Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience.

Beenox is a video game development studio created in 2000. Located in beautiful Quebec City, Canada, Beenox is a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Publishing Inc., one of the world’s top game developers. The studio is proud to contribute to the development of the Call of Duty video game franchise. Beenox has also contributed to the resounding success of the Skylanders, Spider-Man, and Guitar Hero franchises.

As members of the Beenox family, we feel as if we’re part of a group of like-minded people who are great to work with. Our studio is a real open world where it’s easy to have discussions with everyone, including our studio co-heads. Here everyone brings their own unique touch to projects that showcase their talent on a global stage.

You could say that video games are in our blood!

Your Mission

The HR Business Partner for Beenox significantly contributes to the studio’s objectives by providing tactical and strategic solutions on critical talent, overall workforce effectiveness, and enabling organizational capabilities that directly support studio objectives. The HRBP plays a key role in driving company growth, revenue, and creativity by fostering best-in-class development teams that create value for Beenox and Activision.

This position is a critical member of the Beenox leadership team.

The HR Business Partner will partner with centralized teams to carry out the following responsibilities in: talent attraction, retention, sourcing/recruiting, succession, pipeline planning, total rewards management, productivity, employee relations; policy interpretation and application.

Additional responsibilities include organizational design, effectiveness; staffing models, talent capabilities, career progression initiatives, and coaching and training. This position requires an experienced, data-driven, analytical, collaborative and influential HR Business Partner who can work effectively across a highly matrixed environment.

Key Accountabilities

Provide day-to-day coaching to leadership on a variety of actions to enable them to grow and perform at their best
Deliver a human capital plan driven by the annual and long-term planning, translating business requirements into effective and modern people initiatives
Support the studio expansion and drive various change management, ensuring that organization changes are well planned and thoughtfully implemented
Direct and influence managers and leaders ensuring best outcome on employment matters
Coach leaders and drive accountability supporting the annual HR cycle to facilitate value-added delivery, including workforce and talent planning, performance management, and total rewards
Analyze, report and use predictive people analytics as evidential reasoning to continuously improve the talent KPIs
Identify levers and develop strategies that measurably improve engagement and retention (e.g., talent assessments, engagement surveys, exit surveys)
Develop and maintain strong networks and relations (informal and formal) with employee resource groups, external partners, and leading industry and stakeholder communities
Actively participate in annual budget planning/staffing forecasting process

Player Profile

8+ years of progressive experience in all aspects of Human Resources with prior HR experience in the tech and entertainment space
Organization design and development leadership, including strong change management, for a complex and growing business organization
Experience assessing leadership and organizational talent; identifying talent gaps and successfully implementing initiatives to address gaps
Strong executive presence and proven experience directly supporting senior leaders, influencing leaders to make better people decisions.
Comfortable using facts and data to build people-centric business cases; for example, use of staffing models and other analytical tools
Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, high EQ, passion, and strong critical thinking skills with a willingness to take reasonable risk and challenge the status quo
Exceptional project and process management skills with a demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced, complex, dynamic business environment
Highest level of integrity with a proven ability to gain trust from all levels of the organization
Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion

Year One Success

Define and manage strategic people plans to achieve short-term business and studio goals such as 2021-2022 growth plans for the Beenox Call of Duty team
Act as change agent and key point of contact for the US based centers of excellence (benefits, HR tech, etc.) bringing the local perspective and supporting the HR transformation in areas such as benefits and time tracking
Lead implementation of employee life cycle processes, ensuring successful identification and retention of key talent
Analyze and understand engagement and retention drivers, work with studio leadership, and champion key strategic initiatives that will most impact the studio’s value proposition to its target talent

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), 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 innovate 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.

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.