[Hiring] Senior Technical Program Manager @Activision Blizzard, Inc.

Role Description

Activision Blizzard, Inc. is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Program Manager to work with our IT Enterprise Applications team to define and achieve both global Activision, Blizzard, King priorities as well as Activision specific priorities. This individual will support key central initiatives and will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of products and/or programs; including concept inception, delivery, adoption, and operational support.

• Contribute to the product strategy and roadmap for the portfolio of applications
• Identify the order of importance and urgency among individual projects, portfolios and operational tasks to plan achievements, schedules and resources
• Ensure that projects goals, objectives, achievements and results are achieved on schedule and within budget
• Develop status reporting and communicate effectively and proactively to all levels of the organization regarding status, schedules, risks, issues, etc.
• Collaborate with Corporate Communications team to ensure newsletters and company communications are aligned with corporate standards
• Proactively identify and communicate risks or issues that might impede assigned projects, and develop mitigation plans or solutions to resolve
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key executives, senior leaders, stakeholders, and team resources throughout the Activision Blizzard organization to achieve project objectives and deliverables
• Define and manage a project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement standard methodologies for Agile Project Management
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and application owners to develop test management plans; test scenarios, defect capturing, test status reporting, and approvals
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and application owners to develop change management plans and track change management activities as part of an overall project plan
• Contribute to a team environment that encourages collaboration, ongoing feedback, and participation throughout the Corporate and Enterprise Applications PMO teams

Qualifications

• A minimum of 2-4 years of experience as a program manager, product manager, or project manager managing application programs or projects
• Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-organizational, complex enterprise application programs or projects applying internal and vendor resources
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills; comfortable presenting and communicating to large groups and across all levels of the organization in an effective, situationally appropriate, clear, and high quality manner
• Ability to work independently and deliver results with little supervision
• Self-motivated with strong initiative, ability to work in a dynamic work environment
• Ability to lead and influence without explicit authority
• Diligent, problem solver with excellent organization skills
• Experience implementing, championing, and working with Agile development methodologies
• Experience with vendor and contract management process
• Knowledge of ERP, HCM, EPM systems and technologies
• Knowledge of Various Database and Data Analytics tools and technologies

Requirements

• Passion for the gaming industry
• Prior experience as a scrum master or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools like Jira and Confluence for task tracking and collaboration
• Well-versed and comfortable in IT infrastructure (data centers, networking, cloud, storage platforms, etc.)
• Excellent grasp of various program and project management methodologies (e.g. Portfolio Management, Sprinting and Backlog Grooming)
• Experience with Smartsheet for project management
• Experience with Waterfall project management methodology

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
• 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