Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering - League of Legends

As a Senior Manager, ML Engineering, you will lead the Machine Learning Engineering team responsible for building and operating machine learning systems that power League of Legends. This team delivers both player-facing ML experiences and developer-facing ML tools, enabling in-game and around-game capabilities such as recommendations, player behavior modeling, matchmaking, and experimentation-driven personalization. In this role, you will be accountable for the technical vision, execution, and business impact of ML applications in League of Legends.

You will shape the end-to-end ML engineering strategy, from data and feature pipelines to model development, deployment, evaluation, and operations, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and measurable in production. You will partner with development themes’ product and production leaders to enable the development of League of Legends existing and future player experiences. You will report to the Data Engineering Director of League Insights.

This role is based out of our Los Angeles Headquarters.

Manage a team of highly skilled engineers, driving performance, developing future leaders, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring strong delivery and outcomes. Define, own, and socialize an engineering vision for the organization, working with cross-functional and engineering leaders to create a long-term organizational and staffing plan aligned with technical and product goals. Contribute to all parts of tea