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Associate Technical Project Manager
2 years ago
Job Title:
Associate Technical Project ManagerRequisition ID:
R010134Job Description:
Job Title: Associate Technical Project Manager
Reporting To: Senior Technical Project Manager, Business Analytics
Department: Global Analytics
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Your Mission
The Business Analytics Assoc. Tech Project Manager will be responsible for supporting the entire Global Analytics teams from an operational standpoint. Tasks included submitting and tracking invoices and payments, working with the legal team for SOW validation and supporting the analytics teams on project scheduling & deliverables.
Candidates must possess a tenacious apatite to be productive and solve problems as well as motivate others to that end, have a great work ethic, and be eager to learn. The right candidate will embody and model positive, and enthusiastic Activision and Global Analytics cultural values and associated behaviors: Selflessness, respect & understanding, courageous & forthright, impact & solution catalysts, passionate & positive attitude .
Key responsibilities
They will be producing the requests and project/deliverables for the Descriptive Analytics Teams, who perform the actual logic building, reporting and analytics.
- Engage with analysts (including off-shore), managers, partners, stakeholders, vendors and leadership on a daily basis to report progress, drive productivity, deliver on expectations, remove blockers and escalate issues
- Submitting, tracking and close invoices and payments, work with the legal team for SOW / MSA validation
- Supporting the analytics teams on project scheduling & deliverables
- Develop and secure the content for analytics newsletter
- Ensure request / project delivery, review and approval of analytic, business and technical requirements
- Source, and help drive collaboration and participation across various group activities
- Collaborate and build relationships with other departments in the Activision Publishing Analytics organization enabling project deliveries
Player Profile
- Professional Project Management / coordination work and a Bachelor’s Degree. PMP a plus.
- 2+ years of project management / coordination experience
- Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools: including Agile, Kanban, SCRUM, traditional waterfall, Jira and Confluence.
- Driven, proactive, self-starter and quick learner. Never has to be asked to optimize productivity or solve a problem.
- Strong organizational skills with strong attention to detail and a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
- Demonstrates high degree of proactivity
- Strong communicator - clearly articulate messages and context to a variety of audiences
- Good networking and influence skills to move people at all levels in an organization toward a common goal
- Ability to build relationships with partners, peers and stakeholders motivating others align and drive towards best practices and objective decision making
- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
- Ability to get quickly up to speed on company culture, sentiments, and context
- Embodies and models our cultural values and associated behaviors: Selflessness, respect & understanding, courageous & forthright, impact & solution catalysts, passionate & positive attitudes
- Relevant software skills (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint)
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
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.
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