As a Localization Producer II at Riot Games, you are responsible for integrating global readiness into the lifecycle of Riot’s products and activations. Reporting to the Manager of Globalization Production, you operate at the intersection of Product, Development, Content Production, Localization, and Publishing. You ensure that features, campaigns, and experiences are globally viable from planning through release, balancing executional excellence with high-quality standards.

Responsibilities:

• Upstream Collaboration: Partner with Development and Product teams during intake to ensure internationalization and regional requirements are incorporated early.
• Pipeline Maintenance: Support development and content teams in building and maintaining sustainable globalization pipelines.
• End-to-End Delivery: Manage the localization lifecycle from source handoff through release, ensuring launches are aligned across regions and platforms.
• Global Quality Advocacy: Advocate for cultural nuance and experiential consistency, balancing speed and scalability in partnership with product stakeholders.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify project-level risks across localization and compliance, developing mitigation plans and communicating impacts clearly to relevant partners.
• Data Application: Use data to illustrate issues, improve predictability, and reduce rework at the product level.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Maintain constant partner alignment by communicating project goals and status to senior leaders and regional teams.

Required Qualifications: 

• 3-5+ years as a localization producer in gaming, tech, or entertainment.
• Strong understanding of game development cycles and the technology that supports them.
• Conversant in localization content management systems (CMS), version control, and media localization tools.
• Strong knowledge of internationalization best practices and global localization pipelines.
•  Proven ability to simplify complexity and manage stakeholders across development and regional teams.
• Comfortable working within Agile methodologies and applying them to localization workflows.
• Experience working effectively with global, distributed teams and resolving conflicts in dynamic environments.

Desired Qualifications:

• Track record of successfully partnering with globally disparate teams/stakeholders
• Experience supporting R&D titles
• Chinese fluency is a plus
  
  

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

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That's where you come in.

As a Localization Operations Manager at Riot Games, you are responsible for embedding global readiness into the operational lifecycle of Riot’s products and experiences. Reporting to the Manager of Localization Operations, you operate at the intersection of Production, Development, Publishing, and Localization, ensuring that global delivery is scalable, predictable, and aligned with player expectations.

You lead localization operations across a portfolio of products, shaping workflows from planning through release. You balance executional excellence with strategic foresight, driving alignment across regions and stakeholders while evolving systems and processes to support global scale.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Production, Development, and Publishing to integrate localization requirements into planning, scope, and timelines
• Oversee localization workflows from source readiness through delivery, ensuring high-quality and on-time outcomes
• Monitor execution health, resolve blockers, and maintain operational predictability across teams
• Develop and improve workflows, runbooks, and systems to enable scalable localization operations
• Leverage localization management systems, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency and visibility
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships and drive alignment across regional and global stakeholders
• Act as a primary point of contact for localization operations within the region
• Identify risks across localization, compliance, and publishing workflows, and drive mitigation strategies
• Use data to improve quality, reduce friction, and scale operations effectively

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in localization operations, production, or program management in gaming, tech, or entertainment
• Experience supporting complex global launches and distributed teams
• Strong understanding of localization pipelines, internationalization, and QA processes
• Experience with localization management systems, CMS platforms, and project management tools (e.g., Jira or similar)
• Proven stakeholder management skills and ability to influence without authority
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex workflows
• Professional proficiency in English and Mandarin

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience scaling global operational systems or programs
• Familiarity with automation or AI-enabled localization workflows
• Experience in change management or operational transformation
• Understanding of regional compliance and publishing requirements in China

