What You'll Do

Authentic Brands Group is seeking an experienced Sr Manager, Store Design to join our dynamic team at our Shanghai office. As a Sr Manager, Store Design, you will play a vital role in designing and executing exceptional retail spaces that align with the unique brand experiences of our various properties, including Ted Baker stores and other brands within the Authentic portfolio. We are looking for a talented and innovative individual with a passion for creating immersive retail environments that captivate and engage customers. This position requires a seasoned professional with demonstrated expertise in store design and brand experience.

What You'll Be Working On

• Store Design Conceptualization: Partner with the Sr. Director of Store Design and Creative Services to develop innovative and on-brand retail store concepts and standards that align with each brand's identity and values.
• Retail Space Planning: Design, produce, and review comprehensive store layouts for our extensive brand portfolio and global partners. Design, evolve, and maintain global design guidelines for varied channels and market distribution.
• Interior Design: Select and source appropriate materials, fixtures, furnishings, and decor elements that enhance the overall aesthetics and ambiance of each retail location and office.
• 3D Visualizations: Develop detailed 3D renderings and visualizations to effectively communicate design concepts to stakeholders, ensuring a unified vision for each project.
• Project Management: Oversee the end-to-end store design process, from concept to completion, while adhering to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams, including visual merchandising, brand management, marketing, and operations, to ensure that the store design aligns with broader business objectives and enhances the overall customer experience.
• Market Research: Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in store design and customer experience to continually innovate and elevate our retail spaces.
• Vendor Management: Establish and maintain strong relationships with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers to ensure smooth execution of store projects.
• Compliance and Regulations: Ensure all store designs comply with local building codes, accessibility requirements, and safety standards.

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Interior Design, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in store design, retail space planning, and brand experience.
• Strong proficiency in 2D and 3D design software, such as AutoCAD, SketchUp, V-Ray, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Demonstrated portfolio of successful retail store design projects with an emphasis on creating immersive and compelling customer experiences.
• Ability to think creatively and strategically while maintaining a keen eye for detail.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate design concepts effectively to stakeholders and team members.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of construction processes and industry standards for retail store builds.
• Familiarity with sustainable design practices and materials is a plus.
• A passion for consumer brands, fashion, lifestyle, and entertainment is highly desirable.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Core Technical
• Strong Python proficiency — you'll use it daily for signal research, backtesting, data processing, and prototyping
• Solid foundation in quantitative methods: statistics, probability, optimization, and factor modeling
• Hands-on experience with ML/DL (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar) — not just coursework, but building and validating models end-to-end
• Practical exposure to LLMs and AI agents — whether prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or building LLM-powered research workflows
• Research & Domain
• Exposure to factor-based strategies, portfolio construction, or systematic alpha research — able to independently design, test, and critically evaluate signals with rigour
• Comfortable working with new or unstructured datasets — cleaning, exploring, and extracting value from imperfect data
• Ability to assist PMs with portfolio analytics — analysing return attribution, risk decomposition, and testing portfolio construction parameters
• Nice-to-Haves
• Prior internship in quantitative research or systematic investing
• Familiarity with China equity markets (A-shares, market structure)
• Versatility to move between research and engineering — equally comfortable exploring a novel idea and shipping high-quality code
• Education
• Currently enrolled at a top-tier university in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related quantitative field

Position Overview: 

This role is a senior-level cost management professional responsible for overseeing all aspects of cost accounting, cost analysis, and cost management within APAC region. This role serves as a strategic partner to operations, supply chain, and leadership to drive cost efficiency, accurate product costing, and profitability optimization.

What You Will Do

Costing:

• Manage all cost negotiations with the source factories and be responsible for updating internal system with most updated and accurate cost timely.
• Ensure CBD’s are available timely for all styles in production.
• Collaborate with Sourcing, and the Source Factories to promote the transparency of costing.  This would include further defining costs for overheads and procedures.
• Collaborate with Sourcing and the Source Factories to help develop a tiered cost system reflective of production complexity and actual incurred costs.
• Develop and report on costing metrics to include (but not limited to) standard labor rates, average unit costs, standard yields etc.
• Standardize Labor, overhead, yield etc. targets across factories and regions.
• Responsible for hiring, training and supervising the Costing team.

Factory Operations

• Collaborate with the Source Factories, Sourcing and US stakeholder teams to work towards long-term sustainable improvements within the manufacturing process as well as the costing process.  This should include utilizing lean techniques whenever possible to drive these changes.  These actual process changes will be linked with estimated actual costs used for the price paid for finished product.  This may include preparing conceptual cost analysis around new strategic initiatives or ventures.
• Skilled in all aspects of costing construction, product knowledge, business experience, and negotiation skills, resulting in the enhancement and expedition of product costs through the development life cycle from prototypes through commercialization and strategic planning.  This will require being able to work as part of a cross-functional team.
• Work with appropriate parties on negotiating and understanding costs of production processes (example – manufacture of complex CMF process etc.).
• Maintain independence from factories and provide an appropriate level of professional skepticism when dealing with factories.  This role must set the standard in this area.

Materials

• Collaborate with Sourcing (materials) to establish metrics around materials testing, qualification, usage and purchasing.  Additionally, work with these groups as part of the negotiation team for material costs and process improvements.
• Collaborate with Sourcing and Suppliers to extend lean thinking back to the key supplier level.

Policies

• Responsible for making sure there is appropriate documentation for all procedures and processes to ensure long-term sustainable benefits.
• Management of Costing standard, policy and procedures. This provides a consistent basis for negotiation of the cost of the finished product.  Expertise in systems implementations, cost analysis and process improvements.

Systems

• Ensure identification and full support for costing system implementations and usage, Supply Chain Management or other defined systems including costing packages. 

