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Chief Talent Officer

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Chief Talent Officer

Position Overview

Activision Blizzard seeks a senior business leader to develop and execute a global talent acquisition strategy that aligns with the company’s growth goals. He/She will be a strategic, fast-paced, and hard-charging yet affable leader who has significant experience with talent acquisition in the technology industry. The ideal executive will:

•Own and manage the end to end talent acquisition lifecycle for the company with a specific focus on executive recruiting.

•Succeed in recruiting, hiring, and retaining top, highly-sought after talent across all functions within the company.

•Implement best in class processes and methodologies that help the organization grow and scale effectively and efficiently.

•Partner with the CHRO to shift and transform an organization, both from a cultural and professional perspective.

•Leverage technology and analytics to create greater efficiency and overall recruiting operations across workforce planning, capacity management, funnel metrics and objective assessments.

•Exceed candidate experience and business expectations.

•Build, engage and develop a world-class talent acquisition team.

•Maintain Activision’s brand as a world class employer that allows the organization to hire top talent.

Professional Skills & Experience

•Talent Acquisition and Leadership: 15+ years of business and talent acquisition leadership, with growing levels of responsibility and achievement, particularly focused in high-growth, large-scale technology organizations.

•Organizational Transformation: Experience in partnering with executive teams and business leaders to shift and transform a company’s organization, culturally and professionally.

•High-growth Environment: Experience working in a global, high-growth, technology organization environment is preferred. Experience working in a public company is ideal. Additional experience working in entertainment technology is ideal.

•Strong Business and Financial Acumen: An understanding of the business and the ability to anticipate the impact of talent on the future success of the company. Demonstrated balance of IQ and EQ as a thought leader and collaborator among a senior management team.

Leadership & Management Characteristics

•Strategic Thinking and Result-Orientation: The Chief Talent Officer will possess superior learning agility and intellectual curiosity with the ability to inspire creative thinking at all levels of the organization. He/she will bring strong operational DNA, with a vision, a plan, and an understanding of what will get results.

•Innovation and Change Management: The Chief Talent Officer will play a critical role in driving HR innovations that will have an impact on culture and people in facilitating and creating a road map for change. He/she will be expected to have guided organizations through aggressive business and headcount ramp-up, while maintaining a culture of innovation and high performance. Managing organic growth while also integrating newly acquired companies will be an important aspect of this position.

•Collaborative Approach: The ideal candidate will be a relationship-builder that works collaboratively at all levels of the organization to enhance effective human capital programs aligned with aggressive business goals. He/she will be working with the executive team to inspire trust and confidence across the organization. He/she will be a strategic partner to all business and functional leaders.

•Team Builder and Inspiring Leader: The company needs a human capital leader who will not only lead an engaged, focused, and innovative talent team, but also create an overall organizational culture of collaboration, engagement, high-performance, and innovation. Demonstrated passion for developing innovative solutions, driving change, and taking organizations to a new level of growth and world-class performance.