Sr. Principal Technical Producer - Developer Connections

About the Role

As a Sr. Principal Technical Producer on the DevCon team at Riot Games, you will apply our production framework and operating system across defined capability areas within Code, Build, and Release. You will contribute to the operational strategy for our organization, the talent strategy for the production group, and the operating model that DevCon teams run on.

You will report to the DevCon lead for Technical Production.

Responsibilities

• Translating approved portfolio direction into executable technical roadmaps, reallocating resources and shifting organizational priorities to maximize strategic value.
• Directly shape department, BU, or region strategy through team and initiative leadership, and drive operational strategy within your organization.
• Drive production processes for the BU, working with BU leadership to build, adopt, and implement them within teams.
• Create alignment between organizations working toward common or complementary goals, and build systems that proactively surface conflict and route it to resolution.
• Lead significant change across multiple teams, processes, and efforts where the change has major effects on product, operations, or organization.
• Support recruiting and hiring across the BU as a trusted interviewer, contribute to interview kits and TA efforts, and mentor senior-level producers and leaders in other disciplines.
• Represent organizational delivery health, investment posture, and risk to executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in technical production, technical program management, or engineering leadership.
• Demonstrated ownership of operational strategy for an organization, with decisions of large to critical business impact.
• Broad understanding of many relevant technical domains and how they interact, with the ability to drive difficult technical decisions among leaders with opposing views.

Desired

• Agile certifications from Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, PMI, or ICAgile.
• Advanced Atlassian Power User (Jira Product Discovery, Jira Space Administration, Jira Plans) or Atlassian certifications.
• 4+ years managing people and experience growing teams and direct reports to achieve organizational goals.
• Experience building or supporting operational platforms, internal developer tooling, or cloud-based services.
• Experience with SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or incident response organizations.
• Experience delivering software for globally scaled, highly available systems.
• Experience building business cases and funding asks for technical investment.
• Experience owning portfolio-level investment tradeoffs and funding cases.
• Experience with multi-year planning horizons and cross-portfolio dependency management.