Game Product Managers at Riot lead passionate teams to create and evolve products and experiences for our players. We seek to deeply understand our product’s audience and drive strategy to create value for players and for Riot. We help concept, build, and influence projects at all stages of production.

As a Director, Games Product Management at Riot, you will combine deep knowledge of players, systems, and technology with product leadership capabilities to drive player, product and business impact. As the PM Lead for the Cross-VALORANT Experience Initiative on VALORANT, you will define the long term vision of the team’s feature roadmap by actively evaluating opportunity areas and prioritizing features based upon player impact. You incorporate learnings from product experiments, constantly updating your understanding of the product audience to better predict what players care about, and incorporate these lessons into future problem space definition and roadmap focus.

The Cross-VALORANT Experience team (XVX) is responsible for providing a cohesive and holistic experience for millions of players worldwide, setting up VALORANT to continue its success for new and existing players alike. This area is connected to the entire product, from the front end UI down to the low-level performance of the game itself, and ensures a high quality player experience via close partnerships with all other VALORANT teams.

Your curiosity and deep understanding of the intricate nuances of the VALORANT development team’s workflows will be used to improve the ease and efficiency of the development and testing processes in order to ultimately improve the quality of the player experience. You will be accountable for the holistic player journey throughout the VALORANT client in addition to maintaining a high level of in-game quality and performance on PC and Console for our players worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for player facing and highly technical opportunities on the VALORANT XVX team.
• Drive the core loop in the player flow by improving session start, in-game, and post-game experiences so each match feels rewarding and naturally leads to the next.
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, adeptly anticipating future challenges and orchestrating multi-team responses to meet the evolving needs of our players and development teams located throughout the world.
• Work across all game teams and lead highly complex cross game projects representing the holistic out of game player experience.
• Manage technical complexity, validating requirements and designs for data-intensive projects, and communicating technical tradeoffs to a non-technical audience.
• Partner and collaborate with Engineering, Production, Product, and Insights to align on the product and technical plans and ensure that the products are aligned with the game team’s and Riot’s goals.
• Manage relationships with partners, stakeholders and customers, in addition to direct management over PMs and TPMs within the organization.

Required Qualifications: 

• Experience leading teams through feature development (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)
• 8+ years experience in game / software development
• 6+ years of experience as a Product Manager or Producer on medium to large teams
• 4+ years of direct people management experience
• Excellent teamwork, team leadership, communication, and stakeholder management
• Deep understanding of player/customer needs within complex audience segments and the ability to anticipate future demands
• Understanding of mechanics used in Free to Play games to drive engagement and revenue, either through design or personal experience
• Experience leading large, multi-disciplinary teams to successful major product outcomes
• Experience breaking down complex problems and problem spaces using various business or product frameworks and crafting optimal solutions for our players and our business

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in video game production, product management, consulting, or business strategy for consumer-facing products preferred
• Deep understanding of video games, video game systems, and Player behavior either professionally or personally
• MBA or advanced degrees in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Management Information Systems, a related discipline, or comparable work experiences (meaningful work experience = 3+ years in relevant space)

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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. 

ML engineers at Riot own the full lifecycle of machine learning in production - from problem framing through model design, deployment, and operation - building systems that serve players at global scale.  They work across disciplines with engineers, data scientists, designers, and product teams to turn ML capabilities into player-facing experiences and tools for making great games.

As a Staff Applied Modeling Engineer on an unpublished R&D product, you will lead the modeling strategy for the team - establishing architecture patterns, setting standards, and continuing to design solutions for the highest-complexity problems directly.  Your work will span multi-month efforts and across multiple disciplines, shaping how the team (and Riot) approach applied ML.  You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Tech Foundations team within an R&D game project.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with designers, artists, and other engineers to discover and conceptualize opportunities for AI-powered workflow enhancements
• Establish AI/ML architecture patterns within the project and design solutions for high-complexity problems; guide solution design considering integration and operational constraints
• Refine modeling and feature invention strategy for the project; improve architecture trade-offs, signal extraction techniques, and quality standards for complex data sources
• Refine multi-model system design and model optimization; improve interaction analysis, dependency management, and performance evaluation techniques
• Establish pipeline architecture patterns within the project, aligning with Riot’s shared tech ecosystem; guide workflow design and deployment automation; set reliability standards
• Establish research-to-production practices in partnership with research scientists; balance cutting-edge techniques with production reliability
• Elevate the team’s expertise in advanced AI/ML methods for game development through mentorship and documentation, and contribute to team health through cross-disciplinary collaboration; level up developers across discipline

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience delivering ML systems in production, including 3+ years in applied modeling or ML research roles
• Evidence that your modeling choices have been adopted beyond your immediate team - whether through reusable patterns, shared architectures, or influence on how others approach problems
• History of working with complex or unconventional data sources where off-the-shelf feature engineering doesn’t apply
• Experience in production environments with interacting models, feedback loops, or systems where model behavior has downstream consequences beyond a single prediction
• Comfort with ambiguity - you’ve shipped in situations where the success metric, the right approach, or both were unclear at the start.
• Track record mentoring engineers across roles and levels; evidence of raising the bar for people around you.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Passion for player experience, games, or creative technology
• Proficiency in C++

Desired Qualifications:

• Background in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, generative models, or simulation-based training in interactive environments
• Familiarity with ML platform components (model serving, feature stores, ML observability)
• Experience working in a AAA game engine (i.e. Unreal)
• Experience building multiplayer games
• Experience implementing tools for game designers and/or artists
• Experience mentoring technical ICs and contributing to engineering culture

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 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. 

As a Senior Manager in Game Production at Riot, you’ll lead passionate cross-functional teams in crafting creative content and incredible experiences for players around the world. By encouraging teams to collaborate, you’ll drive development, smashing through obstacles and driving products into players’ hands. You’ll exceed expectations by helping concept, deliver, improve, and influence creative projects at every stage of production.

As a Senior Manager in Game Production you will lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality champion-focused experiences for League of Legends. This role sits within the Champions & Cosmetics space, driving large-scale initiatives across gameplay, character development, and cosmetic content. You will play a critical role in shaping the future of champion production, including overseeing complex character pipelines, scaling content systems, and helping continue delivering visual efforts on League of Legends. You will report to the Director, Game Production.

Responsibilities:

• Lead production across champion-centric development, including gameplay and cosmetic content (e.g. skins, store systems)
• Drive execution across large-scale, multi-discipline character asset pipelines (modeling, rigging, animation, etc.)
• Contribute to long-term strategy for champion production and pipeline scalability
• Manage complex dependencies across teams-of-teams, including global co-development partners
• Continuously improve team health by identifying opportunities to define and refine how we work as a team
• Manage and mentor a mix of individual contributors and managers
• Partner with art, design, and engineering leaders to define quality standards and execution expectations

Required Qualifications: 

• A minimum of 8 years of working in game development, with experience in the full game development life cycle 
• A minimum of 4 years of direct people management experience
• Experience working with character or asset production pipelines (e.g. champions, skins, or similar content)
• Familiarity with League of Legends or similar MOBA/live-service games
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-disciplinary production pipelines
• Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across teams

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver AAA gameplay experiences
• Ability to disambiguate product vision into gameplay requirements and appropriately sized features and functionality
• Ability to manage change across teams, organizations and cultures

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:

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains.  We work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to solve complex, large-scale challenges and deliver player value.  As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll lead the development of key features and model high standards of engineering excellence. 

As a Principal Software Engineer on Riot’s AI Enablement team, you are a technical force multiplier. You will embed directly with any team at Riot to accelerate their adoption of modern AI development (e.g., generative AI, LLMs, reinforcement learning). Operating as part of an elite, highly mobile strike team, you will build production-ready AI integrations, develop robust developer tools, and level up partner engineers through side-by-side collaboration. Once a team is empowered and systems are successfully handed off, you will deploy to the next challenge. You will be at the forefront of cutting-edge AI in the game industry, bridging the gap between new technologies and live environments to shape how Riot develops products and games. You will be accountable to Riot’s Head of AI Product.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and Integrate: Lead the technical execution of integrating modern AI practices into existing engines, tools, and pipelines.
• Embed and Accelerate: Deploy onto partner teams across Riot to break down complex AI implementation problems, establish technical direction, and deliver scalable, highly performant solutions.
• Mentorship and Handoff: Train and coach embedded team engineers through pair programming, technical reviews, and hands-on collaboration. Ensure a seamless transition of code ownership before deploying to your next assignment.
• Evangelize Best Practices: Share engineering best practices, security guardrails, and performance standards for AI usage across Riot’s development ecosystem.
• Build Foundations: Identify when industry-standard tools are insufficient and develop new foundations, middleware, or APIs to connect AI research with practical development.
• Manage Ambiguity: Actively navigate highly complex, uncharted technical spaces, communicating trade-offs and building consensus among engineering and product leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with 8-12 years of software engineering experience.
• Extensive experience with systems integration, technical leadership, and early-stage software development.
• Deep programming proficiency in C++ and at least one other language (e.g., Python, C#).
• Shipped at least one AAA game or large-scale, high-concurrency live service product.
• Proven track record of managing high ambiguity, setting technical strategy, and leading multi-month/year initiatives.
• Practical experience utilizing, integrating, or building modern AI tools, APIs, or infrastructure.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience extending or developing within Unreal Engine (C++).
• Familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) or LLM orchestration.
• Background working on shared engine technology, central tools, or platform engineering teams.
• Familiarity with the Runeterra and VALORANT IPs.

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 Strategic Finance Analyst within Publishing, you'll report to the Global Head of Publishing Finance. Your team works with senior go-to-market leadership on all topics related to budget and finance. Initially, you will leverage your financial modeling and operations skills to manage, maintain, and improve key operational models and processes. Over time, you will develop into a strategic thought partner for go-to-market leadership for one or more games or functions within Publishing. Your financial craft expertise, coupled with a strategic mindset and player-value orientation will help you increase the efficiency and performance of a world-class Publishing organization. 

Responsibilities:

Publishing Wide Financial Operations

• Learn, update, maintain, and build complex financial models to understand, plan, and report Publishing’s financial performance
• Manage, maintain, and improve budgetary tracking systems
• Partner with central Finance, Tax and Treasury, Accounting, and Purchasing functions to service the needs of the Publishing organization and Riot as a whole
• Work with cross-functional teams to improve financial and operational processes within the organization
• Assists and/ or drives ad hoc analysis and projects as directed by leadership
• Support the annual planning process, including budgeting and forecasting within Publishing and iteration on and development of existing planning models

Operational Strategy and Strategic Planning

• Aid in the development of financial frameworks that guide senior publishing and live operations leadership thinking through complex or ambiguous resource allocation problems
• Create communication materials such as models, presentations, and other forms of written documentation, tailored to the right audience level (e.g. management seniority, area of expertise)
• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across Publishing functions

Required Qualifications:

• 2 to 5 years experience in investment banking, management consulting, corporate strategy, strategic finance, FP&A, or corporate finance role
• Exceptional financial modeling and analytical skills
• Experience managing analysis of complex or ambiguous problem spaces spanning multiple organizations
• Ability to work independently within defined areas and manage multiple priorities
• Knowledge of or willingness to deeply learn financial systems for planning and reporting such as OneStream, Hyperion, etc.
• Knowledge of or experience working in one or more of the following topics relevant to Publishing:
• Gaming or Entertainment business models
• FP&A and/ or Financial Operations
• International market strategy and operations

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Marketing organizations, from both strategic and financial perspectives
• Experience building resilient systems with the aid of Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge of tools that can automate and simplify financial data analysis and visualization (examples include VBA, SQL, R, Alteryx, Tableau, Looker)

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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’s People team exists to help Riot make the best decisions about its talent. We bring our expertise to all areas of Human Resources spanning the full employee life cycle - from hiring, to onboarding, learning and development, diversity and inclusion, performance management, total rewards, employee relations and that all Rioters can flourish.

We view ourselves as trusted consultants and advisers with a specific expertise in all things HR. Working in People at Riot enables you to redefine what effective HR practices are. As HR Business Partners, we carefully listen to the problem spaces and work with Rioters to get to an optimum outcome. We re-imagine the employee experience so it resonates with our workforce and our leaders and enables them to flourish

As a Senior HR Business Partner you’ll partner closely with leaders across our Enterprise Technology and Finance organizations to shape and ensure Rioters can do their best work. You’ll operate as a trusted advisor in a complex, fast moving environment bringing strong judgment, business context, and a pragmatic approach to everything from navigating performance, talent, and organizational changes. You’ll balance strategy and execution, rolling up your sleeves when needed, and help drive people practices that are fair, scalable and reflective of the complexity and pace of our business. You’ll help shape and strengthen the culture in the teams you support by translating Riot’s values into meaningful, day-to-day practices that drive performance and team health. Curiosity about gaming and excitement for the space will help you build context and credibility quickly. 

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Enterprise leaders to align people strategies with business goals, providing practical guidance rooted in both data and experience.
• Lead ongoing performance management for your groups: run calibrations, coach managers on feedback, and keep the process consistent and meaningful.
• Partner with Compensation and leadership on fair, transparent job leveling and pay decisions across disciplines.
• Support workforce planning, from role design to resource deployment, and help teams navigate small-scale reorganizations or reductions with care and clarity.
• Provide thought partnership on org design and cost effectiveness, balancing immediate needs with long-term growth.
• Build change management plans to ensure smooth transitions when the business shifts.
• Help leaders plan ahead with succession strategies and workforce capability planning.
• Partner with Employee Relations, Legal and Operational teams on sensitive issues (e.g., accommodations, exits, ER themes), handling details with professionalism and discretion.
• Surface insights from engagement surveys, exit data, and other feedback loops to shape team culture and leader action plans.
• Ensure data accuracy and compliance through periodic audits of people surveys, systems and processes.
• Support Total Rewards, D&I, L&D, and other People initiatives, tailoring them to the unique needs of your client groups.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in an HR Business Partner role with progressive scope.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Human Resources Management, Business, or relevant field; or equivalent work experience.
• Track record of guiding leaders through performance management, job leveling, and workforce planning with an eye on continuous improvement.
• Strong consulting, coaching, and communication skills with all levels.
• High attention to detail and excited about managing both strategic initiatives and tactical tasks.
• Experience in owning projects and leveraging resources (COE’s) and peers to support in managing to completion.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with creative or tech companies and diverse communities.
• Experience working in scaling up startups/ processes.
• Understanding and experience with US and California labor laws. 

