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Director, Technical Product Management: Commerce
Riot Games INC · 🇺🇸 Mercer Island, USA
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 64 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 33 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Riot Games INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Technical Product Manager III” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in CA: $129k–$237k, median $158k. Most were filed at wage level I (50%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 64 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 33 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Publishing Platform is building the capabilities that connect Riot’s games, players, and broader ecosystem. Within the Publishing Platform, the Commerce Initiative creates a unified foundation for how players discover, purchase, earn, and receive champions and cosmetics across Riot’s games and experiences. As the Director, Technical Product Management and Commerce Initiative Product Lead , you will own the product vision, strategy, and outcomes for the Commerce Initiative team of teams. You will lead a portfolio of product teams and product leaders across Commerce, aligning Inventory, Progression, Store, Fulfillment, Payments, Fraud, Partnerships, Configuration, Tooling, and related capabilities around a coherent platform strategy and a compelling value proposition for players, game teams, and Riot. You will combine strong product judgment with technical depth. You will guide investment in player experiences, live services, data, machine learning, workflows, release pipelines, and platform capabilities; make difficult tradeoffs across teams and time horizons; and ensure that Commerce becomes a scalable force multiplier for Riot’s games rather than a collection of disconnected products. This role requires leadership through both formal ownership and influence. You will partner closely with engineering, design, data, operations, machine learning, publishing, game teams, Publishing Platform leadership, and senior leaders across Riot to turn ambiguous opportunities into durable products and measurable outcomes. Responsibilities: Set the Commerce Product Direction • Own and communicate the Commerce Initiative vision, mission, strategy, and multi-year roadmap, translating Riot and Publishing Platform priorities into clear investments, product goals, and success measures. • Identify emerging player, game-team, business, and technology opportunities, determining where Commerce should lead, partner, or deliberately not invest. • Ensure Commerce strategy balances player and game-team needs, business outcomes, and long-term platform health while creating shared value across its products and teams. Lead a Multi-Team Technical Product Portfolio • Lead product management across a portfolio of commerce products, services, and platform capabilities, establishing clear ownership, decision rights, and accountability across teams. • Drive prioritization and sequencing across competing opportunities, balancing customer value, business impact, technical risk, operational costs, time to value, and organizational capacity. • Guide teams through the full product lifecycle, from discovery and strategy through delivery, adoption, operations, and iteration, ensuring accountability for outcomes. • Establish effective decision-making frameworks that empower product leaders to navigate ambiguity, proactively address ownership gaps, remove obstacles, and operate with autonomy. Drive Technical and Platform Strategy • Partner with engineering leaders to shape a scalable technical strategy across services, data, machine learning, integrations, workflows, and platform capabilities. • Lead complex technical product decisions involving architecture, technical debt, build-versus-buy, platform reuse, migrations, reliability, privacy, and compliance. • Ensure Commerce capabilities are discoverable, usable, and economically viable for game teams and internal customers, improving developer experience and operational efficiency. • Advocate for foundational technical investments by connecting platform health and architectural decisions to player value, business outcomes, and long-term strategy, while anticipating systemic risks, cross-product dependencies, and downstream impacts. Build Customer and Stakeholder Alignment • Champion player and game-team ne