Technical Producer, VALORANT - Release Engineering & China Coordination

Location: Based in Sydney, Australia

Riot Games puts players first to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player.

Overview

As a Technical Producer on the Release Engineering team, you’ll focus on ensuring global release pipeline stability and act as Riot’s main operational producer liaison to Tencent for VALORANT. You’ll partner with engineers, QA, release managers, Riot teams, Riot China, and Tencent to deliver high-quality client and service updates that support VALORANT’s global and regional goals.

What you will do

• Lead and manage day-to-day execution for VALORANT’s Release Engineering team.
• Facilitate Agile rituals to maintain cadence and delivery clarity.
• Support incident triage and escalation workflows to ensure release stability and responsiveness.
• Collaborate with Tech Leads and Product Managers to translate strategy into executable plans and stable operational practices.
• Champion continuous improvement in team processes, metrics, and performance.
• Unblock engineering and QA teams by managing dependencies, resolving delivery risks, and optimizing work systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience with strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience as a Producer, Project Manager, or Development Manager on medium to large teams or across multiple organizations.
• Fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese and English; comfortable leading projects in both languages.
• Proven experience managing execution for software or game teams, including cross-team coordination and release workflows.
• Ability to drive multi-team collaboration and lead projects with distributed or external partners
• Availability for time-shifted work hours and travel.

Nice to have

• Experience working with China-based software development teams
• Familiarity with DevOps / release infrastructure tools (e.g. Jenkins, Perforce, Git, CI/CD systems, release automation tools).
• Experience working with Console release certification processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Open paid time off policy, paid parental leave, and flexible work schedules.
• Co-op gaming areas and a play fund.
• Medical Insurance.
• Wellness fund.
• Learning and Development opportunities.