Principal Publishing Product Manager, Americas

As the Publishing Product Management Lead, Americas, you will play a critical role in shaping strategy across the Americas during a formative stage of a new product’s lifecycle. Reporting to the GM of the Americas and working closely with global leads and the development team, you will drive subregional strategies aligned with broader regional and global objectives. Your deep understanding of market trends, player behavior, and cultural nuances across the Americas will be critical as you work to deliver exceptional value to players while ensuring optimal operational efficiency and performance.

You will play a key role in advocating for the region’s needs in global decision-making processes and ensuring that product ecosystems and community involvement thrive across the Americas. This role is anchored in strong North America market expertise, while also requiring the cultural fluency and operational judgment to support Latin America and Brazil through effective local partnerships and vendors. In this role, you’ll also oversee budgeting and resource allocation to support the successful execution of regional goals. Above all, you will demonstrate a relentless, entrepreneurial drive to always be delivering for players.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute Americas regional strategies for various projects, ensuring alignment with global priorities and focusing on product ecosystems, community engagement, and cultural and market trends across North America, with informed support for Latin America and Brazil.
• Act as the regional expert on specific target audiences, sharing insights to product and brand teams in order to influence global publishing plans and the product itself.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams across product, publishing, brand, platform, and comms, operating with a startup mindset and bias toward action.
• Oversee subregional budgets, ensuring effective resource allocation and tracking performance to optimize results.
• Recommend and align country-based outcomes linked to regional key results, set performance indicators, and track publishing efforts' performance.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, serving as a core voice for Americas players throughout Riot and ensuring regional needs are prioritized in global decision-making.
• Identify risks in regional projects and provide cultural and market expertise while also ensuring alignment with global strategies.
• Scale impact through partners, including a broad ecosystem of agencies, vendors, first parties, and external partners, ensuring strong creative quality and operational execution.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, or comparable professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience in game publishing, entertainment, sports, or non-traditional media brands, with a track record of shaping regional strategies and delivering outcomes.
• Proven experience leading regional publishing or marketing strategy across multiple markets in the Americas, with deep expertise in North America strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of cultural and consumer dynamics across the Americas, including the ability to partner effectively with vendors and external stakeholders to support Latin America and Brazil.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with comfort operating in ambiguity and early-stage product environments.
• Clear, confident communicator with experience representing regional perspectives to senior global leadership.

Desired Qualifications:

• Multilingual capabilities relevant to the region, especially Spanish and/or Portuguese, enhancing communication with local stakeholders, partners, and vendors.
• Demonstrated success delivering multiplatform strategies, including PC and first party console ecosystems
• Extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment and working with working with teams across various geographies.

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.