Directors of Production lead teams, initiatives and products from conception through launch and operation inside of the gaming space. They create and align teams to product vision, have a deep understanding of player needs, competitors and market conditions, and are able to balance scope, quality and time to predictably deliver at a high quality bar for players. VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As a Director, Game Production on the VALORANT team you are responsible for helping Riot deliver first in class experiences to our players. You will keep the players' experience in mind as you track progress, deliver content/features, and organize priorities and goals. You will partner across disciplines to provide genre-defining experiences to our players.  Responsibilities: Creates, evangelizes and drives a multi-year, multi-team operational vision for initiatives and large development teams Partners with Product Management to manage the portfolio of strategic opportunities for their area, re-allocating resources and shifting organizational priorities to maximize strategic value of plans Partners with cross-discipline leadership to define expected outcomes for full product or large organization initiatives Leverages structured frameworks to ensure consistent communication, decision making, and prioritization around planned initiatives Builds reaction / maintenance plans for live / launched initiative outcomes and owns decision making for those plans Directs planning, estimation and execution of development processes across a large organization or business unit Oversees the delivery of global software projects utilizing both internal and external distributed development teams Ensures that initiatives under their watch can be tested early and iterated on prior to final release in order to maximize value and minimize wasted effort Actively advances Riot's understanding of sustainable development, bu