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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. 

We are seeking a versatile Sourcing & Analytics Manager to join our procurement team. This unique role is designed for a professional who thrives in both the tactical world of sourcing and the strategic world of business intelligence.

Initially, your time will be split between executing services-related sourcing projects and developing the analytical frameworks necessary to drive data-led decision-making across the department. You will serve as the "translator" between data resources and procurement leadership, ensuring our sourcing strategies are backed by robust, actionable insights.

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Sourcing: Lead the process of finding, sourcing, and maintaining key external relationships through expert negotiation and craft expertise.
• Bid Management: Craft and conduct comprehensive bid and evaluation processes including RFI, RFQ, and RFP.
• Contracting: Structure and negotiate vendor agreements, ensuring high levels of quality, service, and cost alignment.
• Advisory: Act as an embedded partner to provide best practices for vendor strategy and serve as an escalation point for commercial relationships.
• Holistic Strategy: Communicate across business units and pillars to find commonality among product teams and develop scalable contractual agreements.
• Insight Generation: Utilize data and analytics techniques to develop dashboards and reports that aid in executive decision-making, including but not limited to the development and maintenance of a vendor database feeding category analysis and project targeting.
• Adoption & Training: Engage sourcing staff to increase the application of analytics to new  procurement opportunities
• Metrics & Success Criteria: Use data guides and metrics to adapt efforts and ensure the satisfaction of internal partners.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field of study or equivalent experience 
• 6-8+ years experience in category sourcing, ideally within a non-mandated sourcing environment
• Experience working with procurement users to leverage quantitative analysis and financial/price modeling in decision-making
• Experience with rollout and training in support of procurement applications or vendor databases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex data in compelling ways to non-technical business partners
• Deep procurement domain expertise with the credibility to lead and mentor others
• Proven ability to foster trust and collaboration with internal customers and external vendors
• Ability to work independently with limited direction or supervision

Desired Qualifications:

• Curiosity to explore and implement AI solutions to analytics and visualization needs
• Experience with services-based contracts in support of creative game development is a plus
• Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, etc…
• Experience with collaboration and documentation tools like Notion, Confluence, Airtable, etc..
• Experience working in a fast-paced, operationally complex environment

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work.  Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As Software Engineers, we work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value.

As a Staff Software Engineer in Riot Data Foundations on the Data Experiences and Automation team, you will have the chance to affect how Riot collects and uses data to improve the experience for players and Rioters. You'll work closely with our product partner and technical lead to expand data consumption and reporting capabilities and build solutions to improve the development lifecycle for data engineers and insight analysts throughout the organization. You'll be helping as Riot enables advancements and fast iteration in Machine Learning and GenAI pipelines.You will bring your experience working with globally distributed systems and work with our team of software engineers to help build efficient solutions. You will report into the Engineering Manager of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Build and enhance systems that allow team members to more effectively engage with the tools in our data ecosystem. 
• Attend stand-ups and team rituals, and work with other software engineers to deliver on team goals
• Participate in code reviews with other members of the team
• Be part of an on-call rotation to support our live products
• Provide meaningful code reviews for other members of the team
• Work collaboratively with non technical customers to accomplish deliverables

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or comparable field
• Understanding of core data engineering concepts and data pipelines
• 7+ years experience in Python, and SQL
• 5+ years experience working with data warehousing 
• Experience in working in Agile and DevOps environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with ML Operations and GenAI pipelines and infrastructure
• Experience with open source ETL frameworks such as Airflow, Luigi, or similar

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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’s Data Engineers harness petabytes of data and state-of-the-art processing technologies to build products that elevate the player experience at massive scale. Turning this data into meaningful insights is a complex challenge, and our engineers meet it by staying deeply player-focused and collaborating across diverse teams to improve the lives of millions of players worldwide.

As a Principal Data Engineer supporting Riot’s Publishing Platform team, you will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and models that power critical data products, including centralized player data models, and publishing activity data systems. These systems support understanding of player onboarding funnels, engagement patterns, support efficiency, and content effectiveness. You will collaborate with product managers, analysts, and engineers to ensure our data infrastructure is reliable, performant, and directly tied to delivering better player experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL pipelines for structured and semi-structured data supporting Insights use cases, growth metrics, and other publishing/marketing focused data sets.
• Design and implement data models using industry best practices that capture a complete ecosystem view of in- and out-of-game experiences, while ensuring accuracy, scalability, and long-term usability.
• Architect and implement robust, maintainable, and high-performance data solutions.
• Automate workflows to reduce manual intervention and enhance data processing efficiency, including automation for content, growth, and pubsports areas of coverage.
• Mentor data engineers across all levels, setting best practices and fostering technical growth.
• Optimize query performance and resolve pipeline bottlenecks to improve data accessibility.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to advance data engineering capabilities.
• Support cost optimization by ensuring scalable and efficient data solutions.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Contribute to Riot’s Data Engineering discipline shaping infrastructure, craft standards, tooling, and organizational best practices

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years experience in tech-focused Publishing or Marketing fields.
• 8+ years experience in data engineering or a related field.
• Strong Expertise in big-data technologies, including Python, GoLang, Spark, Scala, SQL, and tools like Airflow and dbt.
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and Databricks.
• Expertise in designing efficient and scalable data models with large data sets across multiple teams and in collaboration with insights or data stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, analytics, and product teams.
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding other engineers.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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 Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Community Tech Team, you’ll work closely with world-class designers, technical product managers, and engineers to implement the suite of products helping empower third-party developers and content creators to enhance player engagement for our games. You will help build services and web apps that help power Riot’s third-party integrations as well as building solutions for content creators to enhance player engagement. You will report to the Manager, Software Engineering for the Community Tech Team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop end-to-end internal web applications and player-facing solutions
• Maintain and evolve distributed services serving high-traffic APIs used by Riot’s third-party applications
• Create high-quality software by writing unit, functional, and integration tests
• Partner with product, quality, user experience, and visual design to create the best possible experience for players
• Lead technical design and architecture for complex systems, driving long-term maintainability and scalability
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, architectural guidance, and best practice adoption

Required Qualifications:

• Full-stack software engineer with deep knowledge of modern frontend technologies
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Expertise with modern full-stack development, including Next.js and Typescript
• Professional experience and proficiency with services development (preferably Golang)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, web infrastructure, and tooling for automated testing and deployment
• Experience mentoring and elevating technical standards across a team

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with globally deployed platforms as well as distributed teams.
• Professional experience integrating web applications and services with Salesforce

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters and players, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As Software Engineers, we work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value.

Riot Client is the gateway to play for all of Riot's desktop experiences. Utilized by over 100 Million players across the globe to discover, install and play titles like League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics and more. We aspire to have Riot Client hyper serve players, providing them with the information they need to decide what they want to play, how they want to play it and with whom. As a Software Engineer on the Riot Client team, you'll create the desktop software that millions of players worldwide use to authenticate, install, patch, discover and launch Riot's games. Your work will be players' first touchpoint with the wide range of experiences that Riot has to offer - including League of Legends, VALORANT, Wild Rift, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and beyond. You will allow players to discover new games from the Riot ecosystem, unlock content, and promote overall deeper engagement. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Riot Client team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop desktop application features in C++ with an understanding of the backend to web frontend flow of the app 
• Create high-quality software by writing unit, functional, and automation tests
• Lead multi-week scope projects in collaboration with engineers on the team and partner teams
• Partner with product, quality, user experience, and visual design to create the best possible experience for both players and game developers
• Contribute to leveling up the team’s technical practices

Required Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of industry experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or comparable experience in software development
• Expertise with C++ in application development
• Experience in web development
• Experience working with complex code bases
• Experience of cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and QA

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience of working with desktop applications
• Experience of working with Electron
• Experience with build pipelines

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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. 

Technical Program Managers at Riot lead passionate, cross-functional teams to achieve player value through the delivery of large programs that are aligned with Riot's strategic priorities. 

As a Technical Program Manager III on the Program Management team in Publishing Platform, you will coordinate important development projects and lead the integration of Riot's games with Publishing Platform’s suite of products. You excel at condensing the million moving parts of platform development and game development into strategic points of focus between our development teams, smooth the process of platform development and integration before, during, and after launch. You will report to the Manager, Program Management.

Responsibilities:

• Align autonomous teams towards complex cross-pillar programs centered around Riot's strategic priorities.
• Create program plans with cross functional teams such as creative, architecture, operations, technical teams, and leadership.
• Plan and scope cross team projects within Publishing Platform.
• Evangelize processes and delivery methodologies to ensure we accomplish our program goals.
• Facilitate and manage Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large or team-of-team project teams.
• Report on program performance, ensuring each program achieves milestones against its objective.
• Organize program-level planning, communication, and team member rituals.
• Standardize communications best practices, nomenclature, and tools between platform teams and their customers.
• Manage risks and issues across programs and within teams.
• Foster transparency and predictability by building and maintaining roadmaps for assigned programs.
• Maintain partner relationships, providing visibility into workstreams and maintaining partner satisfaction.
• Assist in the creation of product release and go-to-market plans.
• Understand fiscal practices and controls, recording, and reporting on program expenditures & ROI.

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience
• Excellent teamwork, team leadership, communication, and stakeholder management
• Experience with iterative development methodologies like Scrum & Agile, and have used supporting software (i.e. JIRA)
• Experience in software development, infrastructure, or live operations management

Desired Qualifications:

• Previous program experience in a large distributed organization.
• Experience managing software/video game products through the entire life cycle – from conception, development and launch to maintaining and operating a live service.
• Experience working on a variety of software products in the gaming or entertainment space.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and collaboration that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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 Data Scientists combine their wide technical expertise across data processing, automation, machine learning ("ML"), artificial intelligence ("AI"), and experimental design to inform decisions and develop data-powered products.

As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer on the Publishing Platform Data team, you will define and drive the modeling architecture that powers personalization, matchmaking, and social experiences across Riot’s player ecosystem. You’ll partner closely with Product, Data Engineering, and Software Engineering to transform large-scale social graph, matchmaking, and behavioral data into adaptive, fair, and player-centric AI systems. Your work shapes how players connect, discover communities, and experience matchmaking that feels meaningful and equitable.

Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the modeling architecture for personalization, matchmaking, social graph recommendations, and player/community discovery.
• ‘Architect multi-model systems combining skill, preference, trust, and safety signals for fair and meaningful matchmaking
• Develop models for skill inference, player behavior prediction, trust & safety signals, and multi-objective optimization across fairness, latency, and experience quality.
• Build and optimize real-time inference systems for personalized content, store offers, matchmaking, and player interactions at global scale.
• Drive adoption of advanced modeling approaches including contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, graph ML, and session-aware personalization.
• Partner with Data Engineering and Product to shape data schemas, feature pipelines, telemetry standards, and model observability across the ML lifecycle.
• Define Responsible AI standards and implement fairness audits, bias mitigation, transparency, and safety mechanisms for matchmaking and social systems.
• Lead post-launch evaluations of algorithmic impact on player sentiment, community health, and ecosystem stability.
• Set organization-wide standards for model optimization (latency, throughput, memory), multi-model orchestration, and drift detection.
• Mentor senior ML engineers and data scientists, influencing system design, experimentation strategy, and modeling craft across organizations.
• Represent the ML discipline in cross-functional design reviews, driving alignment on technical decisions, data contracts, and long-term strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years in ML/Applied AI; 3+ years in principal/staff-level technical leadership.
• Experience with large-scale, real-time ML systems (recommendations, personalization, matchmaking).
• Expertise in graph ML, RL, and representation learning.
• Proficiency in PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, and modern data/serving tools (Ray, Kafka, Flink, Redis).
• Strong grounding in A/B testing, experiment design, and experience metrics.
• Track record of setting ML strategy and standards across teams.

