Senior Program Manager (Brand Partnerships)

Location: Not specified. Requires willingness to travel approximately 20–30% annually, domestically and internationally, and to work evenings, weekends, and holidays when needed for major events and partner activations.

Company

Riot Games creates games, entertainment, esports, and social impact experiences supported by global and regional commercial partnerships.

What you will do

• Lead the operating process for regional brand partnership opportunities from identification and evaluation through contracting, activation, measurement, renewal, and expansion.
• Establish frameworks, workflows, milestones, governance models, and decision points that align regional opportunities with Riot’s global partnership strategy.
• Coordinate Publishing, Esports, Games, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Business Development, regional teams, and external partners across complex initiatives.
• Manage the Esports World Cup partnership, including planning, obligations, activation, governance, stakeholder coordination, and executive reporting.
• Maintain the regional partnership pipeline and provide leadership with reporting, insights, risks, recommendations, and performance recaps.
• Advocate for partner objectives and contractual deliverables while ensuring activations support Riot’s products, players, and brand.

Requirements

• 6–8 years of program management experience, including 3–4 years in brand partnerships, partnership management, business development, sponsorship, account management, strategic partnerships, or a related field.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional brand partnership programs across multiple teams, regions, or business units.
• Experience managing multiple high-value opportunities with defined workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies, and decision points.
• Experience managing senior relationships with external brands, agencies, rights holders, or strategic partners.
• Strong executive communication, analytical, strategic problem-solving, stakeholder management, planning, organization, and follow-through skills.
• Willingness to travel approximately 20–30% annually and support major events and partner activations outside standard working hours.

Nice to have

• Experience in gaming, esports, sports, entertainment, media, technology, or other IP-driven partnership businesses.
• Experience designing partnership processes, governance models, pipeline systems, or operating frameworks across distributed teams.
• Understanding of integrated marketing and the ability to connect partner objectives with fan and player experiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; an MBA or related advanced degree is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on craft expertise, cross-functional teamwork, and player-first decision-making.
• Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Parental leave for employees, spouses or domestic partners, and children.
• 401(k) with company match.