Principal, Growth Lead

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$188K/yr – $262K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize growth marketing initiatives across Lifecycle Marketing, Performance Marketing, and paid channels to drive player acquisition, engagement, and retention.

  • Translate objectives into channel-specific growth strategies and briefs across multiple teams.
  • Define measurement, run experiments, and synthesize insights to improve publishing strategies.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Brand Marketing and game publishing teams to develop growth marketing strategies that extend and amplify integrated marketing campaigns.
  • Identify underserved or strategically important player audiences and develop targeted approaches to acquire, engage, retain, and reactivate those players throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Build audience strategies grounded in player insights, behavioral data, experimentation, and market understanding, especially in spaces where existing research is limited or incomplete.
  • Translate campaign objectives into channel-specific growth strategies and strategic briefs across Lifecycle Marketing, Performance Marketing, Paid Media, Platform Marketing, and other growth channels.
  • Lead cross-functional planning between Game Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, Paid Media, CRM, Creative, Analytics, Data Science, and external partners to deliver coordinated growth campaigns.
  • Partner with creative teams to scope, brief, review, and deliver marketing assets optimized for growth channels while maintaining alignment with the game's broader marketing strategy.
  • Collaborate with external platform partners and managed-service media partners to identify incremental opportunities and execute high-impact campaigns.
  • Develop and optimize personalized player experiences across owned channels including email, push notifications, websites, search experiences, app stores, and future engagement surfaces.
  • Understand the capabilities and constraints of Riot's marketing technology ecosystem and design executable strategies that maximize available tooling while identifying opportunities for future capability investment.
  • Define measurement approaches, monitor campaign performance, synthesize learnings, and deliver actionable recommendations that improve future publishing strategies.

Requirements

  • 8-12+ years of experience in Growth Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, Performance Marketing, CRM, or related marketing strategy roles.
  • Demonstrated expertise developing data-informed marketing strategies that drive measurable player or customer growth.
  • Strong understanding of audience segmentation, customer lifecycle management, personalization, experimentation, and marketing analytics.
  • Expertise partnering across creative, product, analytics, media, engineering, and operations teams to deliver integrated marketing programs.
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable strategies.
  • Expertise in working with modern marketing technology platforms, CRM systems, experimentation frameworks, or advertising ecosystems.
  • Expert strategic communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
  • Expertise balancing long-term strategic thinking with tactical execution in fast-moving environments.
  • Expertise supporting or collaborating within entertainment, sports, or culture-driven ecosystems.
  • P passion for games and a deep curiosity about player behavior, motivations, and evolving audience needs.

Benefits

  • Our Perks: Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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. At Riot Games, we put players first . That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

Riot Games

4.2 Glassdoor

Since 2006, Riot Games has stayed committed to changing the way video games are developed, published, and supported for players. From our first title, League of Legends, to 2020’s VALORANT; we have strived to evolve the community with growth in Esports, and expansion from games into entertainment. Players are the foundation of Riot's community and because of them, we’re able to reach new heights.Founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, Riot is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has 4,500+ Rioters in 20+ offices worldwide. Riot has been featured on numerous lists including Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” “25 Best Companies to Work in Technology,” “100 Best Workplaces for Millennials,” and “50 Best Workplaces for Flexibility.”Riot Games recruiters will never ask for money or request sensitive information, and they'll always reach out from an @riotgames.com email address. You can learn more about Riot’s interview process here: https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/interviewing-at-riot/interview-process

Founded in 2006
Los Angeles, California, USA
7.8K employees (2,633 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
70% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$188K/yr – $262K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$21M
Last Raise
$6M
Series Unknown, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2018
    Venture Round • $6M
  • Nov 2016
    Convertible Note
  • Sep 2009
    Series B • $8M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
36.4M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
76.4%
Direct
19.3%
Referral
2.3%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.8K

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