Principal Technical Product Manager (VALORANT, Developer Tooling)

Join Riot Games as a Principal Technical Product Manager for VALORANT Foundations. In this role, you will develop and execute strategies for Riot's products and technologies, leading diverse teams to deliver creative solutions to technical and experiential challenges. You will work closely with engineering leads, game teams, and central technology partners to drive decisions and deliver results. Your success will be measured by faster development workflows, more predictable releases, and sustainable growth for VALORANT.

About Riot Games

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!

Responsibilities

• Développer et exécuter des stratégies pour les produits et technologies de Riot, en dirigeant des équipes diverses pour résoudre des défis techniques.
• Identifier et diriger les opportunités à fort impact pour les plateformes qui rendent le jeu prévisible à construire, à publier et à exploiter.
• Définir et aligner la stratégie produit pour des domaines critiques, en priorisant les résultats qui créent une valeur mesurable pour les développeurs et les joueurs.
• Familiarity with the game development lifecycle: engines, art/build toolchains, live-ops workflows

Requirements

• Proven ability to operate at a Principal level, navigating organizational complexity to drive outcomes without direct authority
• Strong technical background (CS degree or equivalent experience) sufficient to credibly debate tradeoffs with engineering leads
• Track record owning platform, developer-tools, or systems products with internal customers
• Experience integrating agentic AI tooling into the product-management craft, using agents to shorten the loop from insight to execution
• 8+ years of relevant experience in Technical Product Management or a related engineering/technical field
• Experience translating open-ended or ambiguous technical capabilities into concrete product roadmaps with defined milestones and success metrics
• Experience with developer experience / platform-as-a-product domains, including internal platforms, SDKs, or CI/CD tooling
• Experience operating across the studio/central-tech boundary, or in a shared-infrastructure org serving multiple teams

Preferred

• Hands-on familiarity with Unreal Engine and the Unreal Editor, VALORANT's engine and the primary environment its developers work in

Pay

USD 229,200 - 319,500