Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That's where you come in.

As an Event Production Manager for Riot’s SEA Esports, you will work together with both the League of Legends and the VALORANT Esports teams to produce the local leagues and events that take place in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Australia & New Zealand. You’ll be responsible for strategy, planning, execution, tracking, and project management for events of the leagues.

Responsibilities:

• Lead strategic planning and project management for event production in the region
• Oversee the vendor sourcing and hiring processes, including RFP, contract, payment, and reconciliation
• Create and manage the event production budget to ensure we are spending wisely to deliver high quality content and experience for our fans
• Work closely with the event production vendors to ensure execution of the production of our events (by either vendors or internal teams) are aligned with the pre-agreed creative vision and quality standard.
• Collaborate with the APAC Esports Product, Broadcasting, Content, Marketing, and Commercial Partnerships teams to ensure all product requirements are met at the production level
• Coordinate with the Global Event, Broadcast, and Production teams to ensure the adherence of the global production guidelines both internally and externally
• Regularly review the planning and execution process and make improvement plans. Share these improvement plans with internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicate project deliverables, priorities, milestones, and any changes to and between the internal and external stakeholders
• Track progress and create regular updates to report the progress to the senior leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of work experience in event, production or project management with oversight responsibilities for multiple, large-scale projects
• Experience working with US, EU, or APAC teams
• Experience creating and managing budgets
• Experience managing vendors

Desired Qualifications:

• 7+ years of cumulative work experience
• Experience working on event, broadcast or content production in sports or Esports
• Experience working with or at an Esports production vendor
• Fluent in any of the Southeast Asian languages

The PM/BA will be the privileged contact for user representatives during the analysis and project phases, and will be responsible for all standard project management tasks such as:

- Preliminary studies and analysis

- Planning and budget elaboration and follow-up

- Organize and run dedicated committees (steering committees, project committees, etc)

- Identify and report on project risks, attention points and issues to follow-up

- Requirements and general functional specifications (GFS): Coordination of workshops, minutes, writing GFS, Review and validation with Sponsors, Presentation and support to Dev Team, etc

- Coordinate all teams, from same division or other divisions, working on the same project

- Plan the migration strategy and change management activities related to these new projects

- Coordinate, supervise and contribute to Users Acceptance Tests (UAT) related to new implementations

- Ensure the good relationship with business sponsors and stakeholders on each location

At least 5 years of experience in:

• Banking Industry, as a Project Manager and/or as Business Analyst

• Core Banking processes and features :

• Strong knowledge of transaction capture, settlement and accounting booking

• Good knowledge of financial products and on their underlying (Securities, Payments, Money Markets, Foreign Exchange, Credit, Derivatives and Structured Products, Commodities)

• Regulatory Reporting (e.g. MIFID2, Cost and Charge Reporting to clients)

• Reconciliation and matching systems (e.g. Intellimatch)

• Payment and transaction settlement systems (SWIFT, SEPA, local domestic systems in Europe and in Asia)

• Excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written.

• Strong proficiency with Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Visio

Familiar with project management tools as well as issue and release management, production and support (JIRA, Service Now, PPM tools, etc)

Scope of project(s)

• Core Banking Platform, Corporate Actions, Settlements and Payments, Reconciliation systems, Regulatory Reporting

• Transversal projects involving other domains, but with a major impact on Core Banking platform.

Responsibilities and skills required:

• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third-parties to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional requirements, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, Screen and Interface designs, Business process designs

• Define requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis.

• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans

• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, managers, subject matter experts and technical teams.

• Serves as the conduit between the customer community and the technology teams through which requirements flow.

• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates & methodology

• Collaborate with the team’s experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.

Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.