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Director, Workplace Investigations

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Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB .

Your Mission

The Ethics & Compliance team at Activision Blizzard is growing fast to support the company’s commitment to an inclusive, safe, inspiring and equitable culture that is respectful to all. The Director, Workplace Investigations will build out a team to manage critical workplace investigations that are crisis-oriented and time sensitive, and act as a role model to preventing workplace misconduct.

The Director, Workplace Investigations will report to Senior Director, Ethics & Compliance Investigations. Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Build out and develop a high-performing workplace investigation team.
• Enhance and improve the company’s investigation strategies and processes to prioritize employee support.
• Manage end-to-end investigative processes for employee complaints and resolve conflicts, compliance, and sensitive work-related issues, including intake meetings, initial assessment, investigative interviews, document review and report drafting.
• Advise appropriate remedial action to be taken as a result of workplace investigations.
• Analyze workplace investigation trend and advise the company on the risk metrics.
• Deliver and support training relating to workplace investigations and compliance.

Player Profile

• Minimum of seven years of relevant experience in workspace investigation and/or employment relations.
• Experience of recruiting, managing and developing best-in-class teams preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of global employment laws and regulations and the ability to appropriately spot employment risks and issues.
• Ability to use analytical skills to efficiently distill relevant information.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, while balancing acting with a sense of
  urgency and need for attention to detail.
• Business and people acumen and knowledge of HR frameworks and models.
• Ability to gain trust from all levels of the organization and manage difficult conversations.
• Exceptional writing and communications skills, with a demonstrated ability to provide direct feedback and persuasively convey recommendations.
• Intellectual curiosity and commitment to learning.

Education

Undergraduate degree required. Law degree preferred but not required

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), 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.

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.