Principal Technical Product Manager - Publishing Platform, Content Access Platform
Core
Own and operate large-scale, distributed services supporting millions of players to purchase digital goods (champions, cosmetics) and manage inventory fulfillment across Riot's game ecosystem.
Role type
Principal Technical Product Manager (Platform/Commerce)
Builds
Microservices for store, inventory fulfillment, and randomization systems; platform solutions for game developers.
Domain
Gaming / E-commerce / Distributed Systems
Required skills
Strategic product vision, leading backend engineering teams, large-scale microservice architecture, organizational complexity navigation, translating ambiguous technical capabilities to roadmaps, owning platform/developer-tools products, integrating agentic AI tooling.
Preferred skills
E-commerce platform experience (payments, fraud, inventory), global product/regulatory compliance, designing for internal technical customers, live services/gaming environment experience, creating reusable platform capabilities.
Technologies
Microservices, distributed services, agentic AI tooling, payments systems, fraud detection systems.
Responsibilities
Define and align product strategy for cross-cutting platform areas; lead engineers to design and build critical microservices; partner with engineering leads on robust, scalable solutions; design, prototype, and ship new features; execute on-call support for live products; communicate product vision and multi-year roadmap.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
