Job Description
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Role Description
The Data Analytics Team is adding a dedicated Sr. Technical Project Manager! This role will act as a key end-to-end driver, facilitator, and champion for all team projects, initiatives, and analytic results being driven by both Activision Publishing and Activision Game Studios, ensuring tasks are prioritized, implemented, and delivered on time.
The Role:
- Drive end-to-end project/request delivery management, process management, identifying and solving risks, and dependencies, analytic product management, advocating and championing best-in-class project management fundamentals
- Drive Jira methodologies while improving team consensus to prioritize team efficiency
- Scrum master: proactively optimize and align sprints and retros across 3 analytic teams, with current goals of Data Analytics, to ensure tracking and specification on all sprint tasks.
- Able to consistently drive work related to a feature/request from inception to integration
- Support multiple incoming requests from all 4 major Call Of Duty Game studios- Finance, Product Management, Central Design, and other internal teams
- Drive Jira methodologies while improving team consensus to prioritize team efficiency
- Scrum master: proactively optimize and align sprints and retros across 3 analytic teams, with current goals of Data Analytics, to ensure tracking and specification on all sprint tasks.
- Able to consistently drive work related to a feature/request from inception to integration
- Support multiple incoming requests from all 4 major Call Of Duty Game studios- Finance, Product Management, Central Design, and other internal teams
- Champion and support transparency, ownership, resourcing, and accountability with studio and publishing partners, Data Analytics Leads, and leadership through clear and concise communications
- Provide timely followups, breakdowns, and in-progress work and ensure that items meet the goals of our stakeholders
- Ensure that roadmaps of results are generated, maintained and triaged as initiatives progress
- Proactively identify key studio drivers as POCs for Data Analytics to ensure forward momentum on initiatives flagged as critical priorities
- Provide timely followups, breakdowns, and in-progress work and ensure that items meet the goals of our stakeholders
- Ensure that roadmaps of results are generated, maintained and triaged as initiatives progress
- Proactively identify key studio drivers as POCs for Data Analytics to ensure forward momentum on initiatives flagged as critical priorities
- Generate and implement solutions for team members and customers as the needs of initiatives evolve over time
- Identify & develop risk mitigation plans in partnership with customers, ICs, and leadership
- Coordination with team members on current prioritized franchise areas of interest
- Identify & develop risk mitigation plans in partnership with customers, ICs, and leadership
- Coordination with team members on current prioritized franchise areas of interest
- Work with Team Leads to determine MVPs on Jira tickets to ensure that a balance is found between speed to insights and available resources. Establish and maintain documentation repositories to support ongoing projects.
- Ensure analyses are stored promptly post-completion in a shared repository (Jira/Confluence/Sharepoint)
- Generate documentation on workflow processes for supported teams
- Ensure analyses are stored promptly post-completion in a shared repository (Jira/Confluence/Sharepoint)
- Generate documentation on workflow processes for supported teams
- Drive Jira methodologies while improving team consensus to prioritize team efficiency
- Scrum master: proactively optimize and align sprints and retros across 3 analytic teams, with current goals of Data Analytics, to ensure tracking and specification on all sprint tasks.
- Able to consistently drive work related to a feature/request from inception to integration
- Support multiple incoming requests from all 4 major Call Of Duty Game studios- Finance, Product Management, Central Design, and other internal teams
- Provide timely followups, breakdowns, and in-progress work and ensure that items meet the goals of our stakeholders
- Ensure that roadmaps of results are generated, maintained and triaged as initiatives progress
- Proactively identify key studio drivers as POCs for Data Analytics to ensure forward momentum on initiatives flagged as critical priorities
- Identify & develop risk mitigation plans in partnership with customers, ICs, and leadership
- Coordination with team members on current prioritized franchise areas of interest
- Ensure analyses are stored promptly post-completion in a shared repository (Jira/Confluence/Sharepoint)
- Generate documentation on workflow processes for supported teams
Qualifications:
Experience Required:
- 5+ years of technical project management experience in gaming, technology, analytics, engineering, digital, or other technical teams
- PMP / PMI certification or similar
Skills Required:
- Strong Experience with Agile/SCRUM and/or traditional waterfall methodologies
- Excellent understanding of JIRA & Confluence or other project management tracking tools
- Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills
- Excellent project management skills including prioritization, scheduling, and documentation
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with Databricks & Tableau
- Experience with full game lifecycle (Alpha to Release)
Your Platform
We’re headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many fields of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivaled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.
Our World
At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We’re driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our “press start” is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences.
We’re not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we’re forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate, creative, and diverse teams within our organization.
We’re in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater — this could be your opportunity to level up.
Ready to Activate Your Future?
Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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/ .
How to Apply
Apply via: https://careers.activision.com/job/ACPUUSR023279EXTERNAL/Senior-Technical-Project-Manager