Desired Qualifications:

• Professional background in gaming, player modeling, or social ecosystems.
• Experience with trust & safety, toxicity detection, or community health models.
• Familiarity with Vertex AI, SageMaker, or internal large-scale inference systems.
• Experience integrating ML systems with live-service game backends.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in many broader domains. As a Staff Software Engineer at Riot, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team goals. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

Riot Client is the gateway for millions of players to play, discover, and install Riot games, and every single desktop player goes through the Riot Client on their way to experience one of Riot’s games, ensuring their needs, whether they be providing more ways to discover games, engage with Riot’s culture & community, or getting into their game as fast as possible, is the primary goal of the Riot Client team. Introduced in 2021, the multi-game Riot Client is becoming a destination for players to engage with Riot games, events and communities, and is a fast-evolving desktop software that provides capabilities in game distribution, content publishing, social and internal development efficiency. Your work will be players' first touchpoint with the wide range of experiences that Riot has to offer, including League of Legends, Wild Rift, Teamfight Tactics, VALORANT, Legends of Runeterra, 2XKO, and beyond, and it is also an essential tool for internal game developers including live games and R&D games. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Riot Client team, you will drive technical excellence by delivering high-quality solutions and fostering a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering culture. You’ll guide and mentor engineers across the software development lifecycle, contributing both hands-on and through technical leadership. Working closely with cross-functional partners and collaborating across teams at Riot, you’ll help shape sound architectural decisions that elevate the player experience. Your contributions will be key to advancing Riot’s out-of-game ecosystem, enabling the next generation of Riot Client capabilities across game distribution, content, social features, and developer productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the development of desktop application features primarily using web technologies (React, Node.js), while integrating with C++ components, providing technical guidance and hands-on code contributions
• Provide technical leadership within the team and adjacent teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable engineering solutions
• Contribute to technical planning and architecture decisions, balancing long-term sustainability with near-term delivery needs
• Understand and navigate the Riot Client dependency landscape, helping guide improvements and evolution of the application
• Partner closely with cross-functional partners (product, production, QA, design, data) to deliver great player experiences
• Drive collaboration with partner teams to align on technical approaches and support shared solutions
• Mentor other engineers on technical and interpersonal skills

Required Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of industry experience in software engineering, with demonstrated technical leadership on complex projects
• Bachelor's, Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or comparable experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency with web technologies, with working experience integrating and contributing to C++ components
• Have been responsible for driving the design and leading of development of large-sized efforts (6-month+ scope), including requirements gathering, planning, development, testing, and release 
• Solid communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across disciplines and teams

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Electron 
• Experience in build pipelines

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As a software engineer, you'll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team goals. You'll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Senior Software Engineer on League of Legends, you’ll work with your engineering team to enable developers to create new around-game experiences that excite our new and long term players. You will report to the team’s Engineering Manager and work in a hybrid environment from our Los Angeles office.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain services integration layers that allow UI teams to reliably consume platform services data
• Lead technical design and implementation of systems leveraging your subject matter expertise in services integration 
• Partner with UI engineers across teams to design core client systems and reusable UI components
• Teach other engineers services integration patterns to standardize how services are integrated into around game features
• Consult with backend engineers to integrate experiences with various complex microservices
• Give input on the evolution of the existing proprietary UI development framework used to build UI in League of Legends
• Ensure exceptional code quality by adhering to engineering excellence which includes: code maintainability, quality, monitoring, code reviews, and documentation

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of game development experience
• 4+ years of professional experience in C++
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and software at a high scale
• Experience shipping software that deploys on a range of different platforms
• Experience collaborating across disciplines (e.g. Design, Art, QA, Production)
• Experience implementing software engineering best practices within your team, including design reviews, coding standards, code reviews, and testing
• Product sense, pragmatism, and player empathy in making tech decisions
• BS in Computer Science, or proven understanding of Computer Science fundamentals

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience playing League of Legends or strong motivation to learn and play
• Subject matter expertise building UI in games, including thorough understanding of common UI and software design patterns (e.g. MVC, MVVM)

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 Character Concept Artist at Riot, you will bring characters and creatures to life. Drawing inspiration from as little as a napkin sketch or as much as a full-blown narrative concept, you will generate ideas and craft designs that are resonant, compelling, and iconic. As a problem solver, first and foremost, you will help come up with visual solutions for game concepts.

As a Principal Character Concept Artist on the VALORANT team, you’ll be responsible for designing characters that fit the thematics and tone of the game, while helping to define a unique interpretation of the IP that fits within our genre and gameplay needs. You’ll partner with the Art Director and character art leaders as you work across disciplines to shape the visual identity of new characters. You will also collaborate closely with designers, writers, and producers to bring these characters to life through strong, story-driven design.

Responsibilities:

• Build, sketch, ideate, and iterate new character concepts in collaboration with other developers
• Craft detailed concept art and orthographics for 3D artists and animators to implement into working game assets
• A visual storyteller, able to design visual reads and details that breathe life into a character and communicate the core fantasy and persona in original ways that successfully push the boundaries of the VALORANT IP
• Creatively solve problems and figure out efficient solutions on executing the look and feel of the character
• Hold the Creative Vision and drive other discipline to build characters that are cohesive in their visuals, narrative, and gameplay
• Take your skillful knowledge of story tropes, archetypes, and narrative devices of all kinds to help improve the designs that go into our worlds.
• Bring your deep understanding of human and animal anatomy and know how to stretch the limits while still maintaining a consistent art direction.
• Mentor and support concept artists on your team through your craft

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in the video game industry as a Character Concept Artist
• 5+ years of experience working with Photoshop or other relevant painting/design tools
• Mastery of human and animal anatomy, color theory, value, and silhouette.
• A portfolio demonstrating not just high-quality stylized artwork, but the ability to solve complex design challenges (e.g., functional clothing, mechanical components, or unique silhouettes).
• Ability to transform creative briefs into a range of initial ideas and iteratively strengthen designs throughout the full development lifecycle.
• Experience mentoring other artists and working cross-functionally with 3D, Animation, and Narrative teams to bring a character from concept to ship.
• Exceptional skill in synthesizing contemporary styles and global trends into unique IP-specific aesthetics to drive character identity and visual storytelling.

Desired Qualifications:

• Shipped a AAA title as a Character Concept Artist
• Experience working as a Character Concept Artist on an FPS title
• Ability to create 3D proxies/blockouts or paint over 3D models as part of your visual design process.

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!

When submitting your application, please provide a portfolio of your high-quality concept art - including stylized artwork.

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to 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 Consumer Products wants every fan of Riot IP - past, present, and future - to feel proud to express their love of our IP through physical merchandise. We aim to build phenomenal products that legitimize that expression. From cute collectible figurines that brighten up any desk, to an exclusive hoodie that is only available to players at an Esports event, we look to create meaningful product experiences that fit into our players’ lifestyle and passions.

As the Softlines Product Category Manager, you’ll support passionate, diverse teams in making product dreams come true. You’ll operate in a highly entrepreneurial environment to drive the Softlines business, strategically guiding both our Riot-made products as well as licensed products and partner collaborations in meeting player demand across our full portfolio. You’ll take the lead in working cross-functionally with internal and external partner teams to ensure products are intentionally aligned, developmentally on track, and creatively merchandised and presented to players. From apparel to accessories to homegoods and beyond, you’ll play a dynamic role in delivering thoughtful physical product experiences for players around the globe all year long. 

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Vision: Support the development of the annual global category plan by setting strategic direction for OEM and licensed merchandise across Riot’s portfolio of intellectual property
• Category & Merchandising Strategy: Develop and execute comprehensive category strategies that align with brand and game objectives while meeting product lifecycle and merchandising goals
• P&L Management: Manage OEM P&L to ensure product lines meet budget and profitability targets while identifying opportunities for growth
• Licensee Management: Oversee licensee relationships from contract negotiation to execution, including onboarding, product line planning, marketing followthrough, and reporting retrospectives
• Market Analysis & Forecasting: Drive category growth by conducting detailed analyses of market trends, player feedback, and sales forecasts to inform product selection and inventory planning
• Marketing & Distribution Strategy: Partner with regional partners, eCommerce, and game teams to develop marketing plans and distribution plans
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with game teams, licensees, product development, regional teams and retail partners to create tailored product assortments and deliver on player needs
• Product Lifecycle Management: Strategically manage product lifecycle planning, ensuring timely launches, future product planning, and opportunities that align with player and market trends
• Industry & Market Insight: Research and monitor industry trends, player behavior, competitive landscape, and licensee performance to identify growth opportunities and white space for innovation

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or equivalent work experience
• Passion for building meaningful product experiences for our players
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing consumer products programs for entertainment and/or game IP
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in product or category management, product marketing, business development, or licensing roles preferred
• Proven success in cultivating strong relationships with a global network of licensees by category, manufacturers, and retailers
• Experience with project management tools (such as AirTable, Trello, or Asana) and spreadsheet programs (such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets) 
• Comfort with ambiguity and managing changing situations
• Highly organized and detail oriented

Desired Qualifications:

• Gaming experience with one or multiple of Riot's games
• Experience working on product development in a licensee or licensor capacity 

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 Senior Manager,  Equity Administrator, you will play a key role in leading the equity team that is responsible for Riot’s Equity programs including change management, scaling and enhancing processes controls and financial reporting. This role will oversee general Equity administration functions and will report to the Controller. This role is key in maintaining, designing and implementing core operation processes within Riot’s Global Equity program. To excel in this role, you’ll need to be a hands on problem solver, have a deep understanding of global equity administration, processes and a keen ability to collaborate cross-functionally. Additionally, you will need the confidence to navigate through ambiguity, be flexible and provide solutions to help us develop the best strategies for our unique equity programs.

Responsibilities:

• Help facilitate all aspects of the Company’s equity programs, including processing of new grants, vesting and distributions, as well as the review of equity transactions, terminations, and cancellations;
• Ensure accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of all equity data in the equity system of record, including overseeing tax reporting relating to equity awards
• Provide stock administration expertise and ensure compliance with company policies, relevant accounting guidance, securities laws, domestic and international tax regulations 
• Generate and maintain reporting of stock-based compensation data for accounting in accordance with GAAP and IFRS and provide support to external auditors for annual audits
• Coordinate with the Payroll, Legal, and People teams regularly to ensure efficiency in equity-related processes and resolve issues as they arise
• Lead employee trainings and communications around equity compensation and respond to employee inquiries regarding the equity incentive plan
• Work closely with the cross functional teams to implement and maintain appropriate controls around equity compensation processes
• Additional responsibilities for special projects as needed

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or Human Resources
• 7+ years of stock plan administration 
• 3+ years in a management role overseeing a team
• Experience with multiple equity instruments with a focus on global equity programs 
• Strong knowledge of all laws, regulations and statutes, both state and federal, relating to compensation and familiar with international securities and tax laws governing employee stock plans
• Solid written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to dissect tasks and dilemmas under a microscope, seeking out the root causes of any and all issues to formulate solutions

Desired Qualifications:

• Preferably a Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation or similar certification
• Preferred public and private equity management experience
• Experience with a stock repurchase and share exchange programs

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to 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 Principal Game Designer on League of Legends, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience as we set up League of Legends for its next 10 years. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity aid in crafting in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to innovate and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

As a Principal Game Designer specializing in meta-systems and progression, you’ll help shape how players engage with systems around the core gameplay loop and how they progress through the new player journey, seasonal content, and their overall player life cycle. You’ll partner with other designers, artists, and engineers to develop systems that provide meaningful progression, deep strategic choices, and rewarding long-term engagement. You’ll have significant League of Legends affinity and experience, understanding the challenges our players encounter and the motivations that drive them. You are comfortable operating in an ambiguous environment and able to design and iterate on new solutions to old problems. You will report to the Design Director for League of Legends.

Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve meta systems (e.g., progression, rewards, battle pass, quests, out-of-game content) to amplify player engagement and support overall product goals.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, artists, and other designers to ensure systems are cohesive, consistent, and in line with League of Legends’ overall vision.
• Keep the focus on player value by leveraging feedback, user research, and game data to iterate on designs and ensure high-quality experiences.
• Provide direction, mentorship, and feedback to other game designers, fostering an environment of collaboration and craft excellence.
• Research and champion new trends, tools, and technologies that can elevate League of Legends meta systems and keep them fresh, fun, and competitive.
• Maintain a player-first mindset in every decision. Embody Riot’s core values of player experience, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• Deep experience in developing a wide variety of meta-systems
• Ability to analyze complex data sets and translate findings into innovative design solutions that resonate with players.
• Experience working in a “games as a service” environment.
• High familiarity with League of Legends game experience.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with what approaches to design best meet MOBA players’ needs.
• Experience as a senior thought leader of materially-impactful world-class innovations on a commercial video game
• An intuitive sense of player motivations, behaviors, and feedback loops in competitive multiplayer environments

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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’s Internal Comms team members endeavor to shape our internal environment by crafting communication plans and programs that celebrate Riot’s playful, informal, and passionate culture.

We strive to communicate with a balance of transparency and clarity that’s smart, well-crafted, and authentic. We cover everything vital to internal messaging and work across all teams to create a passionate and ongoing, lively two-way conversation between Riot and Rioters on the issues that matter most to players and to us. We love games and enjoy telling the emotionally resonant stories that connect us to players and our mission. 

As the Head of Product Internal Communications & Product Team Internal Comms Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in defining, aligning, and amplifying the stories of Riot’s product organization. This role will serve two primary functions:

1. Head of Product Internal Comms: You’ll develop and own the narrative arc for Riot’s product portfolio each year, connecting the dots between our product strategy, team milestones, and player impact. You’ll build, maintain, and own the overarching roadmap for all major product comms touchpoints, ensuring that communication across Riot’s product lines feels cohesive, timely, and resonant with our mission and culture.
   
   
2. Product Team Internal Comms Lead: You’ll lead all internal communications for a major product team, crafting and executing comms strategies that keep Rioters connected to the team’s progress, vision, and wins. You’ll be accountable for all team-wide and company-wide moments related to the product, ensuring that Rioters everywhere understand how the work of the team contributes to Riot’s broader goals, mission, and player experience.
   
   

This role is for a strong storyteller and systems thinker who can translate complex product strategy into emotionally resonant, clear, and actionable narratives for Rioters. You’ll partner closely with senior product and studio leadership, manage Riot’s internal comms product leads, and collaborate with external communications partners to ensure Riot’s product storytelling feels unified, inspiring, and authentic.

Responsibilities:

Narrative Development & Strategy

• Build and drive the annual product communications narrative arc that connects Riot’s product strategy to our cultural and business priorities.
• Partner closely with senior product leaders to define and articulate the stories that unite our portfolio across Riot
• Ensure communications for product milestones, launches, and updates are coordinated across the organization, connecting themes and timing into one cohesive comms roadmap.

