Director of Product

RTS is an enthusiast culture company that builds at the intersection of gaming, creators, and brands. From global live events to bespoke branded content, we exist to create meaningful connections between fans and the worlds they love. Our team brings deep expertise across partnership sales and marketing, talent management, event production, media, community building, and IP development.

For more than 20 years, the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) has produced the largest and longest-running fighting game tournament conventions in the world. Our events are gathering points where players, fans, publishers, developers, creators, and brands come together to celebrate fighting games and the communities that love them.

Beyond our flagship live events, Evo continues to expand how we create, celebrate, and grow fighting game fandom around the world.

We’re looking for a Director of Product, Evo to lead the vision, development, and continued evolution of Evo’s live event and consumer products.

This person will define what we build, why we build it, and how Evo brings its tournaments, programming, and fan experiences to life around the world. You will own the end-to-end development of select Evo products, from tournament formats and on-site attractions to new events, specialty programming, and other major initiatives that will help shape Evo’s future.

You will take products from initial concept through launch, defining the audience, goals, scope, requirements, budget, and measures of success. You will work closely with Event Operations, Production, Broadcast, Marketing, Partnerships, and Business Development to ensure each product can be delivered successfully and remains true to Evo’s community and brand.

This is a senior leadership role within Evo. In addition to leading individual products, you will help shape Evo’s broader product portfolio, support decisions about global expansion and future growth, develop strong leaders and teams, and take on broader leadership responsibilities across the business when needed.

The right person combines product strategy, live event experience, audience empathy, and strong business judgment. They understand how to translate fighting game culture and broader gaming fandom into competitive and entertainment products that can grow without losing what makes Evo special.

At our size, this is a hands-on leadership role. You should be comfortable moving between long-term product planning, experience design, documentation, budget decisions, team leadership, cross-functional coordination, and on-site execution.

You will report to Evo’s General Manager.

• Own the vision, priorities, plans, and measures of success for major Evo products, including live events, tournament experiences, on-site attractions, and specialty programming.
• Write clear product and event briefs that define experience goals, spatial concepts, stage requirements, tournament parameters, and what each team is expected to deliver.
• Make product tradeoffs across features, formats, and investments using audience data, player sentiment, endemic impact, business value, timing, complexity, and cost.
• Define ticket types, experience packages, benefits, and attendee value in partnership with Event Operations, Marketing, Finance, and other relevant teams.
• Work with the General Manager and company leadership to set product priorities and evaluate new formats, events, and markets.

• Lead the development of flagship event features and experiential zones, including museum exhibits, indie developer showcases, vendor villages, artist alleys, community meetups, and other on-site attractions.
• Define tournament…