Activision Blizzard

Activision Blizzard

Senior Technical Program Manager - Central Technology (Temporary)

Santa Monica · Senior · Part-time

Sponsorship not specified$95k-$175kDetected 20 days ago
Project ManagementJiraConfluenceSystems EngineeringResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationPublic SpeakingSharePoint

About the role

  • All the while, we also serve as the bridge to the publishing organization to align game technical development with 1st party management, analytics, product management, marketing, and public relations.
  • Hybrid: This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, and the home studio for this role is Santa Monica, CA.

Responsibilities

  • Support the creation, development, and execution of production initiatives, projects, pathways, and overall plan; continue to provide supervision and support through full operations life-cycle
  • Create a culture that promotes collaboration, continuous feedback, support and empowerment. Set clear goals for the team and hold employees accountable for deliverables; recognize and reward employees for strong performance
  • Engage in various strategic technology planning and analytics to develop key processes, procedures, and recommendations across Activision and its studios
  • Liaison with first party as well as internal teams to track efforts, perform analysis on data and user experience, and ensure work is moving forward.
  • Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles.
  • Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of technical program management or similar experience.
  • Deep experience with each stage of software development lifecycle, from inception, design and implementation, through to QA and deployment.
  • Experience in practicing agile development practices, and strong working knowledge of a variety of project management techniques.
  • Experience with project management tools such as Atlassian JIRA, Trello, Confluence, MS SharePoint, MS Project, Smartsheet, etc.
  • Knowledge & Skills
  • Must be able to communicate concisely and effectively.
  • Experience in game development or game publishing environments

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with data protection laws and regulatory requirements a plus.

Skills

  • Your Mission
  • Knowledge & Skills - Able to proactively navigate roadblocks with effective solutions, keeping projects moving efficiently.

Compensation

  • In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $94,580.00 - $174,988.00 Annual.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;

Company info

  • Familiarity with working as part of and alongside software engineering teams.

This listing is sourced directly from Activision Blizzard's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.