Director, Publishing Content Strategy (Editor In Chief) - Publishing, Valorant

As Editor-in-Chief for the VALORANT game experience, you'll work across teams to ensure that on the day-to-day we are curating, surfacing, and delivering content that is the most meaningful for VALORANT players. As an expert in the VALORANT audience, you'll lead a matrixed team to ensure we are delivering the most resonant, community-led content to players at every touchpoint across the VALORANT ecosystem across the game, the sport, and community content across all VAL channels. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead a matrixed team of player communications, community, influencer, social, and content planners across the game ecosystem/experience to ensure we have a clear player journey, clear takeaways, and clear narrative for players month over month and day to day
• Act as "Editor in Chief" of the day to day player experience: Drive day-to-day player journeys in alignment with the vision of the holistic player experience across game, sport, entertainment, and community content
• Define and/or align all player facing content with key player experience and business outcomes
• Partner with Publishing Lead and Brand Lead to ensure product and brand goals are met in day to day narrative
• Partner with Riot's Head of Community to drive holistic goals for the VALORANT community through resonant content creation and amplification
• Build a "player comms/community" newsroom to ensure monthly/daily/hourly connectivity with our audiences 
• Ensure all content shipped to players falls within a defined player experience as defined by the VALORANT leadership team
• Define core curated content for the [game] player experience for the monthly/weekly/daily player experience
• Inform ongoing product and brand planning by representing the player comms/community landscape
• Drive holistic content and product planning/orchestration across pillars
• Define strategic opportunity spaces for dev-to-player communications
• Identify strategic opportunity spaces to create content or highlight community content
• Maintain open communication and visibility with the product team and publishing team on what matters most for players, including daily/weekly monthly/quarterly reporting on community sentiment
• Define risks and opportunities for player sentiment and the brand overall on the [game] publishing leadership team
• Partner with the VALORANT publishing lead and brand leads across pillars to build an ecosystem content calendar
• Stay deeply connected to the VALORANT player to ensure our matrixed "Comms/Munity" pods are communicating and reacting to what matters most for any given moment

Required Qualifications (Skills and Experience):

• 10+ years experience in product strategy, Content Strategy, communications, or community management
• 7+ years experience with gaming audiences, especially shooters
• 5+ years of leading a team (either directly or accountable for) towards shared outcomes
• Intimate knowledge of the global games landscape, current competition, innovations, trends, and ever-evolving player expectations
• Well-versed in leading cross-disciplinary teams and able to influence stakeholders
• Excellent communicator- verbal and written
• Deep experience creating and communicating communications strategies that span across multiple platforms and delivery channels
• Experience across PC, mobile, and console platforms, 
• Citizen of the internet - you're an autodidact and create time to understand what conversations are happening and how we can engage on behalf of our audience

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to 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.