About the role
Role Overview
As a Principal Technical Product Manager for VALORANT Foundations, you will identify and lead high-impact opportunities across platforms that make the game predictable to build, release, and operate worldwide. Foundations serves VALORANT’s engineers, artists, and designers through build and release pipelines, developer tools and workflows, engine capabilities, and core backend services. You will work with engineering leads, game teams, and central technology partners to drive delivery across teams without direct authority. Success is measured in faster development workflows, more predictable releases, and sustainable growth.
Responsibilities
- Define and align product strategy for critical, cross-cutting platform areas, prioritizing outcomes that create measurable value for developers and players.
- Bring strategic structure and clarity to Foundations' hardest, most ambiguous initiatives to ensure long-term success.
- Lead cross-functional teams through influence, bridging engineering reality and product requirements, and driving decisions to closure across groups that own build/release pipelines, developer inner loops, editors, engine capabilities, and core backend services.
- Serve as a strategic proxy for Foundations leadership, owning high-stakes opportunities end-to-end.
- Partner with engineering leads to ensure platform solutions are robust, scalable, and integrated into developer workflows.
- Broker across the seam with central tech team partners, representing VALORANT's needs into shared platforms and negotiating ownership.
- Translate empathy for internal developers into infrastructure and tooling that solves genuine pain points; champion data-informed decisions.
- Champion AI-augmented ways of working by bringing agentic tooling into the PM craft to compress cycle time and model modern product management for Foundations.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant experience in Technical Product Management or a related engineering/technical field.
- Familiarity with the game development lifecycle: engines, art/build toolchains, and live-ops workflows.
- 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.
- Experience translating open-ended or ambiguous technical capabilities into concrete product roadmaps with defined milestones and success metrics.
- 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.
Desired Qualifications
- 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 organization serving multiple teams.
- Hands-on familiarity with Unreal Engine and the Unreal Editor.
Perks and Benefits
- Open paid time off policy.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and life insurance.
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
- 401k with company match.
- Short and long-term disability.
Compensation
- Base salary range: $229,200.00 - $319,500.00 USD.
- Additional compensation: Incentive compensation, equity, and standard benefits package.
Working Conditions and Company Culture
- Riot Games focuses on work/life balance and player-first values.
- Collaborative, team-based environment aimed at supporting players.
- Equal employment opportunity policy covering all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, or criminal history.
- Core duties related to safety and trust include safeguarding confidential data, communicating with stakeholders, accessing secure digital systems, and ensuring a safe interactive environment.