The Esports team is focused on delivering amazing fan experiences through our global events and regional competitions. Our professional and semi-professional competitive tiers in League of Legends, VALORANT and other Esports involve thousands of players and hundreds of organizations competing every week.

This Esports Event Producer is responsible for providing operational and strategic program management across Global Esports Events (e.g., League Worlds and MSI, VAL Masters and Champs), as well as collaboration as needed with the regional leagues (e.g., LTA, LEC), across the Esports pillar, a fast-growing division at Riot started in 2009, with ~5x growth in fans over the last 7-8 years. The division currently spans five games, thousands of professional players, over 100M fans across the globe.  

The Producer, Event Programs is responsible for being the event strategic planning bridge; working with Event Producers and internal stakeholders to drive strategic projects and programs that codify insights, build and share best practices, and document historical and current processes. In this role, you will build and maintain relationships internally and externally around programs that deepen fandom, drive cost efficiencies, and increase revenue opportunities.  You will liaison between both the Valorant and League of Legends teams to support ongoing operational gaps and flex into changing business needs.

You will also be responsible for collaborating with a matrix of stakeholders to unite Riot’s ecosystem around Global Esports moments.  Programs include but are not limited to ticketing and fan experience strategy, event briefing, location selection processes, partnerships pipeline, strategic insights, research studies, city/government relations, and various other operational efficiencies. This role will report to the Director of Global Esports Events Producers and will collaborate on executive presentations, distilling complex information into actionable insights.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the future events planning group: proactively managing meetings, gathering product needs, updating source of truth (SOT) documents and ensuring internal teams have visibility on upcoming events and multi-year roadmap. Including, but not limited to:
• Be a liaison to create consistency across both product team(s) of event producers providing consistency, operational support, and event coordination as needed.
• Develop programs to support Global Esports Events internal and external learning goals focused around deepening fandom, creating efficiencies, and identifying revenue opportunities. 
• Establish timelines, work systems, and track progress with stakeholders. Develop evaluation tools that measure effectiveness of programs and work with leadership on prioritization.
• Directly lead operations of the Event Producers team; establish cross-product processes, documentation, retrospectives, best practices, and work systems.
• Assist as needed in resource and scenario planning, forecasting, and managing department and program operating expenses. 
• Communicate event project scope, schedules, deliverable dates, project status/action items and any other relevant information.
• Partner with creative and production teams to brainstorm and produce global events, sharing learnings and documentation across products, events, and regions.
• Collaborate and drive initiatives with Riot esports teams such as Operations, Business Development, Partnerships, Entertainment, and Publishing in the planning of events and ad-hoc projects.  
• Manage and maintain senior relationships across Riot Games for collaboration across events and the event portfolio.
• Prepare and present insights, reports, and recommendations to senior stakeholders as necessary

Required Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience in events, production or account management in esports, games, entertainment, tech, or traditional sports industries.
• Highly collaborative, with experience managing cross-regional, multi-timezone teams and stakeholders.  Managing external and remote teams or large-scale projects involving numerous contributors.  
• Process driven with experience developing and implementing organizational processes that scale as well as experience with distilling complex information for executive review and presentations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Hands-on experience onsite at events, with a solid background in events strategy, events production, and project management.
• Must have a valid passport and be able to travel globally as needed, including up to 2 weeks at a time and up to 20% per year (potentially more pending specific assignments and projects).
• Understanding of the business of live events.
• Experience with Google Workspace, Slack and Airtable (Riot’s preferred platforms)

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with large-scale events for 5,000+ attendees in major markets/arenas worldwide.
• Experience with traditional project management methodologies and agile.
• Experience with the complexities of international event planning, regional nuances, venue contracts, and risk mitigation factors.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.