Product Team Internal Communications Leadership

• Serve as the primary comms lead for a major product team’s internal storytelling and team-wide communication moments.
• Design and execute communications that help Rioters across Riot understand and celebrate the team’s vision, achievements, and player impact.
• Lead all-hands, milestone moments, and company-wide product team updates, balancing transparency, clarity, and inspiration.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with other internal comms leads and external communications partners to align messaging and ensure Riot’s product storytelling remains cohesive and impactful.
• Provide strategic guidance to product teams on how to communicate effectively across Rioters globally.
• Develop frameworks, playbooks, and scalable approaches for product communication that can be adopted across teams.

Measurement & Optimization

• Define success metrics for internal product communications; measure resonance, reach, and effectiveness of key communications initiatives.
• Continuously evaluate and evolve communication approaches based on Rioter sentiment and organizational needs.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Manage and mentor other product-focused internal comms leads, fostering growth, alignment, and excellence across the discipline.
• Build strong partnerships with leaders across Riot to anticipate needs, manage expectations, and elevate storytelling quality.

Required Qualifications:

• You’ve been working within the comms space serving internal and/or external audiences for at least eight years; ideally your experience indexes deep into communicating about organizational change.
• Must have at least 8 years of message-crafting experience for global audiences.
• Proven experience developing and executing large-scale internal communication strategies for complex organizations.
• Experience managing and developing communications professionals, including coaching, performance development, and guiding comms teams through complex, fast-moving work.
• Demonstrated success leading narrative strategy and communications planning across multiple business units or product lines.
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence at the senior leadership level.
• You have a broad comms toolkit that you use to master any communication task at hand. 
• You exercise great discretion as it relates to confidential and sensitive information.
• You’re an excellent partner and know how to work cross functionally to get the job done.
• You know how to measure the impact and resonance of your work. 
• You have a strong understanding of current trends in the internal comms space, with the experience to back it up.
• You're tilt-proof, and can flexibly respond to sensitive situations in an assuring manner.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience leading communications for large-scale creative or product organizations.
• Familiarity with product development lifecycles and game studio culture.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities with calm and confidence.
• Passion for gaming and empathy for the player experience is a huge 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. 

As the Senior Talent Management Program Manager, you’ll drive innovative and agile solutions to enhance Riot’s talent management programs and processes aligned with Riot’s mission, vision, and strategic goals. Reporting to the Director of Talent Management, you’ll use your expertise in managing and executing on talent programs and processes to deliver a suite of Riot-wide global solutions. These include but are not limited to goal setting, performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and feedback tools, among other opportunities for impact. This individual contributor role will coordinate complex workstreams across teams and stakeholders, and take a lead role in delivering core Talent People Processes. This role offers a highly collaborative, high-visibility opportunity to contribute to strategic, impactful talent initiatives in a fast-paced, mission-driven organization.

Responsibilities:

Program Design and Delivery

• Execute global talent management programs, including goal setting, feedback, performance reviews, talent reviews/succession planning, promotion cycles and other initiatives.
• Lead the continuous improvement of program design and execution based on metrics, feedback, organizational needs, and user experience.
• Support program strategies and roadmaps, ensuring alignment with Riot’s goals and values. 
• Act as a trusted advisor, responding to stakeholder inquiries and requests.

Process Management 

• Plan and execute against project plans and operations for talent programs, collaborating with stakeholders such as HRBPs, People Systems, and other People Team members.
• Partner with the People Systems team to ensure talent tools and systems are optimized, configured, and ready for use. 
• Manage data flow and analytics related to talent programs and outcomes, ensuring data integrity and appropriate security around sensitive information.
• Ensure consistent program delivery across regions by collaborating with regional stakeholders.

Communication and Change Management

• Support program communication and change management across Riot stakeholders, including employees, managers, HRBPs, and leaders.
• Maintain dashboards, prepare reports, and distill actionable insights on program outcomes with key stakeholders, enabling better decision-making for individuals, teams, and Riot as a whole.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with global stakeholders, HRBPs, and cross-functional partners to ensure effective delivery of solutions.
• Partner with L&D and Internal Communications to develop and refresh training materials and resources.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Experience: 6+ years in HR with at least 2 years focused on talent management or leadership development.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Strong knowledge of talent management processes, including performance management, promotions, talent review, and succession planning. Broad knowledge of other HR disciplines is helpful.
• Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analytics and tools such as MS Excel/Google Sheets; ability to maintain data integrity and leverage insights for decision-making.
• Project & Task Management: Demonstrated ability to scope, lead, and deliver complex projects. Ability to prioritize and focus on mission-critical tasks among competing business requirements.
• Problem Solving: Critical thinker with a proactive approach to identifying issues and removing barriers. Appropriate balance of subject matter expertise and pragmatism of how to apply theory in a fast-paced business environment
• Interpersonal Skills: High integrity, discretion, and executive presence; ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Quality Orientation: Highly organized with a strong attention to detail.

Desired Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of the theory, application, and best practice methods across key HR domains, including performance management, career/leadership development, assessments, and compensation, and how they collectively influence organizational effectiveness.
• Experience implementing HR Programs in fast-paced global organizations, particularly in creative, technology, or gaming industries.
• Familiarity with Workday and Google Suite functionality.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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.

Engineering managers at Riot are technical leaders first — they stay close to the craft, make grounded architectural decisions, and earn credibility through the quality of their technical judgment. They are also deeply invested in people: building diverse teams, growing individual careers, and creating environments where engineers do the best work of their lives. The best Riot engineering managers hold both of these responsibilities without trading one for the other.

AI Foundations (AIF) designs and operates Riot's production execution layer for models, agents, and AI-native workflows. The organization has three teams: ML Platform (model hosting, inference, lifecycle tooling), ML Bots (game-agent runtime and training), and Production AI (AI developer workflows, tooling, and vendor management), plus a small leadership staff. Together, these teams serve every game studio and central team at Riot that wants to use AI. As the Senior Manager, ML Engineering for AI Foundations, you will lead the group's engineering managers and a set of senior ICs, owning the organization's mid-term (~1 year) technical and capability roadmap. You will be accountable for coherent engineering practice across the three sub-teams, for the group's combined delivery against strategic commitments, and for building the kind of engineering culture that attracts and retains strong ML talent. This is a servant-leadership role on a team full of servant leaders. You succeed when frontline managers have the context they need to lead, senior ICs have room to focus, and teams across Riot can adopt AI with confidence. You will partner with peer leaders in game studios and central teams to understand their AI adoption challenges and feed those patterns back into the platforms and tools your teams build. You will report to the Director of AI Foundations.

Responsibilities

• Own the group's mid-term (~1 year) capability roadmap and 1+ year technical strategy; balance investment across custom platforms and tool adoption based on where Riot gets the most value.
• Track adoption and impact metrics; re-prioritize based on usage data and partner feedback.
• Ensure coherent technical direction across sub-teams; connect local tech strategy to Riot's broader AI direction. Contribute to architecture discussions, code when it helps, and support design cross-team decisions.
• Set a high bar for craft, operational rigor, and continuous learning; codify and share best practices for production ML (serving, MLOps, observability, responsible AI) so lessons from one team benefit all.
• Establish shared operational practices including cross-team on-call; maintain high ML system and model quality; ensure adherence to Responsible AI standards including fairness, explainability, and safety.
• Manage MLE team leads and senior ICs; coach managers to maintain a high performance bar and build growth plans.
• Develop ML engineering leaders; mentor ICs into management or senior technical roles; drive promotions at the Staff and Principal levels.
• Align staffing against AIF priorities, development goals, and career paths; own headcount requests (FTE and contractor). Partner with the talent team; set staffing priorities for technical roles in AIF; work with hiring managers around Riot to improve hiring practices for AI-related roles.
• Work with AIF leadership to establish operational and tooling budgets, including training, travel, and conference investment.
• Build alignment with game studios, central tech teams, and vendor partners; identify and de-risk dependencies. Manage AI vendor relationships (evaluation, integration, ongoing partnership) in coordination with AIF leadership.
• Make the transition from Tech Research to production repeatable, with clear handoff practices so promising research reaches players and Rioters.
• Advocate for AI-native workflows within AIF and across Riot; ensure stakeholders know what AIF is building, why, and how to engage. Make grounded build-vs.-adopt recommendations.
• Encourage teams to share what they learn — write-ups, demos, reusable components — so others across Riot can adopt AI more easily.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field (or equivalent experience); 10+ years of industry experience including experience as a Senior ML Engineer or higher.
• 4+ years of management experience, including managing managers or team leads. Track record of building engineering culture by enabling the people around you.
• Evidence of shipping production ML systems that other teams depend on, with real operational weight. Working knowledge of model serving, CI/CD for ML, observability, and cost tradeoffs even if you're not writing code daily.
• Experience translating technical vision into a roadmap your teams executed against, with evidence of course-correcting when priorities shifted.
• Strong collaboration across ML, platform, product, and game development teams; track record of alignment across org boundaries. Experience making AI accessible to teams without deep ML expertise

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 UX Designers at Riot, we are responsible for design work in high-scope product areas that are complex and ambiguous. Our work includes end-to-end experience design for both players and internal customers, often spanning multiple features and teams. We work from concept through development, participate in agile product development, and partner closely with Visual Design, Research, Product, and Engineering to achieve our goals.

As a Senior User Experience Designer on the Publishing Platform Esports team, you’ll design and deliver core esports experiences that connect players and fans to Riot’s competitive ecosystem. You will focus on end-to-end UX for Riot’s esports owned-and-operated sites, as well as how esports content and features are experienced across the broader Riot ecosystem.In this role, you’ll be responsible for designing scalable, high-impact fan experiences such as Pick’Em and Crystal Ball across all Riot esports. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Visual Design to translate complex requirements into clear, intuitive experiences that support both near-term product delivery and long-term ecosystem growth.

Responsibilities:

• Leading UX design across multiple fan-focused workstreams, focusing on user flows and interaction design
• Synthesizing Riot’s existing body of player knowledge and insights from Design, Research, and customer support to shape experience principles, define opportunity spaces, and guide product investment
• Mentoring early career designers as an active member of Riot UX 
• Partnering with Research to plan and execute customer outreach, or orchestrating your own customer outreach activities
• Delivering appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g. strategy, research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, and/or prototypes)
• Communicating data-informed vision and design rationale to drive shared alignment and collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Actively participating in the Riot UX community, seeking and providing feedback on your work and processes

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience designing digital experiences, products, and platforms as a User Experience Designer or Interaction Designer
• Proficient with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch or other industry-standard design and prototyping tools
• Experience designing and releasing consumer web experiences (responsive desktop + mobile)
• A professional portfolio with examples of your past work.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Figma 
• Familiarity with or experience designing web experiences for eCommerce, creator platforms, progression systems, or the entertainment industry (movies, TV, video games, music, etc.)

We will review case studies of your past work as a part of the application process, so please provide a portfolio link or PDF (as a cover letter) with your application.

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. 

About Riot Insights

The Insights discipline empowers Rioters to make player-focused, data‑informed decisions. We are an interdisciplinary group of scientists, analysts, and strategists who illuminate the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of players so Riot can deliver meaningful value across games and beyond.

About the Ecosystem Insights Team

The Ecosystem Insights team serves as Riot’s underwriting body for major ecosystem bets ensuring investments across Esports, Publishing, Platform, CPX, and Entertainment are grounded in rigorous, player‑centric evidence. The team connects around‑game experiences to downstream player and business outcomes and partners directly with EcoLT to inform strategy, prioritization, and long‑term investment decisions.

The Role 

As Principal Analyst, Ecosystem Insights, you are a senior individual contributor and technical authority responsible for defining how ecosystem value is measured and operationalized. You will lead the development of ecosystem‑level KPI frameworks, attribution models, and analytical systems that enable Riot to quantify how around‑game experiences influence retention, engagement, sentiment, and re‑activation across the portfolio.

This role is not a reporting or service function. It is a strategic IC role that blends advanced analytics, systems thinking, and stakeholder influence. You will own the most complex analytical problem spaces on the team and act as a craft leader for ecosystem measurement and modeling.

Responsibilities:

Ecosystem Measurement & Analytics Leadership

• Design and operationalize attribution models that link ecosystem activity (content, platform usage, esports engagement) to downstream player lifecycle outcomes.
• Translate ecosystem strategy questions into rigorous analytical approaches, including segmentation, forecasting, and causal inference where appropriate.
• Define, steward, and evolve ecosystem‑level KPI frameworks that quantify player and business impact across Esports, Publishing, Platform, CPX, and Entertainment.

Strategic Decision Support

• Identify high‑leverage ecosystem opportunity and risk areas through proactive analysis.
• Synthesize complex analytical findings into clear, decision‑ready insights for EcoLT and senior ecosystem leaders.
• Partner with Ecosystem Insights research leads to integrate qualitative understanding with quantitative models and metrics.

Data Systems & Infrastructure Partnership

• Partner closely with Central Data Engineering and Analytics Enablement to design scalable pipelines, data models, and dashboards supporting ecosystem measurement.
• Establish standards for data quality, metric definitions, and analytical repeatability across ecosystem surfaces.
• Enable experimentation and longitudinal analysis across ecosystem touchpoints in collaboration with platform and product teams.

Craft Leadership

• Serve as a senior analytics craft expert within Ecosystem Insights, setting a high bar for rigor, clarity, and technical excellence.
• Introduce new analytical methods, tools, or frameworks that improve how ecosystem value is understood and measured.

