Activision is seeking a high performing Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Applications to join the IT PMO. You will join a team of PM’s focused on delivering epic corporate IT products, tools and experiences. The goal is simple; build and deliver IT experiences that set the bar for innovation, quality and reliability.
The primary function of this role is managing a project portfolio across an assigned corporate IT program area. This includes understanding business priorities, providing strategic guidance, partnering with technical managers to establish roadmaps and assign technical resources, building project plans, managing milestone completion on schedule, communicating status, managing the releases, and working with our internal customers to provide lifetime support of corporate products via feedback loops. Collaboration across Blizzard Entertainment and King will be critical in your success.
Responsibilities
- Mastery of tools and processes available to successfully run a project/event
- Proactive, self-starter, able to independently drive multiple project simultaneously
- Build relationships and influence others to get things done and drive decision making
- Facilitate prioritization discussions and decisions
- Partner engagement: Understands when to engage, who to engage and the appropriate method for the circumstances
- Produce effective results: Ensure project goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables are achieved on schedule
- Act as the central point of contact for all program area questions or issues
- Assume accountability of tracking, monitoring, removing roadblocks and reporting for assigned program area. Delivering high quality service to stakeholders
- Drive service availability: Drive the post incident process
- Actively mentor less senior members of the team
- Planning project milestones/tasks, schedules and resources
- Communicate schedules, updates, status, major decisions, risks and blockers
- Requirements gathering: Includes appropriate stakeholders to properly collect comprehensive requirements
- Facilitate or create appropriate project documentation. Define and socialize standards
- Champion continuous improvement, iteration, and learning
Player Profile
- A minimum of 5 years of experience managing projects
- Expert knowledge of Project Management methodologies
- Strong Leadership
- Able to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous, dynamic work environment
- Ability to travel to Blizzard’s main Irvine Campus a few times a month
- Strong communicator and able to tailor their communication and level of detail to the audience
Pluses
- Mastery of Atlassian product suite (Jira & Confluence)
- Extensive IT program management experience across multiple business units and supporting multiple technologies
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Scrum Master Certification
- MS Project Certification
- A passion for video games
Your Platform
We’re headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines 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 unrivalled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.
Our World
Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), headquartered in Santa Monica, California with locations across the globe, is one of the largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies in the world. Sitting at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment, our employees are some of the best and brightest across engineering, entertainment, media, and technology. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Skylanders®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™, and Bubble Witch™ and our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users across the globe.
A member of the S&P 500 Activision Blizzard is proud to be included as one of FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies To Work For®," "World's Best Employers," as well as "Most Admired Companies." In 2019 we were honored to receive a perfect score on our entry to the Corporate Equality Index as a Best Workplace for LGBTQ professionals and once again made Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies in Gaming.
The video game 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.
Activision Blizzard 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.