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

The Global Events Lead Producer is accountable for translating Riot’s product strategy and event vision into world-class live experiences. You will oversee defining the end-to-end event direction for major global esports events, guiding cross-functional teams, agency partners, and vendors to deliver a cohesive, player-first experience. This role requires excellence in creative interpretation, operational leadership, financial ownership, cross-functional communication, and experiential execution. You will support strategic creation with Product and Senior Leadership but the focus of your role is translating goals, requests, and needs out to the larger team that will collaborate on execution. You will set the tone for the larger, cross-discipline team of internal and external partners fostering a collaborative and positive environment while upholding Riot’s values.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership & Cross-Functional Alignment
  • Translate Product-led strategy, experience pillars, and goals into actionable event plans and creative/operational direction.
  • Partner with Product Leads, Publishing, CSLT, Broadcast, Competitive Operations, and cross-functional teams to align on goals, KPIs, and success criteria.
  • Provide structured communication to stakeholders, maintaining consistent feedback loops, milestone reporting, and expectation alignment.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert (SME) on global event production, integrating fan experience, broadcast needs, competitive integrity, and venue constraints. 
  • Lead cross-functional partners through clear decision pathways, approvals, and workflows.
  • Proactively address status towards milestones and flag risks associated with missing deadlines.
• Event Planning, Production & Operational Excellence
  • Partner with Physical Production Lead to oversee end-to-end production for assigned global esports events, including vendor sourcing, creative approvals, experiential integration, production schedules, live show execution, and post-event retrospectives. 
  • Lead regular team meetings and post-mortem evaluations, providing prioritization and ensuring consistent, transparent communication & collaboration. 
  • Manage, approve, and create if necessary all workback calendars, dependencies, and operational documentation.
  • Manage venue site visits, space vetting, and coordinating cross-functional needs. ○ Support future planning, as needed, in the sourcing of venues, negotiating city partnerships and contracting venues. 
  • Develop documentation such as RAPID or Roles & Responsibilities charts, staffing plans, organizational flows, and onsite protocols to ensure best-in-class operational clarity. 
  • Maintain alignment with Finance, Legal, Event Logistics for Global Security and Health & Safety to ensure compliance, safety, crisis-readiness, and regulatory adherence. 
  • Understand and participate in emergency response planning in pre-production and onsite. Communicate with comms and stakeholder escalations as needed. 
  • Partner with Event Logistics to develop overall guest experience including competitor, talent, and VIP experience flows, ensuring seamless operational integration. 
  • Lead agency and vendor teams with clarity, accountability, and operational rigor.
• Budget, Vendor, & Resource Management
  • Set prioritization for budget spend in line with Product and event goals. 
  • Track and report on budget allocation in partnership with Line Producer and Production Lead including providing regular status updates to protect against cost overruns. 
  • Track and advise the Finance team on tax incentives and rebates, as applicable, to ensure Riot is maximising potential financial incentives.
  • Ensure business due diligence with vendor sourcing, onboarding and management including conducting Request for Proposals (RFPs) as needed for cost efficiency. 
  • Source and manage vendors, freelancers, contractors, and specialized partners through RFP processes, contract oversight, and performance/feedback evaluation. 
  • Collaborate with agency partners on ticketing strategy, pricing recommendations, forecasting, reporting, and operational distribution. 
  • Proactively develop event resourcing needs and recommendations across staffing, tools, operational support, creative support, and external vendors. 
  • As applicable, recruit, screen and onboard to support the staffing needs for each event in consultation with leadership and HR.
• Creative Development & Experience Design
  • Translate game tone, product strategy, and event objectives into immersive live experiences, anchoring design decisions in player-first values. 
  • Lead creative development of experiential elements in partnership with internal teams and Publishing including scenic builds, fan activations, thematic integrations, community areas, and con-style programming. 
  • Partner with Creative, Broadcast, and agency teams on storyboards, show flow, multimedia integrations, special effects, player walkouts, and audience interaction moments. 
  • Champion accessibility, audience flow, clarity, and navigational user experience throughout site and experience design. 
  • Integrate DE&I, community representation, and inclusivity principles into the live experience. 
  • Cultivate an industry network and relationships including freelancers, vendors, venues, agencies 
  • Track experiential industry trends, understand global fan culture shifts and apply insights to event design to always consider the player-first experience. 
  • Focus on developing creative event experiences with sustainability in mind through design choices, waste reduction, and environmental compliance. 
• Insights, Metrics, Reporting & Iteration
  • Define experiential success criteria in partnership with Insights, Product, and Publishing. 
  • Understand business context of event performance and provide data where applicable such as attendance, sentiment, operational efficiency, and broadcast integration. 
  • Conduct structured retrospectives, producing actionable insights and future recommendations; share cross-product and share event over event. 
  • Maintain historical documentation to support multi-year planning and future creative/operational improvements

Required Qualifications: 

