Job Title: Senior Producer, Mobile Live Ops

Requisition ID: R004089

Job Description:
Job Title: Senior Producer, Mobile Live Ops

Reporting To: Executive Producer, Mobile

Department: Mobile Production

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Your Platform

Founded in 1979, Activision has continuously disrupted the world of entertainment as a leader in the videogame industry. With a history of delivering iconic game changers -- like Pitfall® , Tony Hawk®, Guitar Hero®, Crash Bandicoot™, Skylanders ™ and Call of Duty ® -- our obsession is delighting our players around the globe. Focused and committed to innovation, we consistently deliver the most beloved, engaging and successful entertainment.

And while we have world-class franchises, infrastructure and resources, our success comes from a passionate, talented and diverse team of people producing greatness together. So, if you're interested in our biggest priority, it's our people.

We're currently driving the next era for our company and community by creating amazing experiences for fans and continuing to make Activision an inclusive place where everyone can thrive.

Join us, make history. To learn more, check us out at www.activision.com , https://blog.activision.com or @Activision on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Your Mission

The Senior Producer, Mobile Live Ops is keystone for live operations execution. This entails active involvement through all phases of live ops development including content pre-production and production, and live ops calendar planning, implementation, and analysis. Specific duties are overseeing areas including but not limited to scheduling, QA, budgeting, localizations, legal clearance, and other similar aspects of production. Your undertaking includes:

• Own the Live Ops pipeline and production processes to ensure fun, engaging content and events are delivered to our community smoothly and punctually


• Coordinate and communicate with Live Ops, Product, and Roadmap stakeholders to help execute against product goals with the Live Ops team


• Oversee different aspects of production including localizations, legal clearance, and other production related areas


• Provide ongoing risk assessments to mobile team leadership with respect to weaknesses, bottlenecks, and risks to schedule; help troubleshoot and resolve issues

Player Profile

• 3-5 years of scoping, scheduling, staffing, budget, and project management for Mobile games


• Ability to prepare waterfall, roadmaps, short-to-medium term schedules and planning


• Identify bottlenecks in the project workflow/schedule


• Identify issues, provide options for resolution of owned areas


• Resourceful, steadfast and committed to delivering results


• Proactive & action-oriented; responds quickly to challenges


• Allocates own tasks and responsibilities to ensure deadlines are met


• Understands how to tailor communication style to the audience (internal/external/executive)


• Earns trust & respect of peers; is viewed as a team player


• Good enough isn't; must be a passionate advocate for excellence


• Builds strong relationships across the organization


• Can influence without authority


• Maintains high standards despite pressing deadlines


• Effectively balances competing priorities & spends time on what's most important

The Producer should also demonstrate:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills


• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills


• Strong problem solving skills


• Strong project management skills including organized and focused methods of working and task prioritization


• Ability to self-manage and self-pace


• Ability to adapt to changing situations and development team cultures


• Ability to work under pressure


• Good knowledge of game development methodologies


• Positive attitude and passion for making games


• Commitment to staying current with production methodologies, ideas and processes

Our World

Great Games Start with Great People! This is an exciting time to join us!

Ask anyone who works at Activision, or with Activision, their favorite thing about it, and they'll tell you, it's the people. We have world class brands, infrastructure and resources, but our success doesn't come from assembly lines producing widgets. Our success comes from people producing greatness together. We are nothing without our employee's brilliance. So if you're interested in our biggest priority, it's the people.

Activision is more than just the leading developer and publisher of video games; we are the creators of some of the world's biggest, most ground-breaking titles in the industry. Our portfolio includes Call of Duty® and Crash Bandicoot™.

Activision is a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), headquartered in Santa Monica, California with locations across the globe. Activision Blizzard is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment. A member of the S&P 500 and recognized on the 2018 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Activision Blizzard has operations throughout the world with approximately 10,000 employees and players in 196 countries.

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 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.