Required Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience in analytics, data science, strategy, or related fields, with demonstrated impact in complex, cross‑functional environments.
• Proven experience designing and scaling KPI frameworks, measurement systems, or attribution models across multiple products or business lines.
• Strong applied experience with advanced analytical techniques such as segmentation, regression, causal inference, forecasting, or experimentation.
• Deep proficiency in SQL and strong working knowledge of Python and/or R for analysis and modeling.
• Experience partnering with data engineering, product, publishing, or platform teams to operationalize analytics systems.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and non‑technical stakeholders through clear analytical narratives.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on ecosystem, portfolio, or platform‑level analytics (beyond a single product or game).
• Familiarity with esports, media, creator ecosystems, or entertainment analytics.
• Experience with dashboarding and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Hex) in service of strategic decision‑making.
• Experience mentoring senior analysts or acting as a craft leader without formal people management.
• Graduate degree in analytics, statistics, engineering, or a related field.

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. 

About Riot Insights

The Insights discipline empowers Rioters to make player-focused, data-informed decisions. We are an interdisciplinary group of scientists, consultants, and strategists who illuminate the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of players so Riot can deliver meaningful value across games and beyond.

About the Ecosystem Insights Team

The Ecosystem Insights team serves as Riot’s underwriting body for major ecosystem bets ensuring investments across Esports, Publishing, Platform, CPX, and Entertainment are grounded in rigorous, player-centric evidence. The team works on connecting around-game experiences to downstream player and business outcomes, and partners directly with EcoLT to inform strategy, prioritization, and long-term investment decisions.

The Role

As Senior Insights Manager, Ecosystem Insights you will be a hands-on research leader and strategic partner, owning complex ecosystem research problems end to end. You will design and execute mixed-methods research that clarifies how and why around-game experiences create value for players, and translate those findings into clear, decision-ready guidance for senior stakeholders.

This role emphasizes strong individual ownership, craft excellence, and influence through insight, with people management responsibilities. You will lead through expertise, problem framing, and partnership, while also supporting the growth and effectiveness of a small number of researchers contributing to ecosystem work.

Responsibilities:

Ecosystem Research Ownership

• Own ecosystem-level research initiatives from problem framing through delivery (e.g., player journey mapping, ecosystem value drivers, hypothesis validation).
• Design and execute mixed-methods research (qualitative, quantitative, behavioral) to answer ambiguous, high-impact ecosystem questions.
• Develop clear research frameworks and hypotheses that ladder into ecosystem health and player lifecycle outcomes.

Strategic Decision Support

• Synthesize complex findings into concise, decision-ready narratives for EcoLT and senior product leaders.
• Support underwriting of major ecosystem bets by evaluating expected player and business impact, tradeoffs, and risks using evidence-based analysis.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with analytics counterparts to align research insights with KPI frameworks, attribution models, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with Publishing, Platform, CPX, and Esports partners to ensure research is grounded in real decisions and informs prioritization.
• Act as a thought partner in early discovery, helping stakeholders sharpen questions before solutions are defined.

Research Craft & People Leadership

• Maintain a high bar for methodological rigor, synthesis, and storytelling.
• Provide day-to-day coaching and feedback to researchers contributing to ecosystem work, supporting strong problem framing, method selection, and insight synthesis.
• Support the growth and performance of direct reports through regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and actionable feedback aligned to Insights craft standards.
• Contribute to shared research standards, templates, and best practices across Insights.
• Manage external research vendors on scoped projects as needed.

Required Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of experience in insights, research, or related roles, with deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative research.
• Demonstrated experience owning complex research programs independently in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Strong applied experience with mixed-methods approaches and translating findings into strategic recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear narratives and evidence.
• Proven track record of effective cross-functional partnership with product, strategy, analytics, or publishing teams.
• Experience providing people management including mentoring or managing researchers, delivering feedback, and supporting individual growth and performance.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on ecosystem-level, portfolio-level, or cross-product research (e.g., publishing, platforms, media, live services).
• Familiarity with esports, creator ecosystems, or entertainment-adjacent player experiences.
• Experience informing KPI frameworks tied to player lifecycle outcomes such as retention, re-engagement, or advocacy.
• Comfort operating with evolving definitions, incomplete data, and long-term strategic horizons.

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the League of Legends Quality Team, you will define and drive the technical vision for our core automation frameworks, ensuring the highest standards of quality across the League of Legends ecosystem. Your work will empower engineers across multiple initiatives—ranging from gameplay mechanics to skin development—by providing reliable, scalable frameworks that support efficient and robust testing practices.

In this role, you'll report directly to the Engineering Manager and play a key leadership role in cross-team collaboration. You’ll work closely with engineers and QA across Riot to align on quality frameworks and workflows, elevate the developer experience, and improve the overall quality of our products.

We primarily use C++ for game and tooling logic, and Python to drive our test automation and validation systems.

Responsibilities:

• Collaboration with diverse teams to ensure features accomplish expectations from multiple dimensions (code quality, extensibility, modularity, scalability, security, operational concerns, and industry standards/trends)
• Work and align with different partners that span across multiple teams to ensure we're delivering awesome features to excite them
• Setting the tone for, contributing to, and defining technical discussions/designs that your team is accountable for
• Mentorship. You help Rioters develop the tools and creative atmosphere to shine, but ultimately hold them accountable for making smart calls and delivering player value
• Participate in the team's support rotation

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of deep hands-on experiences with compiled programming languages (C/C++, Java, Go, or C#)
• 3+ years building and maintaining automated tests for games, web, mobile, backend services, or desktop applications (scope depending on role level).
• Experience with C/C++ that spans various use-cases and platforms.
• Have been responsible for driving value through leading the development of organization-sized efforts (1-year+ scope), including requirements gathering, planning, testing, and release or deployment
• Championed software development best practices within your organization that includes design/code reviews, coding standards, source control management, testing, delivery performance, scalability, and maintainability
• You have a strong history of mentoring others in both soft and hard skills

Desired Qualifications

• Leveraged machine learning, AI, and/or functional testing techniques to enhance automated testing workflows, enabling smarter test case prioritization, anomaly detection, and adaptive regression coverage across complex game systems.
• 2+ years experience utilizing computer vision in support of automation tests

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As Engineering Managers, we gain organizational alignment by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to organizational design. We also serve as mentors for a team of engineers, overseeing their performance and trying to find stretch opportunities for their growth while maintaining a focus on results.

DevCon (Developer Connections) connects developers across Riot to help them ship games reliably and efficiently. Positioned at the intersection of Game Studios, R&D, and Central Tech, the team stays closely aligned with development needs to unblock teams and support critical launch milestones. Within DevCon, the Release team builds and operates the systems that enable safe, consistent, and reliable game releases across regions and platforms. They partner with studios and platform teams to centralize release practices, reduce deployment risk, and simplify increasingly complex live operations across services, clients, and publishing workflows. As the Manager, Software Engineering for DevCon Release, you will lead the strategy and execution of Riot’s centralized release capabilities. You’ll translate vision into a clear roadmap, drive delivery across a broad technical landscape, and ensure systems scale across multiple games and platforms. This role requires strong product judgment, stakeholder alignment, and operational rigor, working closely with partners to identify release friction, prioritize impactful improvements, and drive adoption of consistent release patterns, all while maintaining high reliability in a space where issues directly affect players.

Responsibilities:

• Own product execution for Riot’s centralized release capabilities - translating strategic direction into a clear, prioritized roadmap
• Define milestones, manage tradeoffs, and ensure consistent delivery across a complex and evolving technical surface area.
• Build and drive strong cross-functional partnerships with game teams, Publishing Platform, and Central Tech partners.
• Develop a deep understanding of release workflows across multiple games and regions, and ensure our solutions meaningfully reduce friction and risk.
• Champion adoption and measurable impact, while ensuring our release systems are trusted and widely adopted. 
• Track and improve key indicators such as release reliability, deployment clarity, and operational efficiency -balancing long-term platform investments with near-term customer value.
• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team - owning performance management, team health, hiring, and career development.
• Create clarity of purpose and ensure engineers understand how their work connects to DevCon and Riot’s broader mission.
• Maintain a high operational bar in a player-facing domain - releasing systems directly affect players.
• Ensure strong observability, incident response maturity, and continuous improvement practices that reduce release risk across regions and platforms.

Required Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 2+ years working in an engineering management position
• Proficient with Scrum/Agile development methodologies

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience releasing or operating live games in a professional capacity
• Experience owning or partnering closely on release, deployment, or publishing workflows
• Familiarity with multi-region or multi-platform release environments
• Experience collaborating across game teams and central platform organizations
• Experience serving in a product ownership capacity

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll predominantly offer creative solutions to organizational design. You’ll also serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability. Developer Connections (DevCon) connects developers across the globe, enabling them to ship games reliably and efficiently. Sitting at the crossroads of Game Studios, R&D, and Central Tech, DevCon keeps a pulse on development across Riot. Our mission is to unblock teams and empower them to hit key milestones, ensuring that future games reach players on time and at quality. Within DevCon, the Client Build team provides the build infrastructure, orchestration, and solutions that game teams rely on to stay focused on creating the game itself.

As a Manager, Software Engineering for Client Build, your mission is to make working game builds available to developers—and eventually players—with minimal investment from the game teams. To succeed, you’ll need to understand both the technical details of how builds are created and the broader impact they have on developer experience. You will report to the Sr. Manager, Software Engineering for Developer Connections.

Responsibilities:

• Own the build farms for all of Riot’s games!  You will be expected to understand your customers and their specific needs, industry trends and changes, and other central efforts.  You’ll influence product direction and prioritization based on all of these factors combined with our existing technical capabilities.
• Drive positive outcomes for customers!  Customers see your team as vital to their success.  This includes proactive communication with customers and stakeholders, prioritizing value over idealism, and fostering a culture of accountability.
• Manage the team.  You own performance management, team health, and support the engineers’ careers through mentorship and identifying growth opportunities
• Operational Excellence.  You’re committed to keeping systems operationally globally and own a healthy on-call rotation.  Your off-hours pages are rare due to investments you make into redundancy and automated recovery.  Your team is well equipped to find failures before your customers do, and mitigate quickly before they lead to significant impact.
• Ensure that your team always understands why we’re doing this.  All your engineers are  able to connect their work back to DevCon and Riot’s mission.  DevCon often pushes into uncharted territory, you provide the clarity to help the team navigate uncertainty.

Required Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 2+ years working in an engineering management position
• Proficient with Scrum/Agile development methodologies

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Build technologies, bonus for Unreal Engine games specifically
• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices
• Experience shipping games
• Experience serving in a product ownership role

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. 

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. 

The Technical Art Director is responsible for ensuring our content creation ecosystem is efficient, scalable and built to support both creative excellence and production realities. As part of the Technical Art team, this role establishes the pipelines, tools and foundational workflows that enable our teams to deliver the game to players. The Technical Art Director continuously evaluates and improves workflows, pipelines, tools and processes so teams can create high quality content with speed and confidence, bringing expert-level knowledge of 3D content creation and problem-solving to drive best practices across asset production.

As Director, Technical Art in R&D, you are the Art Director’s primary technical partner. Working closely with Engineering, you will own the technical health of content creation across the game. You are responsible for solving the most complex content-related technical challenges by breaking them into clear, executable solutions, building the right team to deliver against milestones, and ensuring our workflows scale as the project grows. You champion forward-looking tools and technologies that meaningfully support product goals, including identifying when new expertise is required and hiring specialists to meet those needs. You know how to translate an ambitious art vision into performant, sustainable systems that ship to players.

Responsibilities:

Pipeline, Workflow and Technical Strategy

• Own the vision, standards and execution of content creation workflows and pipelines across Characters, Environments, VFX, UI, SFX and Cinematics
• Continuously evaluate tools, processes and pipelines to surface inefficiencies and drive improvements that increase iteration speed and reliability
• Ensure artistic ambition is supported by efficient, scalable and sustainable solutions that meet memory and performance requirements
• Partner with Engineering to ensure all solutions align with development standards and technical best practices
• Evaluate when to leverage existing Riot technical art solutions versus building new technology to meet project needs

Technology Leadership and Innovation

• Identify opportunities to apply new tools, procedural approaches, and automation to improve workflow efficiency and unlock creative potential
• Champion future-facing technologies that align with the project vision and production realities
• Define and maintain a technical art roadmap that supports current milestones and long-term sustainability

Team Leadership and Discipline Growth

• Build, lead and mentor technical artists and technical art leads, with clear accountability for growth and career development
• Establish staffing plans and ensure appropriate allocation of technical artists across teams to meet product goals
• Partner with project leadership and recruiting to grow the technical art discipline utilizing a mixture of internal and external resources
• Collaborate with other Technical Art Directors to align on shared standards and a cohesive vision across the studio

Hands-On Contribution and Collaboration

• Contribute as an individual contributor on select high-impact tools and pipeline initiatives
• Work directly with artists and other clients to gather requirements and validate solutions
• Ensure artists and technical artists have the tools, support and guidance needed to succeed

Required Qualifications: 

• 13+ years of professional experience as a technical artist
• 5+ years of professional experience managing other technical artists
• Expertise with Maya, scripting in Python, and modern game engines
• Experience with and commitment to building long-term maintainable, testable, portable, and stable systems
• Experience building strategic visions and pipelines, and working within cross team leadership 
• Highly proficient communication skills and capacity to act as an ambassador between art and engineering
• Superb critical thinking skills, particularly as it pertains to translating artistic requirements to sustainable workflow design

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience developing tools and systems using C++, HLSL, or scripting frameworks (e.g. Blueprints or Python)
• Strong understanding of 3D math and computer graphics
• Leading pipeline development for a live game 

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. 

Research Scientists at Riot combine deep technical expertise across machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), experimental design, and systems engineering to invent new ways players experience games. As a Staff Research Scientist, you push the boundaries of what’s possible and raise the bar for research quality and its translation into extraordinary gameplay.

