Product Management at Riot Games

What a journey! Paul Bellezza responded to a Craigslist ad for a humble games start-up called Riot Games in Los Angeles as Employee #6 in 2006. Since then, he's lived through the meteoric rise of Riot Games and the massive growth of the company from the game League of Legends.

Paul serves as Product Manager: R&D working on new game concepts at Riot and he talks about his experience as a product manager and what that role means at Riot.

What does it mean to be a PM at Riot?

How does Riot think about PM for new game designs/concepts?

What can we expect in the future from Riot from a product perspective? From a PM perspective?

The Origin Story behind Team Fight Tactics!!!

How did Paul get hired at Riot?

Content Overview:

• 0:12 What Is It Like to Work at Riot?

• 2:30 History and Origin of Riot Games

• 6:20 How is The Company Structured?

• 9:18 The Product Manager Role at Riot

• 11:25 What Are the Key Roles at Riot?

• 13:30 What Does Your Day to Day Look Like?

• 14:55 Skills to Be Successful Live Ops vs New Games PMs

• 17:45 New Game Development at Riot

• 20:27 How Did Team Fight Tactics Come About?

• 23:32 How Surprised Was Riot at Success of TFT?

• 25:40 Emerging Trends and Changes to Riot in the Future

• 28:03 How Did You Get Hired at Riot?

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