• 6 - 8 years of experience in live event production, or large-scale experiential leadership including management of agency work and brand-side stakeholders. 
• Proven track record of lead producing global fan-forward events for broadcast. 
• Strong experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets and complex vendor ecosystems. 
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic objectives into creative and operational outcomes while expanding the opportunity space. 
• Experience producing events with 10,000+ attendees and international operational components. 
• Strategic problem-solver with a high standard for detail, creative storytelling, and operational rigor. 
• Solutions oriented approach focused on identifying problems in advance and leading with proactive recommendations and contingency planning. 
• Skilled at cross-functional alignment across global teams, multiple time zones, and diverse stakeholder groups. 
• Able to build, implement and execute workflows and best-in-class frameworks focused on creating efficiencies, good business practices and financial due diligence. 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including synthesizing complex topics into digestible, concise formats for senior leadership. 
• Proficient reading, writing and speaking English. 
• Proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, Airtable (Riot’s preferred platforms). 
• Ability to operate in hybrid work environments and travel internationally for up to five weeks at a time, approximately 30% of total work time. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Deep fluency in gaming IPs, esports tournament logistics, broadcast production, and technical show operations.
• Familiarity with the Riot community, meta, and fan culture. 
• Understanding of global fan culture, regional nuances, and experiential design trends. 
• Additional language proficiency and experience producing events internationally. 
• Passion for building player-first experiences that combine fandom, competition, and narrative immersion

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

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

As a Manager of Globalization Production at Riot Games, you will lead teams responsible for bringing Riot’s content from creation to live for players around the world. You will serve as the strategic bridge between our creative game and content teams and our global audiences. In this role, you’ll manage producers across localization and content publishing teams and align workflows across teams to enable scale while partnering closely with Development, Product, Content Production, Marketing and Engineering teams. Your mission is to ensure that every game, cinematic and Riot produced experience lands with quality, consistency, and impact across regions, languages and platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of content from source handoff through localization, readiness and publishing.
• Ensure global launches are coordinated, localized, and published across channels and regions.
• Directly manage localization and content operations producers, coaching them to think beyond functional silos and take ownership of full content lifecycles.
• Build a team culture grounded in accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a primary partner to stakeholders across Content Production, Product and Game Teams.
• Represent globalization and publishing considerations early in planning and intake conversations.
• Use data and insights to inform prioritization, resourcing and process improvements.
• Establish and evolve workflows that connect Content Production, Localization and Publishing.
• Partner with tooling and platform teams to improve automation, scalability, and visibility.
• Define and track success metrics such as time-to-market, localization readiness, etc.

Requirements:

• Experience building content pipelines and familiarity with publishing systems, and content management platforms.
• Strong understanding of how content is produced, packaged, localized and published at scale.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional workflows and multiple stakeholders.
• 3 years of people management experience.

Qualifications:

• At least five years in content localization or globalization management, preferably in gaming or entertainment.
• Experience leading teams in localization, content operations, publishing or program management.
• Experience working with global teams and regional partners.
• A systems mindset: you see patterns, dependencies, and opportunities for simplification.

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

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

At Riot Games, we’re committed to delivering unforgettable esports experiences to fans around the globe. Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work across multiple domains. As a Systems Engineer in the Esports Event Technology (EET) Team, you will support a team focused on building, supporting and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling and applications that power Riot's esports events around the world. You will work in a self-guiding, cross-functional team with highly skilled individuals to ensure that Riot's infrastructure is capable of supporting all Riot Esports initiatives. 

This role may require international travel to support global and regional events. Expected travel ranges from 10% to 40% depending on event schedules and business needs

Responsibilities:

• Act as the SME for core infrastructure systems, platforms, and services
• Design, support and evolve our global esports infrastructure
• Collaborate within a diverse, cross functional team across engineering and operations
• Develop technical standards and enable operations teams through documentation, automation, and coaching
• Participate in global event support as needed, including occasional non standard working hours

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years as a Systems, Support or Infrastructure Engineering roles 
• Experience with Ansible and Terraform for automation and configuration management
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins)
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, AHV).
• Experience designing and operating containerized workloads (e.g., Docker)
• Experience with imaging and deployment tools (e.g., FOG, SCCM, Autopilot)
• Expertise in Linux and Windows systems
• Track record of reducing operational toil through automation

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building or maintaining global infrastructure, systems at scale
• Experience defining and implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability standards
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Bash)
• Experience using Git for version control
• Experience with operating infrastructure in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Relevant certifications such as RHCE or RHCSA, or equivalent hands-on experience, are a plus

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, 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!

Our Perks:

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.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.