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The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will oversee multiple engineering teams for an unpublished R&D product, defining engineering strategy, managing performance, and shaping product development. This role requires a hands-on approach in implementation and close collaboration with product teams, focusing on backend systems for game development and scaling technologies effectively.

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Riot’s esports publishing platform. Lead global live operations, real-time data features, broadcast tooling, tournament services, authentication scaling, and esports data commercialization. Partner with engineering and technical teams on architecture, scalability, prioritization, and delivery while safeguarding 99.9% infrastructure reliability during major events. Translate customer and ecosystem needs into requirements, KPIs, OKRs, and shipped products.

Conduct complex game and portfolio analytics to assess product health, player behavior, and performance. Apply statistical modeling and machine learning, build scalable dashboards and datasets, partner with Data Engineering on production analytics, and deliver strategic recommendations to product leaders. Mentor analysts, improve reporting consistency, and lead cross-functional analytical workstreams across game design, engineering, and product teams.

Lead rendering engineer building engine and rendering systems for a new AAA MMO. Collaborate with art and design to implement, optimize, and tool rendering pipelines, improve performance, and resolve asset/pipeline issues across platforms.

Lead a team of data engineers supporting VALORANT to build scalable data infrastructure, set technical direction, ensure data quality and compliance, partner with analytics/product teams, optimize costs, and establish engineering best practices and tooling across Riot.

Design, build, and optimize large-scale ETL pipelines and data models powering player and publishing insights. Architect high-performance data solutions, automate workflows, ensure data quality and compliance, mentor engineers, optimize costs and query performance, and drive tooling/standards for centralized analytics at scale.

Lead publishing product strategy for an unannounced game from early R&D through global launch and live operations. Define target audiences, player value, market opportunities, positioning, success metrics, and go-to-market plans. Partner with product, design, development, insights, publishing, and regional teams to validate hypotheses, guide roadmaps, align senior stakeholders, and ensure publishing readiness. Identify ecosystem, community, competitive, and regional opportunities while shaping long-term player engagement.

Lead the strategy, architecture, deployment, and operation of League of Legends’ AI/ML platforms at global scale. Establish MLOps, serving, feature platform, governance, security, observability, incident response, and cost optimization standards. Drive implementation across multiple products, improve ML developer experience, mentor senior engineers, coach cross-functional teams, and influence recruiting and product strategy.

Lead a team of 5+ engineers building scalable game-platform services (game provisioning, data delivery, leaderboards). Manage hiring, onboarding, performance, and career growth. Own technical roadmap, design reviews, code reviews, and live service operations including on-call troubleshooting and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliability and scalability.

Lead multiple engineering teams for VALORANT, overseeing service development, performance management, and cross-team collaboration, while driving technical direction and operational excellence.