The Technology Research team performs applied research to accelerate the pace of building amazing player experiences at Riot Games. As a Staff Research Scientist, you will research and develop world models—learned representations that understand, predict, and simulate game environments. Rather than building general-purpose large language models, you will focus on models that capture the structure and dynamics of Riot's games: how state evolves, how players behave, and how design changes ripple through complex systems. Your work will power scalable simulation for agent training, automated game balancing, synthetic data generation, and new forms of language-conditioned game interaction. You will stay deeply hands-on, turning advances in predictive simulation, latent state representations, and environment modeling into concrete prototypes that game teams can evaluate and build on. You will work closely with game teams to ground your research in real gameplay needs and partner across Technology Research to connect world models with game AI and NLP efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Propose, implement, and evaluate world models that learn latent representations of game state, player behavior, and environment dynamics
• Build predictive simulations that enable agent training, game balance testing, and rapid design iteration without full game server overhead
• Develop methods for synthetic data generation and auto-balancing powered by learned environment models
• Explore language-conditioned approaches that combine large language models with state estimators to enable new forms of game interaction
• Work closely with game teams to understand gameplay needs and design constraints, ensuring research is grounded in real player experiences
• Partner with game AI and NLP researchers to integrate world models into broader AI systems across Technology Research
• Stay current with academic and industry advances in world models, predictive simulation, representation learning, and environment modeling (e.g., MuZero, Gato, Dreamer)
• Communicate progress and learnings clearly to stakeholders, helping teams understand both what works and what doesn’t

Required Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, Math, or related Computer Science/Quantitative field, or equivalent experience (i.e., M.Sc. with 3+ years of relevant experience, or B.Sc. with over 6+ years of relevant experience, etc.)
• 2+ years experience in deep learning or algorithmic foundations of optimization
• Experience with generative models, representation learning, model-based reinforcement learning, or learned simulation
• Proficiency in C, C++, or Python
• Expertise with TensorFlow or PyTorch

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building or training world models, dynamics models, or latent-space simulators (e.g., Dreamer, MuZero, or similar architectures)
• Familiarity with game engines (e.g., Godot, Unity, or Unreal) for prototyping or data collection
• Distributed computing systems design or large-scale model training infrastructure
• Experience with GCP or AWS
• Demonstrated contributions to public research (e.g., publications, talks, open-source projects)

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. 

Creative eXpressions at Riot strives to deliver lasting sonic experiences for players. As an Interactive Music Designer, you will combine your passion for music with cutting-edge interactive technology to create dynamic and immersive musical experiences that elevate gameplay to new heights. Joining efforts with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll help drive game projects from their inception. As a member of the audio discipline, you’ll strive to find ways to teach and level up those around you while continuing to challenge and grow yourself.

As an Interactive Music Designer on Creative eXpressions, you will have the opportunity to craft interactive music experiences that resonate with players, enhancing their immersion in the world of League of Legends and TFT. Your creative contributions will play a pivotal role in shaping the soundscape of our games, enriching the overall player experience. Through collaboration with cross-functional teams, you will ensure that every note harmonizes seamlessly with the interactive elements of the game. You will merge elements of music composition and interactive technology to create immersive and dynamic musical experiences. This will involve working with Audio Leads and Audio Director to identify opportunities to heighten the game experience, collaborating with engineering in the implementation of world class systems that will adapt the music in real-time to different events and player actions within the game. 

Responsibilities:

• Work along-side game engineers, game designers and sound designers to develop the framework of music playback systems based on Product teams’ creative vision and gameplay needs
• Execute on Audio direction
• Define and apply best practices of interactive music workflows and systems to support project needs
• Act as a liaison to advocate for music to the engineering staff, and partner with team members across disciplines to find solutions that best support the gameplay experience
• Create and implement AAA-quality in-game music assets via Wwise and proprietary software
• Optimize and refine music pipelines across League Studio games
• Identify, create, grow and troubleshoot music features and functionality
• Develop, document and prototype efficient pipelines or workflows for interactive music
• Setup new pipelines within Perforce and Wwise project
• Manage Wwise project organization, structures, gameplay parameter setups and optimizations
• Mix music in game using middleware and engine feature sets
• Work with external vendors to ensure they deliver high-quality work
• Collaborate with Audio Leads and Product Stakeholders to define appropriate processes and pipelines for effective music content delivery
• Collaborate with central teams to ensure thematic consistency across in-game and out-of-game features

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Music in the games industry with at least 3 years of hands-on experience with interactive music systems design
• Exceptional Wwise or Fmod implementation skills
• Proficient with Perforce and with modern day audio software tools (Nuendo, Pro-Tools, Reaper, Plugins)
• Strong communication & collaboration skills
• Ability to own the total quality and value of the experiences we deliver to our audience
• Ability to navigate stakeholder, senior leadership, discipline and team feedback effectively
• Ability to lead and own higher-scope discipline, initiative and product team efforts such as driving on creation and adoption of style-guides, and standards along with setting team initiatives and sharing up to date industry learnings

Desired Qualifications:

• Understanding the technical constraints regarding music implementation of PC and Mobile to accurately predict task duration and understand dependencies
• Understanding the nuances between single player experiences and multi player experiences

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 part of the Illustration team, you’ll put stylus to Cintiq and create promotional art that represents the essence of a Champion, thematic, or gameplay to millions of players. You will use your artistic eye and experience with dynamic lighting, form, and color to tell concise and evocative stories. By working with a team of dedicated illustrators, visual designers, writers, animators, and game developers, you will help decide and illustrate each character’s unique place in our universe

As a Senior Splash Illustration Artist for the League of Legends Splash Illustration team your craft expertise and eye for illustration will help deliver deep engagement and rich fantasy worlds to our players. You will be a key member of your discipline community, supporting the craft and execution across the whole splash team by mentoring teammates and cultivating excellence. You will produce illustrations at the highest quality bar, at times raising or redefining what good looks like. You will partner with the Producer, Art Manager and Craft Lead to support team rituals, art direction and product cohesion on a variety of illustrations for Skins and Champions.

Responsibilities:

• Consistently solid craft executor of high-quality 2D Splash Illustrations with minimum oversight.
• Assist in driving the quality of the team’s work and set the bar for excellence.
• Maintaining the illustration quality and mentoring our vendors by participating in review meetings and providing constructive feedback to external art teams.
• Mentoring and coaching artists in creating high end Splash illustrations and developing their art skills.
• Sharing of craft expertise and knowledge through discipline, community, mentorship and art collaboration.
• Support team leadership through style guide creation, participating and assisting in team rituals, identifying areas for improvement and consistent feedback.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of industry experience as a 2D Artist/Illustrator
• Showcase ability to create high quality 2D Splash Illustrations
• Extreme proficiency in art fundamentals, visual storytelling, anatomy, lighting, materials and color theory
• Expertise in Splash Style including stylized anatomy, heroic compositions and cinematic/realistic believability
• Advanced experience creating high end digital art assets in Adobe Photoshop
• Highly experienced with 2D Illustration Asset production pipelines, and showing a strong ability of driving illustrations for the thumbnails to the final state.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in working in a team environment and collaborating with different disciplines.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience owning and effectively communicating about projects and workflow
• AAA Game Development experience
• Familiarity with League of Legends Characters, IP Universes and Lore

As a part of the application process, candidates will be expected to provide a portfolio of their work.

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 Engineers on Anti-Cheat are builders, trailblazers, and stewards of competitive integrity. We protect the legitimacy of Riot’s multiplayer games by designing resilient platforms, developing robust internal tools, and staying ahead of adversarial threats without losing sight of the player experience.

As a Staff Software Engineer on Vanguard’s Platform Services team, you will operate at the intersection of platform services, internal developer tooling, and ecosystem design. You’ll be responsible for supporting a platform that serves millions of players, supporting internal tools that serve hundreds of Player Support agents and developing cutting edge technology to help prevent, detect and deter cheaters from getting into our games. This is a hands-on staff role for an engineer who thrives on rolling up their sleeves and building services in a fast-paced and innovative environment. You will help lead through technical expertise and soft skills, influencing the direction of the team both through code and a deep drive to understand and improve the product. You will partner closely with engineers, stakeholders, and anti-cheat experts across the entire Vanguard stack to build performant and impactful tools and services in support of our Players. You will report to the Engineering Manager of Platform Services within Anti-Cheat

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and evolve shared backend platform services that power Vanguard systems across client, services, and internal tooling
• Own APIs and service contracts used by multiple teams, ensuring reliability, clarity, and long-term maintainability
• Lead the development of internal tools and web applications used for operations, investigations, configuration, and visibility
• Identify and reduce systemic risks across the platform (scalability, operability, security, maintainability)
• Design and operate distributed backend systems with high availability and strong security guarantees
• Partner in incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational workflows for platform services
• Collaborate across Anti-Cheat, Security, and Game teams as a trusted technical partner

Required Qualifications:

• Staff-level experience building and owning backend platforms and internal tools used by multiple teams
• Strong experience with backend service development and distributed systems
  (e.g., AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Significant experience building internal tools or web applications using modern web stacks (e.g.,Golang, React, Node.js, TypeScript)
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs and shared services in a large or growing ecosystem
• Comfort operating and debugging live, production systems
• Strong architectural judgment and experience influencing key technical decisions
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on platform teams or internal developer tooling
• Experience designing systems with security and adversarial thinking in mind
• Background supporting high-availability services or operational tooling
• Experience mentoring engineers at all levels
• Experience building developer platforms or sandbox environments for rapid experimentation
• A strong understanding of LLMs, Agentic AI based development, and their respective strengths and weaknesses

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. 

The UnEco (or Unreal Ecosystem) team has an impact on a wide array of topics, including gameplay features, runtime performance, tooling, CI/CD, just to name a few. As a Software Engineer III on the UnEco team, you’ll gain organizational alignment by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to technical problems. They also serve as mentors for engineers, guiding their performance and finding growth opportunities delivering compelling player experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Be hands-on in development, writing excellent code that sets a high standard for other engineers.
• Drive the ideation and process of setting technical direction within the Unreal Ecosystem, including advising leadership on prioritization of work efforts and buy/build decisions for major system components.
• Lead the technical execution of multi-month to year-plus work efforts across the business unit, holding teams to established standards.
• Help teams navigate ambiguity and complexity by breaking down problems, identifying risks, and clearly communicating trade-offs.
• Work on a range of tech stacks including underlying infrastructure, build and test automation, release pipelines, and developer tooling for internal teams leveraging the Riot Unreal Ecosystem.
• Work with stakeholders across the organization to address their pain points and exceed their expectations for what continuous delivery game development can be.
• Be a standard-bearer and role model of Riot values for your team and others.
• Be a force multiplier for your team. Mentor senior engineers on your team and enable them to deliver complex projects.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Expertise with C++
• Experience with mobile development
• Experience working with modern video game engines
• Experience working with large game teams
• Experience working with large code bases
• Experience debugging, profiling and optimizing complex projects
• Strong knowledge of common game and software design patterns
• Experience collaborating with teammates across multiple disciplines

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Experience building online games
• Experience with console development

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. 

The UnEco (or Unreal Ecosystem) team has an impact on a wide array of topics, including gameplay features, runtime performance, tooling, CI/CD, just to name a few. As a Principal Software Engineer on the UnEco team, you’ll gain organizational alignment by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to technical problems. They also serve as mentors for engineers, guiding their performance and finding growth opportunities delivering compelling player experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Be hands-on in development, writing excellent code that sets a high standard for other engineers.
• Drive the ideation and process of setting technical direction within the Unreal Ecosystem, including advising leadership on prioritization of work efforts and buy/build decisions for major system components.
• Lead the technical execution of multi-month to year-plus work efforts across the business unit, holding teams to established standards.
• Help teams navigate ambiguity and complexity by breaking down problems, identifying risks, and clearly communicating trade-offs.
• Work on a range of tech stacks including underlying infrastructure, build and test automation, release pipelines, and developer tooling for internal teams leveraging the Riot Unreal Ecosystem.
• Work with stakeholders across the organization to address their pain points and exceed their expectations for what continuous delivery game development can be.
• Be a standard-bearer and role model of Riot values for your team and others.
• Be a force multiplier for your team. Mentor senior engineers on your team and enable them to deliver complex projects.
• Lead efforts to build and evangelize shared technology and best practices to realize rendering techniques for custom needs (e.g. stylization approaches), GPU optimization, asset budgeting and other graphics-oriented area as a key vision holder in a complex multi-game shared engine environment.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Expertise with C++
• Expertise in game rendering and engine performance profiling
• Experience working with modern video game engines
• Experience working with large game teams
• Experience working with large code bases
• Experience debugging, profiling and optimizing complex projects
• Strong knowledge of common game and software design patterns
• Experience collaborating with teammates across multiple disciplines

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with mobile development
• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Experience building online games
• Experience with console development
• Experience partnering closely with artists

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. 

Engineering managers at Riot are technical leaders first—they stay close to the craft, make grounded architectural decisions, and earn credibility through the quality of their technical judgment and its impact on Riot’s ability to deliver for players. They are deeply invested in people: building diverse teams, growing individual careers, and creating environments where engineers can do the best work of their lives. The best Riot engineering managers hold both of these responsibilities without trading one for the other.

