Established in early 2016, the Hong Kong Studio is Riot’s first international game development studio. We’re a diverse team, representing more than 15 nationalities and partnering with teams in the LA headquarters on League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runeterra. On top of this, we’re currently building teams for VALORANT, a character-based tactical shooter, and Project L, our take on the fighting game genre. While operating like a startup—with autonomy and total ownership—we’re doubling down on our goals to build a world-class studio in a vibrant, international city, on a continent that is home to the League of Legends World Champion teams. The Hong Kong Studio is looking for talented, passionate people across all aspects of game development to help build Riot’s blueprint for a global, multi-studio world... and to make great games! We focus on working together to promote individual autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and inclusivity so every Rioter can be their best while we boldly pursue games. This means less emphasis on titles and hierarchy and more emphasis on creating the right environment to ship excellent experiences to players.
That's where you come in.
Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in different domains. As an Engineering Manager of our biggest game, League of Legends, you’ll predominantly act as the key enabler of the engineering team and bridge the impact, with art. You’ll also serve as a mentor for multiple engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and performance.
As an Engineering Manager, you will report directly to the Studio Head of Engineering and will help determine our technical foundations while developing a team of 4-7 Software Engineers. You will work collaboratively with other disciplines to bring your engineering mindset in helping make better product decisions for players. You will directly work with the HR Business Partners to build a team of outstanding Engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a group of 4-7 software engineers, coaching them in their personal development
- Collaborate with discipline, product, and office leadership to develop strategies for improving team health and effectiveness
- Champion your sourcing/hiring processes to identify and hire engineers
- Take an active part in delivering on the technical health of product
- Advocate for maintaining the technical foundation for the product
- Develop processes and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of cross-team collaboration with remote offices
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years professional experience as a software engineer
- 3+ years as an Engineering Manager leading a team of 3+ engineers
- Experience recruiting candidates and growing an Engineering team
- Experience participating in technical discussions including code reviews, technical design reviews or creating new standards to improve the team
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in game development using Unreal Engine 4 or Unity
- Desire to work collaboratively with your Engineering team on technical design and implementation
- Experience with scalable systems architecture and developing large, maintainable software systems
- Experience using your skills to meet the needs of the product, including leading small teams, coaching new leaders, or diving into the code as an individual contributor
- You promote an environment where individuals on the team feel included and are encouraged to contribute their perspectives to help the team make better decisions
- Passionate about gaming; You value player empathy as much as we do; never losing sight of the person who will use the software that you and your team build
- Experience managing and guiding leaders and team members through influence rather than through authority
Our Perks:
- Full relocation support
- Full health insurance for you, your spouse and children
- Open paid time off
- Retirement benefits with company matching
- Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability
- Play Fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games
- We will double down on your donations of time and money to non-profits
Don’t forget to include a resume and cover letter. We receive a lot of applications, but we will notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us that you take play seriously.
