milestones, and deadlines.
What You'll Get
- Our Perks:
- Full relocation support
- Full health insurance for you, your spouse and children
- Open paid time off
- Retirement benefits with company matching
- Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability
- Play Fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games
- We will double down on your donations of time and money to non-profits
