AddressThe travel team supports Riot and Rioters in multiple ways, including corporate travel, expense reimbursement, and supporting our Esports travel.
The Travel Senior Manager at Riot leads the global travel team and has overall responsibility for crafting and maintaining the corporate travel policy, negotiating the travel aspects of large-scale events, overseeing the expense reimbursement process, administering the credit card program, managing travel-related projects, collaborating with senior stakeholders, and owning the end-to-end experience of travel software used at Riot. This role leads a small, globally- distributed team and reports to the SVP, Treasury.
Responsibilities:
- Create, modify, maintain, and communicate a dynamic global corporate travel policy
- Collaborate with Corporate Events and Esports to find optimal travel solutions for events of various sizes through strong project management, practical innovation, and thought partnership
- Oversee multi-faceted negotiations of all major accommodation and air travel contracts globally
- Manage integration and execution of global credit card program and align with expense reimbursement program for each territory
- Assist stakeholders in finance and accounting on key projects, providing accruals assistance, controls mitigation, or working on applicable month-end activities
- Create, manage, and disseminate reporting on travel KPIs for management decision making and policy adherence
- Support Talent / Legal teams with visibility and specialty reporting on personnel issues related to travel and expense
- Provide development and mentorship for junior travel and expense team members located globally to unlock their growth in current or future roles
- Develop messaging for Riot regions or global teams related to travel and expense changes
- Work with joint task force teams to support unique projects (historically: work from home, travel restrictions, or uncommon expensing)
Required Qualifications:
- 14+ years of corporate and event travel experience, 5+ years leading travel teams
- Strong negotiation skills
- Excellent communication & presentation skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets and PowerPoint or Google Slides
- Extensive experience with Concur or other Online Booking Tools
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelors preferred
- Experience managing large projects and dependencies
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on 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 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.
- (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $142,700.00 - $198,500.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
