Principal Business Strategist - Platforms & Technology

The Strategic Advisory group helps empower Rioters' decision-making to be more data-informed. We believe that illuminating the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of gamers is essential to Riot living up to our player-focused mission. We're a group united by our love of games, science, and helping others succeed.

As a Principal Business Strategist, you’ll join the Strategic Advisory group - a group of researchers, analysts, data scientists, and strategists responsible for solving problems and executing analyses that enable Rioters to make difficult decisions with confidence. You’ll be part of an interdisciplinary team and work closely with Rioters from other disciplines (designers, artists, producers, etc.) to conduct studies and analyses that’ll inform the features, systems, and experiences of our products. Your background in data analysis and strategic decision making will ensure that you’re an effective advocate for players and can provide strategic guidance about their wants, needs, and behaviors.

Responsibilities:

• Independently tackle some of Riot’s most pressing strategic technology questions, such as creating or refining our long-term strategic plans or helping teams understand which capabilities they need to develop
• Identify and prioritize product choices that create competitive advantages and adapt to changing market dynamics, and ensure product strategy is connected with broader PlatTech, customer, and Riot strategy
• Perform ad-hoc analyses on behalf of the CTO and PlatTech leadership
• Mentor and coach to lift the expertise of advisory teams
• Improve PlatTech’s processes and systems to enable better, faster decision-making and greater insight into the organization
• Create and maintain systems and processes that ensure all advisory members of PlatTech are working on the right things, and doing so effectively

Required Qualifications:

• Precise attention to detail and organizational skills
• Familiarity with several of the following crafts and 5+ years experience in as least one:
• Excellent stakeholder management including working with, presenting to, managing and influencing executive stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to engage in healthy constructive debate
• Business Strategy - You possess strong analytical skills with the ability to address strategic and operational challenges and evaluate options from a variety of lenses
• Experience owning strategy development for a product or business in a leadership capacity and operationalizing that strategy via ownership or advisory
• Strong analytical and problem solving capability
• Capable of building strong collaborative relationships with peers across Riot
• Finance - You have broad and deep experience in strategic financial modeling, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), as well as a solid understanding of Accounting, Tax and Treasury considerations
• Experience leading cross-functional teams towards a shared vision / objective
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics or a related discipline plus 8 years of relevant experience (an advanced degree can account for up to 2 years of experience)
• Analytics or Research - You have a working knowledge of best practices in gathering, analyzing, and leveraging data and research to inform strategic direction

Desired Qualifications:

• Able to problem solve across multiple areas, often at the same time
• Technical experience or certifications, such as AWS Cloud Practitioner
• Relevant industry experience in tech, specifically with servers, connectivity, cloud computing, big data and others
• Appetite for continuous learning
• Familiarity with corporate finance and business processes

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

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.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $188,800.00 - $282,200.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

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, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).