Producer, Creative - Unannounced Game (Finance)

Team Name:
Unannounced Project

Job Title:
Producer, Creative - Unannounced Game

Requisition ID:
R025428

Job Description:

At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic characters that are beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations - only made possible by building a work environment that cultivates the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people.

As a Creative Producer, you will be a driving force in the conception and construction of the creative vision for a new, unannounced Blizzard game. You will partner with the project's most senior creative and design leaders to drive creative questions from creative brief to product backlog. You will act as an ambassador for the creative process to all execution teams on the project, ensuring all teams are executing against a single, unified vision.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Schedule and facilitate a series of production rituals across the game team's creative and design leaders to achieve alignment on the creative vision for the project.

• Build and own a rigorous production pipeline for creative brief authoring and review.

• Drive consistent engagement with key stakeholders in design, technology, art, and production to ensure the product vision is translated into a refined product backlog.

• Build and manage a process to ingest internal feedback and ideas into the creative decision-making pipeline.

• Proactively identify gaps, roadblocks, and bottlenecks that may prevent the team from achieving their goals in a timely manner.

• Exemplify reliability, accountability, and professionalism in all work-related interactions.

Experience

• 2+ years of AAA game development experience in a production role.

• Must have shipped at least one AAA game as an associate producer, producer, or creative role.

• Experience supporting product teams to deliver in-game gameplay and/or content at AAA scale and quality.

• Experience working with different project management methodologies (i.e. Sprint, Agile, Kanban).

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong prioritization skills, both for your own work and for the team.

• Passion for bringing structure, consistency, and clarity to areas of ambiguity.

• Experience with the authoring and/or review of creative briefs and/or design specs.

• Strong product approach, passionate about delivering an extraordinary experience to our players.

• Ability to work under stress and help your team members to navigate various challenges and achieve positive results.

• Persistent self-motivation, self-organization, optimism, and initiative.

• Calm and deliberate within a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Experience using Miro, Excel, JIRA, and Confluence.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry's most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., 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.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

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/ .

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $29.81 - $55.14 Hourly. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.