Marketing Leadership at Riot transforms strategic objectives into creative campaigns. Marketing Leaders leverage the skills of creative partners (internal and vendors) to produce engaging experiences that players will love. 

As the Marketing Director for League of Legends (LoL), you will report into LoL Leadership. You will lead a cross-functional Marketing team, ensuring successful marketing strategy and execution for all products within the group (League of Legends, Team Fight Tactics, and LoL: Wild Rift), including brand definition, positioning of product releases, tent-pole moments, execution on marquee creative, developing KPIs on all efforts, and collaborating with partner teams to achieve cohesive player experiences (i.e. - K/DA) across the League ecosystem. 

Responsibilities

• Create major cultural impact for the League of Legends franchise, leading innovation throughout marketing to delight millions of players around the world and grow the business. 
• Recruit diverse and accomplished talent, developing their skills and defining career paths
• Drive business goals established by LoL leadership.
• Be the liaison between LoL and the Publishing organization at Riot 
• Ensure successful go-to-market efforts across World-Wide Publishing, including Central and International Publishing 
• Strengthen understanding and collaboration between product teams, central and regional publishing teams 
• Be a trusted member of the leadership team, advising on product strategy, advocating for the results of marketing strategy & execution, and ensuring team is being held accountable to goals.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Marketing strategy - knowledge of current tactics and capabilities required to market games worldwide. Track record of generating highly impactful marketing experiences
• Experience leading diverse Marketing teams; ability to inspire reports and manifest growth through influence and by example.
• Understand games-as-a-service or direct-to-consumer business models
• Proven ability to deeply understand an audience and what resonates with them
• Experience deriving insight about the competitive landscape, the marketing/communications environment, and cultural and technology trends. Then use that internal data and market analysis to conduct quantitative/qualitative analysis to ensure we are chasing the right opportunities.
• Experience communicating strategy to content creators and C-Suite members across various disciplines (i.e. - Production, Engineering, Creative)

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making 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 the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

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, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).