Principal Technical Product Manager - VALORANT, Developer Tooling

Los Angeles · Mercer Island · 8+ years experience · Posted Sep 24, 2026

At a glance

As a Principal Technical Product Manager for VALORANT Foundations, you will identify and lead the highest-impact opportunities across platforms that make the game predictable to build, release, and operate worldwide.
Foundations serves VALORANT's engineers, artists, and designers through build and release pipelines, developer tools and workflows, engine capabilities, and core backend services.
You will bring independent product judgment to ambiguous problems, build support for a clear direction, and lead delivery across teams without direct authority.

Define and align product strategy for critical, cross-cutting platform areas, prioritizing outcomes that create measurable value for developers and players
Bring strategic structure and clarity to Foundations' hardest, most ambiguous initiatives so they're set up for long-term success
Lead cross-functional teams through influence, bridging engineering reality and product requirements, and driving decisions to closure across the groups that own build and release pipelines, the developer inner loop and editor, engine capabilities, and core backend services, all without direct authority
Serve as a strategic proxy for Foundations leadership, stepping in with autonomy to own high-stakes opportunities end to end
Partner deeply with engineering leads to ensure platform solutions are robust, scalable, and seamlessly integrated into developer workflows
Broker across the seam with central tech team partners, representing VALORANT's needs into shared platforms and negotiating what's owned where
Translate empathy for internal developers into infrastructure and tooling that solves genuine pain points; champion data-informed decisions
Champion AI-augmented ways of working: bring agentic tooling into the PM craft to compress cycle time and model what modern product management looks like for Foundations

8+ years of relevant experience in Technical Product Management or a related engineering/technical field
Familiarity with the game development lifecycle: engines, art/build toolchains, live-ops workflows
Proven ability to operate at a Principal level, navigating organizational complexity to drive outcomes without direct authority
Strong technical background (CS degree or equivalent experience) sufficient to credibly debate tradeoffs with engineering leads
Experience translating open-ended or ambiguous technical capabilities into concrete product roadmaps with defined milestones and success metrics
Track record owning platform, developer-tools, or systems products with internal customers
Experience integrating agentic AI tooling into the product-management craft, using agents to shorten the loop from insight to execution