Blizzard Entertainment
Senior Recruiter, Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, California, United States of America · Senior · Part-time
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About the role
- Senior Recruiter - Blizzard Entertainment Your Mission At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share.
- This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position.
- The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.
Responsibilities
- Partner with hiring managers and leadership across game and business teams to develop and execute effective hiring strategies.
- Lead full-cycle recruiting across multiple disciplines, including Art, Design, Engineering, Production, and business functions.
- Manage multiple searches simultaneously, ensuring high-quality candidate experience and timely delivery against hiring goals.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners including sourcing, compensation, HR, and recruiting operations to drive hiring outcomes.
- Build and maintain strong pipelines of talent through proactive outreach, networking, and relationship management.
- Support and mentor others on the team through knowledge sharing, interview best practices, and sourcing strategies.
- Ability to manage multiple requisitions and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- Experience partnering directly with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to influence hiring decisions.
- Strong sourcing capability with a track record of engaging passive talent in competitive markets.
- Ability to operate independently and exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
Nice to have
- Experience recruiting for both game development teams and business functions.
- Experience working in-house at a gaming, entertainment, or tech company.
- Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry's most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards.
- Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
- Our World Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment.
- Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!
- We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment.
- The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve.
Skills
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.
Compensation
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners including sourcing, compensation, HR, and recruiting operations to drive hiring outcomes.
Company info
- We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™.
- We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
- We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
This listing is sourced directly from Blizzard Entertainment's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.