Management

• Recruit, train, and develop a professional, independent costing organization responsive and supportive to local and corporate requirements.
• Drive system implementation, standardized practices, and employee rotation are geared towards clear independence and professional development.

Who you are

• Expertise with a Product Development PLM management system.
• Proven talent in hands-on training. Strong research and analytical abilities. Excellent team building and interpersonal skills; work effectively with individuals at all levels.
• Extremely successful in facilitating cooperative relationships among employees and management.
• Well-developed communication skills demonstrated through professional verbal and writing abilities, client relations, marketing expertise, customer service skills, training new employees, and the ability to produce in-depth reports and correspondence.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, quickly assessing situations and providing solutions.
• PC skills should include Microsoft office, costing software, Centrics or other PLM system, must have the ability to learn and master new software.
• Must be multi-lingual (Mandarin/English required).
• Travel required Domestic and International
• Bachelor’s Degree required in Engineering, supply chain, finance
• Requires 7 to 10 years of related experience in athletic sports, CPG, or FMCG type supply chain with either OEM and/or owned factories.

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

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

That's where you come in.

As the Workplace Experience Manager China, APAC CRE, you play an essential role in driving  a successful real estate and construction strategy for the APAC region while overseeing a WE partner. You will report directly to the Senior Manager, Workplace Experience, APAC. 

Responsibilities:

China Workplace Experience Manager:

• Manage direct report performance and foster growth. Serve as an escalation point, when required, for any challenges. Utilize success metrics to measure performance in relationship to Riot’s goals and objectives.
• Support direct reports to drive strategy for and maintain standards of on-campus programs. 
• Provide guidance and escalation support for direct reports overseeing their own office environments. 
• Serve as the primary point of contact for local Rioters on workplace conditions and experience, making small shifts where possible and raising larger opportunities to regional leadership. Support Rioter onboarding from a Workplace Experience perspective. 
• Maintain office efficiency by planning and building office systems and layouts as well as procuring equipment. Work with building management to ensure maintenance, parking, and staff information all meet Riot standards. 
• Accountable for the overall inner-workings of the office and manage the day-to-day work of the local in-house contracted team. Liaise with office leadership, building management, suppliers, clients, etc. to provide a positive working environment.
• Maintain external vendor and/or supplier relationships, holding vendor(s) responsible for established key performance indicators (KPIs), service-level agreements (SLAs), and overseeing site vendor contracts. Report any performance opportunities to WE leadership.
• Establish and implement office policies, procedures, and processes that improve overall operations while aligning with regional and global standards. Support creation of any workplace experience-related processes for the eSports arena. Maintain local best practices and assist with any escalation efforts. Provide feedback to regional leadership to continuously improve the Rioter experience. 
• Liaise with Rioters and eSports production leadership on their space needs and make changes to accommodate team requirements. Serve as a point of contract for any official move, add, change (MAC) activities. Seek to improve workplace experience through adjustments to physical systems and interior design.
• Partner with local eSports leadership to drive effective Workplace Experience programs and provide insight on workplace needs. Monitor vendor(s) safety performance and conduct regular evaluations. 
• Oversee budget adherence and perform more advanced forecasting activities. Manage procurement process and administrative activities for medium size and/or complexity contracts. Seek to identify cost-savings opportunities and support annual budget planning.
• Ensure appropriate WE programs are in place and identify and propose adjusted and/or new WE programs that maximize Rioter effectiveness and experience. Partner with local leadership to drive effective Workplace Experience programs and provide insight on workplace needs. 
• Plan and support local office events, including eSports tournaments and other large events, to support Riot culture as a great place to make games. Coordinate logistic support for meetings & office-wide events. This may include, but is not limited to, planning, communications, vendor coordination and day-of assistance. 

 APAC CRE 

• Build and maintain relationships with regional leadership to guarantee a high functioning workplace and workplace experience. Liaise with Riot leadership to understand business strategies and apply them to real estate and construction considerations.
• Assess regional real estate market conditions, trends, and indicators that support Riot’s real estate goals and fit Rioter needs in the APAC region. Effectively communicate real estate opportunities and risks, transaction summaries, trends, and market research to WE management.
• Oversee regional lease administration and management services for APAC, ensuring compliance with GAAP accounting requirements and local laws and regulations. 
• Manage projects within time, budget, and quality constraints to meet Riot needs using an Agile Scrum methodology. Organize, coordinate, and delegate project tasks to support project completion.
• Partner with the central construction and real estate (CRE) team to ensure APAC transactions and projects align with the central strategy. Share regional perspective with central teams to bring the regional perspective into strategic planning efforts.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business needs, conceptualize projects, and bring the vision to fruition using real estate and construction acumen. Coordinate all aspects of construction team needs and oversee the team, including, but not limited to, external brokers, architects, contractors, systems integrators, etc. 
• Ensure management of projects within constraints of time, budget, and quality. This includes punch-lists and close-out procedures to ensure vendors have achieved stated program goals and sites can become operational.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Legal, Strategic Finance, Accounting, HR, and Procurement to ensure Rioters’ needs are met. 

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience as a supervisor in office management, ideally in the gaming or technology industry.
• 6+ years of experience of working behind the scenes to keep an office running smoothly (i.e., providing facilities or maintenance service in a busy organization). 
• Experience working with contractors and suppliers and monitoring of service standards. Knowledge of accounting and procurement processes.
• Strong work ethic with the ability to take initiative, function in a fast-paced working environment, with immediate and changing deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize workload, with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong problem solving and decision making skills. Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and time management are a must.
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.  Ability to interact comfortably and effectively with managers and employees at all levels within our company.

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!