Senior Level Head of Publishing Jobs
Senior level head of publishing jobs put experienced professionals in charge of editorial strategy, content operations, and the teams and workflows that bring publications to life at scale. Roles are concentrated in Technology & Software, with a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid settings, and employers like Riot Games and Riot Games hiring at this level now.
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INTRODUCTION
As the Publishing Product Management Lead, Americas, you will play a critical role in shaping strategy across the Americas during a formative stage of a new product’s lifecycle. Reporting to the GM of the Americas and working closely with global leads and the development team, you will drive subregional strategies aligned with broader regional and global objectives. Your deep understanding of market trends, player behavior, and cultural nuances across the Americas will be critical as you work to deliver exceptional value to players while ensuring optimal operational efficiency and performance. You will play a key role in advocating for the region’s needs in global decision-making processes and ensuring that product ecosystems and community involvement thrive across the Americas. This role is anchored in strong North America market expertise, while also requiring the cultural fluency and operational judgment to support Latin America and Brazil through effective local partnerships and vendors. In this role, you’ll also oversee budgeting and resource allocation to support the successful execution of regional goals. Above all, you will demonstrate a relentless, entrepreneurial drive to always be delivering for players.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and execute Americas regional strategies for various projects, ensuring alignment with global priorities and focusing on product ecosystems, community engagement, and cultural and market trends across North America, with informed support for Latin America and Brazil.
- Act as the regional expert on specific target audiences, sharing insights to product and brand teams in order to influence global publishing plans and the product itself.
- Lead cross-functional workstreams across product, publishing, brand, platform, and comms, operating with a startup mindset and bias toward action.
- Oversee subregional budgets, ensuring effective resource allocation and tracking performance to optimize results.
- Recommend and align country-based outcomes linked to regional key results, set performance indicators, and track publishing efforts' performance.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, serving as a core voice for Americas players throughout Riot and ensuring regional needs are prioritized in global decision-making.
- Identify risks in regional projects and provide cultural and market expertise while also ensuring alignment with global strategies.
- Scale impact through partners, including a broad ecosystem of agencies, vendors, first parties, and external partners, ensuring strong creative quality and operational execution.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, or comparable professional experience.
- 8+ years of experience in game publishing, entertainment, sports, or non-traditional media brands, with a track record of shaping regional strategies and delivering outcomes.
- Proven experience leading regional publishing or marketing strategy across multiple markets in the Americas, with deep expertise in North America strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of cultural and consumer dynamics across the Americas, including the ability to partner effectively with vendors and external stakeholders to support Latin America and Brazil.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with comfort operating in ambiguity and early-stage product environments.
- Clear, confident communicator with experience representing regional perspectives to senior global leadership.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Multilingual capabilities relevant to the region, especially Spanish and/or Portuguese, enhancing communication with local stakeholders, partners, and vendors.
- Demonstrated success delivering multiplatform strategies, including PC and first party console ecosystems.
- Extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment and working with teams across various geographies.
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!
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 every day. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.
DUTIES
Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:
- Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
- Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
- Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
- Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters
These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.
COMPENSATION
Base salary range between $185,200.00 - $258,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.
INTRODUCTION
As the Publishing Product Management Lead, Americas, you will play a critical role in shaping strategy across the Americas during a formative stage of a new product’s lifecycle. Reporting to the GM of the Americas and working closely with global leads and the development team, you will drive subregional strategies aligned with broader regional and global objectives. Your deep understanding of market trends, player behavior, and cultural nuances across the Americas will be critical as you work to deliver exceptional value to players while ensuring optimal operational efficiency and performance. You will play a key role in advocating for the region’s needs in global decision-making processes and ensuring that product ecosystems and community involvement thrive across the Americas. This role is anchored in strong North America market expertise, while also requiring the cultural fluency and operational judgment to support Latin America and Brazil through effective local partnerships and vendors. In this role, you’ll also oversee budgeting and resource allocation to support the successful execution of regional goals. Above all, you will demonstrate a relentless, entrepreneurial drive to always be delivering for players.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and execute Americas regional strategies for various projects, ensuring alignment with global priorities and focusing on product ecosystems, community engagement, and cultural and market trends across North America, with informed support for Latin America and Brazil.
- Act as the regional expert on specific target audiences, sharing insights to product and brand teams in order to influence global publishing plans and the product itself.
- Lead cross-functional workstreams across product, publishing, brand, platform, and comms, operating with a startup mindset and bias toward action.
- Oversee subregional budgets, ensuring effective resource allocation and tracking performance to optimize results.
- Recommend and align country-based outcomes linked to regional key results, set performance indicators, and track publishing efforts' performance.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, serving as a core voice for Americas players throughout Riot and ensuring regional needs are prioritized in global decision-making.
- Identify risks in regional projects and provide cultural and market expertise while also ensuring alignment with global strategies.
- Scale impact through partners, including a broad ecosystem of agencies, vendors, first parties, and external partners, ensuring strong creative quality and operational execution.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, or comparable professional experience.
- 8+ years of experience in game publishing, entertainment, sports, or non-traditional media brands, with a track record of shaping regional strategies and delivering outcomes.
- Proven experience leading regional publishing or marketing strategy across multiple markets in the Americas, with deep expertise in North America strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of cultural and consumer dynamics across the Americas, including the ability to partner effectively with vendors and external stakeholders to support Latin America and Brazil.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with comfort operating in ambiguity and early-stage product environments.
- Clear, confident communicator with experience representing regional perspectives to senior global leadership.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Multilingual capabilities relevant to the region, especially Spanish and/or Portuguese, enhancing communication with local stakeholders, partners, and vendors.
- Demonstrated success delivering multiplatform strategies, including PC and first party console ecosystems.
- Extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment and working with teams across various geographies.
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!
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 every day. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.
DUTIES
Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:
- Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
- Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
- Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
- Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters
These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.
COMPENSATION
Base salary range between $185,200.00 - $258,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.
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Senior Level Head of Publishing Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level head of publishing job?
Employers at this level want candidates who have already led editorial teams, owned publication roadmaps, and driven measurable outcomes like audience growth or revenue. A portfolio that shows strategic decision-making, cross-functional leadership, and experience managing editors or producers carries more weight than credentials alone. Demonstrating that you have shaped a publication's direction, not just executed it, is what sets strong candidates apart.
Which companies hire senior level head of publishings?
Companies hiring senior level head of publishings right now include Riot Games and Riot Games, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level comes from media groups, enterprise content organizations, education publishers, and brands with large-scale content operations that need experienced leadership to run them.
Are there remote senior level head of publishing jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by employer and sector. About 0% of senior level head of publishing openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the shift toward distributed editorial leadership across media, digital publishing, and corporate content teams. On-site roles remain common at organizations where close collaboration with production, design, or sales teams is central to the work.
What makes a head of publishing role senior level?
Senior level head of publishing roles are defined by scope, ownership, and leadership depth. You are setting editorial and publishing strategy rather than following one, managing team leads or department heads rather than individual contributors, and accountable for publication performance as a business outcome. These roles also typically require navigating stakeholder relationships across editorial, marketing, legal, and executive functions at the same time.
Which industries hire the most senior level head of publishings?
Senior Level head of publishing roles concentrate in Technology & Software, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring because they depend on sustained, high-volume content output and need experienced leaders who can maintain editorial standards, build publishing infrastructure, and align content operations with broader organizational goals.