Product Management at Riot Games | Paul Belezza

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?
Watch and subscribe now!
Also check out more game development content at: gamemakers.com
For another great PM video interview check out this one with NBCUniversal's Victor Wang: • Mobile Game Product Ma...

[@gabe_lamas_art]

I once had the opportunity to meet Paul face-to-face (even got a business card) at GDC 2011 when they were holding the conferences in Austin, TX. That moment is a time that I will always remember as a game artist, especially since I was so green and still in school. So glad I got to meet him!

[@GameMakersDev]

Paul is a really, really good dude. Glad you got to meet him. And the man knows tacos like nobody's business.

[@KevMeUpFan]

This was great. Thanks for posting the times as well for individual questions.

[@GameMakersDev]

Appreciate the comment! Hope you liked it.

[@siddheshnarvekar5082]

I wish my right ear enjoy this video as left one did 🙄

[@GameMakersDev]

OMG I screwed this up! Thanks for letting me know. Fixing this moving forward!!!

[@jonasklar]

@@GameMakersDev the content has been great but pay attention to the sound and quality of the recordings.. it will help your channel grow a lot more.

[@jonasklar]

@@GameMakersDev and for interviews like these it would be great to have you and your interview subject both in frame at the same time from time to time having a conversation.. more engaging that one person in frame always.

[@GameMakersDev]

Yeah I've been struggling from the beginning with audio quality in particular. Slowly getting better.

[@GameMakersDev]

Ok good feedback. We'll try that as well.

[@necrobooder]

I'm loving this videos Joseph. I would love to see the production values increased a bit (audio is mono in this vid, and even then sound could be improved overall). I'd love to hear some of your personal experiences too!

[@GameMakersDev]

Hey necrobooder! 100% on the audio. I've heard this so many times and I'm super disappointed in dropping the ball. Unfortunately, I still have a backlog of about 15-20 videos with hosed audio, BUT my future videos should have good audio. I got better equipment and slowly have learned how to use it. As for personal experiences, OK, i'll think about more content on the personal side and see what we can do!!!

[@mikedoom810]

PAUL RULES!

[@GameMakersDev]

He is the absolute best!