Senior Program Manager, Blizzard Global Insights | Irvine, CA

Team Name:

Global Insights

Job Title:

Senior Program Manager, Blizzard Global Insights | Irvine, CA

Requisition ID:

R026697

Job Description:

Blizzard’s Global Insights organization is comprised of skilled engineers and analysts who work hand in hand with game designers, commercial strategy, and business operations teams across the company. By delivering in-depth analyses, self-service solutions, real-time recommendation systems, and other unique data products, the Global Insights team is uniquely capable of empowering our partners across Blizzard. We pride ourselves on our ability to add value with a combination of data analytics expertise, business acumen, and genuine passion for Blizzard products and culture! 

We are looking for a driven Senior Program Manager: an individual who possesses a wide knowledge of program, product, and project management styles and processes. You should understand analytical and infrastructure technologies, have superb communication and relationship building skills, and be able to adapt to shifting priorities. Our unique blend of challenges, opportunities, environments, and people all help make Blizzard a studio worthy of your career.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position based on site at our Irvine, CA campus, with some work on-site and some work-from-home.

Respionsibilities

• Develop and own roadmaps by defining clear and concise focus areas, identify the desired outcomes, and define the KPIs to achieve those goals. Anticipate and make tradeoffs to balance business needs against technical constraints.
• Partner with internal teams to develop a deep understanding of strategic plans, identify business opportunities, and drive data product initiatives to deliver a measurable impact to our games and players.
• Display a proficiency with project management software to illustrate prioritization among portfolios, individual projects, and operational tasks to plan out milestones, schedules, and resources.
• Facilitate and create appropriate project documentation, communicate status updates, drive decisions, and identify & eliminate risks and blockers.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with resources, partners, colleagues, and leaders with fierce accountability for delivering on commitments.
• Model self-awareness in personal interactions and read both verbal and non-verbal signs to influence without direct authority.
• Advocate data products to varied audiences including upstream and downstream project teams, senior leadership, and game development team stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in program management, product management, project management, or software engineering.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, collaboration, and organizational abilities.
• Strong analytical skills, with a focus on data-driven decision making.
• Passion for gaming industry and community.
• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, business management, or other equivalent experience.

Pluses

• MBA or other advanced quantitative degree.
• Experience with AB testing. Including designing experiments, implementing tests, analyzing results, and iterating based on findings.
• Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence.

Your Platform
Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. 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. 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™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! 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. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristic

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• 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;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $92,920.00 - $171,814.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.