Anti-Cheat is Riot’s first defense against cheaters that don’t want to play fair. As a cross-discipline team of former cheaters, kernel developers, machine learning engineers, data analysts, and software engineers, they make products like Vanguard to detect and ban the bad guys across all of Riot’s competitive titles and platforms, staying vigilant to whatever shape they’ll take in response.  From beaming bots to scorching scripters, anti-cheat enables Riot’s game teams to take on competitive genres and design rewarding systems that would otherwise be too vulnerable to fraudsters and cheaters. As a Sr. Manager of Machine Learning Engineering on Anti-Cheat, you will lead a group of teams, including Data Analytics, Data Engineering, and ML Engineering, unified in a quest to both operationally support day-to-day anti-cheat operations and cook the ML-powered weaponry that will ultimately upgrade them. You will own the entire group’s roadmap, ensuring a coherent technical approach to modelling, warehousing, and engineering across all of anti-cheat, while also fostering strong alignment with partnering games and organizations.  Your responsibilities will include converting product priorities into tangible technical strategies, optimizing data team compositions to achieve these goals, and deeply contributing to all projects involved on a profoundly technical level.  Your success will be measured through both the statistical and the perceived fairness of Riot’s competitive ladders. You will report to the Director of Anti-Cheat.

Responsibilities

• Use all of anti-cheat’s resources to help design, build, and maintain AI/ML pipelines from end-to-end, creating an iterative, ever-evolving series of classifiers, capable of adapting in perpetuity as attackers learn from its actions.
• Leverage Riot’s centralized ML infrastructure where possible, upgrade it where necessary, and ensure that any realized technical capabilities can be capitalized on by other teams and products.
• Innovate in the anomaly detection space by creating proven, trusted player outcomes from novel and even theoretical modelling approaches.
• Drive AI/ML pipeline development and deployment standards across teams, coordinating with data engineering on shared MLOps capabilities.
• Manage individual contributors and team-level managers of a variety of shapes: Data Engineers, Data Analysts, ML Engineers while also helping shepherd the unique “Anti-Cheat Analyst” craft that amalgamates detections, reconnaissance, and player support.
• Evaluate overall team composition, identifying gaps in skills, seniority, and capacity that could impact roadmap delivery; take a proactive role in resource allocation and strategic development of team capabilities.
• Clearly articulate and demonstrate good ML engineering practices; recognize when to lean in and help directly when necessary.
• Ensure the group stays current with AI/ML developments and has high contextual awareness of company and industry direction; separate signal from noise in service of product and technical strategy.

Required Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of industry experience, including experience as a Senior ML Engineer or higher.
• 4+ years of management experience, including experience managing managers or team leads.
• Evidence that teams you’ve led have shipped ML systems that other teams or products depend on.  Not just prototypes, but production systems with real operational weight.
• Experience translating a long-term technical vision into a roadmap that your teams successfully executed against, with evidence of course-correcting when priorities shifted.
• Working knowledge of production ML systems.  You can engage credibly on model serving, CI/CD for ML, observability, and cost tradeoffs, even if you’re not writing the code daily (but you can also write the code daily).
• Comfort representing ML capabilities in cross-disciplinary forums and translating technical tradeoffs for product, design, and leadership audiences.
• History of working at the boundary between research and production, where interesting problems require both scientific rigor and engineering pragmatism.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience building iterative machine classifiers for behavioral anomalies in competitive video games.
• Hands-on experience in threat detection for risk, fraud, insurance, security, sports, or gaming spaces.
• Passion for player experience, games, or creative technology.

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 Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team goals. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering. In this role, you will be enabling productionized machine learning across all of Riot, at a global scale. You’ll be applying modern MLOps practices: streamlining deployment, simplifying operations, and creating reliable infrastructure that empowers data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deliver value quickly and confidently.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll design and implement methods for model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management. You’ll work on enabling all kinds of AI/ML by creating critical infrastructure; think model orchestration, feature stores, vector DBs, and everything in between. Your contributions will make ML & AI easier to adopt and operate across Riot, helping game and platform teams deliver high-impact machine learning solutions more efficiently. You will report to the Engineering Manager with Riot's Game Technology Group.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and support ML inference infrastructure for real-time and batch serving, including deployment pipelines and CPU/GPU-aware orchestration
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows for ML artifacts, helping enable rapid iteration and safe promotion from development to production
• Implement platform observability features such as monitoring, drift detection, resource utilization, and latency tracking
• Support ML deployment best practices, including multi-version models, blue/green rollouts, shadow deployments, and safe rollback strategies
• Be thoughtful on developer UX and incorporate an iterative approach to improving
• Help lead long-term platform architecture, providing input into design decisions and contributing to team discussions
• Contribute upstream to shared infra initiatives and build feedback loops and collaboration models with other Riot platform teams
• Collaborate with researchers and game teams to understand product needs and build generalizable, reusable solutions

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with time spent on ML/AI, platform or infrastructure teams
• Experience maintaining cloud-agnostic inference platforms (e.g. KServe) or running open source frameworks (Feast, Milvus, etc.) in a production environment
• Experience with one or more inference serving frameworks (e.g., NVIDIA Triton, TorchServe, BentoML, Seldon Core etc)
• Familiarity with GPU orchestration, performance tuning, and cost-aware scheduling
• Exposure to CI/CD workflows, infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), and artifact management
• Maintained or led development of services within a service-oriented architecture

Desired Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Python and experience with package management tools (e.g., Conda, Poetry)
• Exposure to AB testing and experimentation frameworks, especially in online model evaluation
• Familiarity with machine learning workflows (e.g., training, validation, deployment, monitoring) and experience working with data scientists
• Passion for player experience, game systems, or creative technology development

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’s People team exists to help Rioters make better decisions around its talent. We bring our expertise to all areas of HR such as hiring, onboarding, learning and development, diversity and inclusion, performance management, benefits, perks, compensation, employee relations and off-boarding so that all Rioters can flourish.

As HR Business Partners, we are not a compliance function and we don’t make decisions from an ivory tower. Instead, we carefully listen to the problem spaces and work with Rioters to get to an optimal outcome. We view ourselves as trusted consultants and advisers with a specific expertise in all things HR. Working in People at Riot enables you to redefine what effective human resource practices look like. 

As an HR Business Partner reporting to the Director, HRBP you will bring broad skills to the teams and programs you’re embedded in within our Esports and Production Services Business. You will partner with leaders across a wide variety of product-lines and central functions as a strategic partner helping shape their People strategy. You will also support deploying People tools and programs ensuring global consistency and careful creation to ensure central programs will support the needs of your assigned clients. You will be a go-to resource for all things related to talent, ranging from performance management to total rewards. You will be a culture promoter and a deployer of tools and programs that turn Rioter potential into performance and results.

Responsibilities:

• Build strong relationships and business acumen with assigned client groups; to act as a strategic advisor in influencing talent decisions that will enable the business objectives while balancing local compliance considerations and complying with Riot best practices. 
• Partner with the COE’s in support of succession/ talent planning, employee engagement, and workforce planning efforts ; utilize developed frameworks while adapting implementation to meet unique client needs, that can scale and drive evolving business objectives. 
• Help inform organization design with an eye towards effectiveness and future scale and develop change management plans for important organization changes.
• Support performance management, leading calibration sessions, group specific training and messaging, and coaching leaders and managers. 
• Partner with leadership and Compensation team to maintain fair compensation and evolve job leveling within the changing needs of the business.
• Manage employee relations situations, acting as a first point of contact for talent concerns, performance management and policy violations; apply judgement in identifying concerns, determining the appropriate initial steps and partnering with Rioter Relations and Legal team on resolution when appropriate. 
• Oversee the roll out of cyclical People processes across the worldwide Publishing and Esports HRBP and project manage special projects as needed.
• Demonstrate active listening, curiosity and partnership in all responsibilities to enable creative solutions in an environment that often poses unique challenges. 

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in an HR generalist/business partner or specialist role with progression
• Experience in program/project management, ideally in the support of HR processes. 
• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources Management, Business, Organizational Design, or relevant field; or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, consulting, collaboration, and coaching experience.
• Experience working with or supporting diverse and global communities.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting teams in entertainment, sports, gaming, or tech companies.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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. 

As a Principal Lighting Artist on League of Legends, you will play a pivotal role in creating and guiding the visual and emotional tone of one the best known PC games ever made. You will be responsible for making and maintaining real time lighting setups that help create a stunning visual tone that delights players from all over the world. You will work with art directors, artists, engineers and technical artists to make and implement new modern lighting solutions that are stunning to look at and are optimized for performance.  

The Principal Lighting Artist on League of Legends is a subject matter expert that is accountable for the final look and performance of the lighting solutions being used within the around game and in-game experience. You will be authoring and implementing new lighting solutions, advocate for best, practical practices and push the boundaries of what lighting can be within League of Legends. You will be hands on and directly support the lighting solutions in game as the primary lighting expert. 

Responsibilities:

• Author solutions to drive the visual output of the lighting solutions used in the around game and in-game environments
• Help develop lighting workflows, tools, and engine improvements to support creative goals from the Art and Product teams.
• Work with art leadership to evaluate current lighting technology and iterate on existing systems to meet look-dev goals.
• Collaborate with tools and rendering teams on enhancements to our lighting workflows
• Be a bridge between Art and Engineering in the realm of lighting
• Create and consolidate documentation for using our lighting systems, and build discipline-wide habits to keep them up to date.
• Own the performance and optimization efforts around lighting sets by implementing against standards practices informed by tech optimization teams.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional experience as a Lighting Artist in video games
• Has pre production and production experience on at least 2 AAA titles as a Senior Lighting Artist 
• Demonstrated experience creating lighting solutions in a real time game environment
• A collaborative attitude towards bridging the gap between artistic goals and technical considerations with Art and Engineering
• An understanding of modern lighting theory, including physically based rendering (PBR) and other associated technologies and techniques used in modern consumer-grade game engines such as Unreal or Unity
• An ability to translate artistic requirements into functional and performant lighting solutions used in a real-time rendering environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience using proprietary game engines
• Understanding of the math and components of a BRDF
• Experience with color theory and composition
• Experience with surfacing and texturing
• Expertise in content creation and tool development in DCC tools, especially Maya, Photoshop, and Substance
• Knowledge of Python for scripting
• Experience profiling and optimizing performance of Shaders with tools such as RenderDoc or other industry standard systems

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. 

The Insights discipline helps empower Rioters' decision-making to be more data-informed. We're an interdisciplinary group of scientists, consultants, and strategists from all sorts of backgrounds who join together to represent and advocate for gamers around the world. We believe that illuminating the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of gamers is critical to Riot living up to our player-focused mission. We're a group united by our love of games, science, and helping others succeed.

As a Principal Researcher on the League of Legends development team, you’ll be responsible for helping Riot conduct high complexity research that helps us understand League’s current and emerging audiences and inform/assess what we build for those audiences. You'll conduct a wide range of studies and analyses including (but not limited to) qualitative interviews, global market surveys, segmentation, playtests, usability, and focus groups. You’ll be part of an interdisciplinary Insights team working closely with a diverse group of devs to turn the findings of your research into recommendations and action. Your research background coupled with your deep understanding of data will ensure that you’re an effective advocate for players and can provide strategic guidance about their wants, needs, and behaviors. This role will report to the Senior Manager of Insights (Research) for League of Legends. This hybrid position blends onsite work in Santa Monica, CA with remote flexibility.

Responsibilities:

• Design and execute end-to-end studies using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to uncover player motivations, pain points, and emerging opportunity areas.
• Effectively lead vendor engagements supporting global playtesting, focus groups, and survey work. This included negotiating project requirements with stakeholders, submitting RFPs, reviewing proposals, negotiating pricing, and holding vendors accountable to their commitments.
• Conduct playtests and usability testing to help dev teams quickly iterate on product designs.
• Partner with analysts, researchers, and designers to generate insights and frameworks that will inform the strategic direction of League of Legends.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional development team to define and optimize the League of Legends Player Lifecycle, including new player experience, progression, and matchmaking.
• Communicate research findings through compelling narratives that align stakeholders and drive executive decision-making.
• Champion the player perspective by delivering evidence-based guidance on player needs, motivations, and behaviors, both current players and prospective League players.
• Collaborate closely with game teams, additional researchers, and Insights partners to develop and socialize research-driven frameworks that shape League’s product strategy and help to level up research capabilities at Riot.
• Be an effective advocate for players and provide strategic guidance about their wants, needs, and behaviors.
• Continuously exploring new approaches to research methods and technological advancements like AI to improve the quality and speed of Riot's research.
• Mentor other researchers, helping them learn from your own experiences, and contribute to Riot’s research craft standard

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline plus at least 9 years of relevant experience (an advanced degree can account for 1 to 2 years of experience depending on Master’s or PhD)
• Broad experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods including conducting interviews, focus groups, online community studies, playtests, usability, and survey research with deep expertise in at least one of these areas
• 3+ years research in the games industry 
• Experience conducting research to answer product or portfolio strategy questions
• Experience synthesizing & socializing research results and distilling results into impactful recommendations for product leadership
• Trusted to operate independently regardless of structure and to have owned larger problems/projects/workstreams
• Adept at communicating effectively at all levels: from devs implementing your work to executives defining strategy

Desired Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience working directly with senior executives (includes clients)
• Familiarity with basic statistical methods for data analysis (regressions, correlations, factor analyses)
• Experience working with game teams through the entire lifecycle of the product (development, launch, and live operations) 
• Vendor management experience
• Experience leading complex efforts with multiple collaborators

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As Engineering Managers, we gain organizational alignment by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to organizational design. We also serve as mentors for a team of engineers, overseeing their performance and trying to find stretch opportunities for their growth while maintaining a focus on results.

As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering within Riot Discovery Studio, you will report to the Tech Director on an unpublished R&D product, directing internal and external teams of engineers to support product exploration, integrate, and extend critical backend technologies, and scale our technology to meet the needs of a live Riot title. You will be accountable for all technical decisions of your teams’ focus areas and help shape the product. In addition to leading the team, you will be hands-on in implementation, at least initially.

