Matthew Adkins Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

As an experienced product manager in Riot's R&D Office, I led a team through the prototype phase and into pre-production.-Partnered with Valorant's Game Director to develop a new pitch that would be exciting for Riot to pursue, ultimately receiving approval from the head of R&D and the EP of Valorant.-Retained talent from a previous project, and worked with them to hire up to 20 developers and build a successful prototype of the pitch.-Built out a highly capable leadership bench to develop the project.-Developed ship strategy, prototype proof strategy, initial audience personas, and organizational scaling strategy in collaboration with the design lead, game director and operations director.Currently: Hiring to scale our organization after receiving approval for pre-production work to begin, developing market strategy and working on proving out our pre-production innovations.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Joined Riot's R&D Office, a group focused on incubating high potential, high player impact games.In this role:-Pitched early R&D concepts that Riot eventually pursued and shipped-Pivoted an early R&D pitch to a more player-focused approach-Built a team of 9 to prototype an early R&D pitch and bring it to the pre-production gate-Made the difficult call to shut down the project. In doing so, managed to retain the entire team into a new pitch and project.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Worked as a product manager focused on internal customers, and delivering a world-class suite of technology services that Rioters can use to be more effective in their role.In this role:-Managed an initiative (team of teams) of 40 responsible for all of Riot's internal tooling, including: JIRA, Slack, ServiceNow, G Suite, Favro, as well as internally built tools including the company directory, intranet, HR tooling, and finance tooling.-Set vision for this team, including prioritizing where we could have the most impact for Rioters in increasing productivity.-Rebuilt the intranet-Consolidated and reset dozens of productivity applications (commerical and proprietary) to a concise suite-Re-engineered the onboarding process for new Rioters-Developed a training program for Rioters to understand the fundamentals of League of Legends-Technical Lead for the company's internal hackathon (Thunderdome)

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Built out a team to manage a portion of Riot's internal tools, focused on employee productivity.In this role:-Hired and managed a team of 8 responsible for handling a variety of the internal tools of the company, including Slack, ServiceNow, Active Directory, and Google.-Drove major projects including consolidating communication tools to reduce costs, and supported building out Riot's new campus. -Was responsible for SCCM buildout and deployment at new Riot HQ.Continued as a consultant for executives on major internal technology decisions.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Supported Riot as it scaled into a world-class, player focused organization.In this role:-Was a leader in the support desk in delivering world class service to a company that scaled from 700-1800 employees.-Pioneered major technology adoption, including ServiceNow, Slack, and the Google Suite.-Managed executive backups.-Led the support desk in services rendered to the company.-Personal support to the founders, on technology problems - Everything from Infosec, to Troubleshooting, to consulting on future buildouts.