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Lead vision, strategy, and product discovery for Riot's Social SDK. Drive roadmap, manage stakeholder relationships with game teams, prioritize backlog, define SLAs, and collaborate with engineering, design, and QA to deliver scalable social platform features (voice/text chat, presence, shared interfaces).

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games, you'll enhance developer experience and efficiency across VALORANT by designing tools, mentoring junior engineers, and influencing best practices in a collaborative environment.

Define and lead modeling architecture for personalization, matchmaking, recommendations, and social discovery. Build large-scale real-time inference systems, develop models for skill, behavior, trust & safety, and multi-objective optimization. Drive Responsible AI, experimentation, observability, and cross-functional standards while mentoring senior engineers and influencing ML strategy.

Lead development of VALORANT build and developer-facing platforms. Improve iteration workflows across local development, Unreal build/cook systems, CI, release infrastructure, and tooling. Drive architecture and long-term initiatives, resolve cross-system bottlenecks, collaborate with stakeholders, mentor engineers, and participate in support rotation.

As a Senior Game Designer, you will design competitive systems, conduct playtests, and collaborate with teams to optimize player experience in VALORANT.

Lead a team of 5–10 engineers building and improving VALORANT core game services. Define technical vision, drive architecture and platform improvements, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-region delivery with Tencent, ensure service quality and reliability, participate in on-call rotation, and advocate for players and internal customers.