Responsibilities:

• Define the engineering strategy and technical roadmap to develop our global backend infrastructure with an understanding of our audience and product goals
• Manage and scale multiple engineering teams to support product needs through pre-production, production and post-launch
• Partner with product and delivery as they define product features and product roadmap
• Collaborate and coordinate with Riot Central technology teams to efficiently deliver world-class solutions
• Direct development and manage performance of external engineering teams in other geographies
• Collaborate in technical/architectural discussions, provide direction and drive decision-making
• Drive the planning and execution of engineering work including requirements gathering, technical discovery, technical design, and work breakdown and estimation.
• Directly accountable for the technical success of the team including ownership of our systems and services operating well and in a cost-effective manner in live environments
• Identify, interview, and hire software engineers to support team and Riot hiring goals
• Support engineers with performance management, and career management and development including stretch opportunities for them to grow
• Create a culture of leadership across engineering by seeking different perspectives at all levels to solve problems and contribute ideas

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer 
• 2+ years of game development experience working in various platforms (i.e. mobile, console, PC, etc.)
• 3+ years in a leadership position, working directly on the production of a game as an Engineering Manager
• Experience leading teams through feature development (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)
• Experience building reliable, scalable, and maintainable backend distributed systems
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including shipping one or more products on large code bases that span a range of platforms and tools
• Experience collaborating across non-engineering departments to create solutions
• Experience with Golang or Java

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience developing or managing development of full-stack solutions
• Experience managing co-development or outsourcing relationships
• Experience shipping a game on Unreal Engine
• Experience with build and release pipeline management
• Experience with the pre-production, production, and post-production phases of game development
• Familiarity with modern game platforms and practices

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:

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 User Experience Designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity aid in crafting in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to innovate and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world.

As a Senior User Experience Designer on an unpublished R&D product, you will be responsible for delivering design work in a high-scope, complex, and often ambiguous product area. Your work will generally encompass multiple features and sometimes span across teams. You will apply design thinking and take a broad approach to ensure experiential continuity across platforms and touch points. You’ll work from concept through development and collaborate with other designers to continue to improve the player experience.

Responsibilities:

• Support high-level design goals by developing intuitive and clear UX flows, primarily for our mechanics and around the game features
• Build wireframes, interactive prototypes, and presentations as needed for proof of concept and implementation.
• Communicate ideas to design, engineering, and art and collaborate across teams to help drive player-experience-first design.
• Be prepared to help implement prototypes (with engineering and UI support) to show proof of concept.
• Articulate design decisions and communicate your data-informed vision,  design rationale and solutions to team members. 
• Deliver appropriate level of design artifacts for the team (e.g., strategy articulation and alignment frameworks, discovery/research results, journey maps, flows, wireframes, mockups and/or prototypes) 
• Work with project leadership to establish best-practices and quality standards, and champion user-centered design methodologies

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience designing for games, digital experiences, products, or platforms as a User Experience Designer, Information Architect, Interaction Designer, or similar.
• An inspiring professional portfolio with examples of your past work.
• Professional experience with Figma (preferred), Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch and other industry design and prototyping tools 

Desired Qualifications:

• A minimum of a BA/BS degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction/ Interface Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent experience.
• Broad or secondary UX skills outside your core specialty: interaction design, content strategy, user research, information architecture, prototyping, visual design, UI animation etc.
• Expertise designing UI to work across multiple devices and form factors.
• Deep experience designing for mobile games.
• A passion for (or an interest in) strategy games.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You’ll drive important features and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Senior Software Engineer (Gameplay Systems & Animation ) on an unpublished R&D product, you will report to the Gameplay Engineering Lead, you’ll help bring our characters to life through responsive, expressive, and high-quality animation systems. You’ll work at the intersection of gameplay engineering and content creation — partnering closely with animators, designers, and technical artists to build scalable systems that power movement, locomotion, and moment-to-moment feel. This role collaborates with multiple groups within the gameplay team, contributing directly to the quality, polish, and performance of our core combat experience. The ideal candidate is passionate about player feel, thrives in cross-disciplinary collaboration, and takes pride in building robust systems that unlock content at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design, prototype, and implement robust, scalable gameplay and animation systems, evolving underlying systems to improve reuse, polish, maintainability, and performance.
• Contribute to locomotion, movement feel, and animation-driven gameplay systems across multiple gameplay domains.
• Partner closely with animators and technical artists to improve workflows, clarify handoff points, and enable efficient content production.
• Identify technical risks in animation and gameplay systems and collaborate with technical leaders to implement sustainable architectural solutions.
• Contribute to adjacent gameplay domains such as combat systems, camera, VFX integration, or other core gameplay systems as needed.
• Mentor peers across disciplines by sharing insights on animation systems, gameplay feel, and technical problem-solving.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in game development.
• 3+ years of experience developing or supporting animation systems.
• Strong C++ programming skills and solid computer science fundamentals.
• Experience working with Unreal Engine, including its animation systems.
• Experience implementing gameplay systems closely tied to animation
• Strong debugging, optimization, and performance-tuning skills.
• Experience collaborating effectively in cross-disciplinary teams, with strong product sense and player empathy.

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine internals and extending or modifying engine animation systems.
• Experience improving content pipelines and animation workflows.
• Exposure to related domains such as gameplay VFX, camera systems, etc.
• Experience working on mid-sized engineering teams in a live or in-development game environment.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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 Game Designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity help craft in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to create and iterate player-focused designs that will delight millions around the world.

As a Senior Game Designer on Riftbound, you'll report to a Game Design Manager and work directly with other designers. You will design and improve the gameplay experience through the lens of game rules and their interactions with content: cards. Primary among your responsibilities will be working with set designers to build, improve, and execute on new mechanics, templates, and rules, and you will also be expected to contribute to card design across many products, and support other efforts related to the Riftbound game experience.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the relevant audiences for the game, and from this, calibrate your design expertise to reflect appropriate taste for these audiences
• Use data and sense-making to identify opportunities to improve the health of the game through cards
• Articulate and consider a scope and depth of possible solutions, including possible effects, and collaboratively reach the best solution
• Evaluate and improve rules across the game’s design and execution, especially understanding the multiple ways the game will be played by players
• Improve existing design frameworks, our approaches to design, and create new ones
• Openly share work and seek feedback from other developers, while combine co-worker and player feedback to calibrate design direction
• Provide mentorship to more junior members of the design team

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience as a game designer and/or tabletop game rules manager
• Demonstrated experience working on rules for tabletop games
• Broad mechanics and content design ability

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of CCGs and their features
• Experience playing or judging in CCGs
• Experience working with or playing PvP strategy games
• Experience developing a competitive or multiplayer game

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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. 

The Insights discipline helps empower Rioters' decision-making to be more data-informed. We're an interdisciplinary group of scientists, consultants, and strategists from all sorts of backgrounds who join together to represent and advocate for gamers around the world. We believe that illuminating the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of gamers is critical to Riot living up to our player-focused mission. We're a group united by our love of games, science, and helping others succeed.

You will be joining as a Senior Manager for the Competitive Insights team, which supports the broader Competitive Area that includes teams like Match Services, Player Dynamics, Esports Features, and Premier. You’ll lead and support our Insighters in the Area to inform strategic decision-making, uncover opportunities, and represent needs and pain points for our players. Your team will conduct playtests, experiments, studies, and holistic analyses that guide the Competitive roadmap with clarity and rigor. You will be accountable for delivering high-quality insights and ensuring the team operates effectively by ensuring their work plays a pivotal role in guiding development of our features and/or strategy. Your scientific skill set, background in gameplay systems, strong communication skills, organizational rigor, and leadership capabilities will ensure that we have a high-functioning Insights team that can help ensure our product managers, designers, and Area leadership team have the information they need about our players to make VALORANT the best it has ever been. You will own our product and business validation strategies, help define key product performance targets, and monitor performance against those targets for the Area. You will report to the Insights Lead for VALORANT.

Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a high-performing team of Insighters—setting priorities, ensuring craft excellence, and promoting continuous improvement in insights delivery.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and VAL Tac leadership to shape strategy, monitor performance in areas like engagement, matchmaking, and player sentiment, and drive decisions grounded in player-centered insights
• Oversee prioritization of Insights efforts, balancing the needs of several stakeholder groups across the Competitive Area
• Frame and execute validation strategies, define key KPIs, and monitor outcomes. Ensure insights are framed into compelling, actionable narratives to inform product direction 
• Mentor and grow Insighters, championing craft standards, collaboration, and strategic problem-solving across Riot’s Insights organization

Required Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of professional experience in research, analytics, data-driven strategy, or related fields, with at least 2+ years of managing teams.
• Working knowledge of both analytics and research, with 5+ years specializing in at least one
• A keen ability to translate complex insights into strategic recommendations, influence senior stakeholders, and tell clear data-driven stories.
• Trusted to operate independently regardless of structure, owns larger problems/projects/workstreams
• Excellent teamwork, team leadership, communication, and stakeholder management
• Experience synthesizing & socializing results and distilling them into impactful recommendations for product leadership
• Experience leading complex efforts with multiple collaborators
• Understanding of matchmaking and competitive systems used in multiplayer games used to drive engagement or player sentiment, either through design or personal experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with game teams through the entire lifecycle of the product (development, launch, and live operations) 
• Vendor management experience

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 engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll predominantly offer creative solutions to organizational design. You’ll also serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability.

The Infrastructure group at Riot builds the foundation that enables our games to operate globally and securely at scale, ensuring the highest levels of infrastructure performance, availability, and quality for our players. As an Engineering Manager within the Optimize team, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager for the group and lead a team responsible for making sure we are using the cloud well. You'll champion automation, incident response, and continuous improvement, ensuring our systems are not only robust but also evolve efficiently to meet player demands.You will support the team in their collaboration with other infrastructure and game teams, focusing on critical challenges within the domains of cloud optimization and performance tuning. If you are looking to have a direct, positive impact on the people who play and love our games, please join us to help make Riot the most player-focused game company in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 4-10 cloud and software engineers; coaching them, overseeing performance management, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring high quality delivery and best in class operational results.
• Manage the health and performance of the engineering team with empathy and authenticity, building trust and inspiring them to overcome challenges.
• Contribute to all parts of the employee life-cycle, including recruiting, hiring, managing, and mentoring engineers.
• Stay hands-on with your team's tech, overseeing the technical design and deliverables of the team and working with your team's most senior engineers.
• Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams at Riot to foster cross-team collaboration.
• Be accountable for your team's deliverables.

Required Qualifications: 

• 5+ years experience as a software/systems/performance engineer or in a role directly supporting engineering teams
• 3+ years experience managing an engineering team
• Expertise cloud computing with a particular focus on AWS technologies
• Experience working with Python or Golang
• Good understanding of DevOps practices and automation
• Expertise in project management, prioritization frameworks, and guiding investment strategies in people and systems.
• Experience delivering both multi-month projects and short, targeted engagements,  establishing clear deliverables and reporting on progress
• Experience collaborating across multiple teams and prioritizing work efforts.
• Familiarity with infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software design at high scale.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in performance engineering 
• Good understanding of low level systems and Linux internals
• Expertise in supporting agile development 
• Experience in product development and management
• Familiarity with networking
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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. 

Research Scientists at Riot combine deep technical expertise across machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), experimental design, and systems engineering to invent new ways players experience games. As a Principal Research Scientist, you operate at the frontier of what’s possible and set the standard for how research is conducted and how it translates into extraordinary gameplay.

As a Principal Research Scientist in Tech Research, you will lead a small, cross-functional team focused on building AI-powered gameplay prototypes. These prototypes are not paper exercises, instead they are playable, opinionated explorations of new game mechanics, agent behaviors, and player experiences enabled by modern AI. You will be responsible for identifying promising research directions, translating them into concrete gameplay experiments, and driving them from early concept through working prototypes that influence game teams. You will be the technical and creative lead on complex, ambiguous problems where success requires strong judgment, rapid iteration, and an ability to balance research rigor with hands-on building. You will set the vision and quality bar, leading by example in various capacities, including writing code, shaping robust systems, and mentoring team members. You will lead AI-driven gameplay exploration who is tasked with rapidly testing new ideas through playable prototypes, rigorous evaluation, and real player insight. Your team will identify emerging research with the potential to meaningfully change gameplay, turn it into concrete gameplay experiments, and work with game teams to transform validated breakthroughs into options Riot can confidently commit to.

Responsibilities:

• Define and lead AI-powered gameplay research directions, translating emerging ML/AI capabilities into concrete, playable game prototypes
• Build, lead, and mentor a small cross-functional team, setting technical direction while remaining deeply hands-on
• Own research and prototyping roadmaps, milestones, and risk management for multi-quarter initiatives
• Work closely with game teams to understand player goals and design constraints, ensuring prototypes are grounded in real gameplay needs
• Rapidly iterate on prototypes, balancing research rigor with playability, performance, and developer usability
• Stay current with academic and industry advances in AI for games, reinforcement learning, generative models, and agent systems
• Communicate vision, progress, and learnings clearly to stakeholders, helping teams understand both what works and what doesn’t

Required Qualifications:

• MS in Computer Science or equivalent with 6+ years research experience or BS in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years research experience
• Strong background in applied or foundational research, with experience leading projects through hypothesis-driven experimentation
• 2+ years of experience in machine learning for sequential decision-making, agents, or complex systems (e.g., RL, imitation learning, planning, or hybrid approaches)
• Proficiency in C, C++, or Python
• Demonstrated contributions to public research (e.g., publications, talks, open-source projects)
• Experience designing and implementing complex systems that integrate ML with real-time or interactive environments
• Expertise with PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Experience working in commercial game engines for prototyping or production
• Strong understanding of gameplay systems, game loops, and real-time constraints
• Experience collaborating closely with designers and engineers in a game development context

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.