About the role
Role Overview
The Principal Technical Product Manager for VALORANT Foundations reports to the Director of Technical Product Management for VALORANT. This role identifies and leads high-impact opportunities across platforms that make the game predictable to build, release, and operate worldwide. Foundations supports engineers, artists, and designers through build and release pipelines, developer tools, workflows, engine capabilities, and core backend services. You will lead delivery across teams without direct authority.
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.
- Lead cross-functional teams through influence, bridging engineering reality and product requirements, and driving decisions to closure across groups owning build and release pipelines, the developer inner loop and editor, 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 seamlessly 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: bring agentic tooling into the product management 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, 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.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base Salary: $229,200.00 - $319,500.00 USD.
- Additional Compensation: Incentive compensation, equity.
- Benefits:
- 401K with company match.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Short and long-term disability.
- Open paid time off policy.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Parental leave for the employee, their spouse/domestic partner, and children.
Additional Information
- Locations: Mercer Island, USA (Primary); Los Angeles, USA (Additional).
- Work Environment: Focused on work/life balance, collaborative teams, and putting players first.
- Equal Opportunity: Policy provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members. Reasonable accommodations are made for handicapped and disabled individuals.
- Background Check: Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, duties may involve safeguarding sensitive company data, communicating with third parties/minors, accessing secure digital systems, and ensuring a safe interactive environment.