Game Producer - World of Warcraft Classic | Irvine, CA

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Your Mission

The World of Warcraft Classic development team is seeking a full-time Game Producer to help us shape the future of Azeroth. We need someone who can collaborate with an amazing team to turn our ambitious ideas into epic experiences for our players.

In this role, you will work closely with Designers, Engineers, and other Producers to establish timelines, track and balance workloads, and help our team maintain its commitment to quality across a series of significant World of Warcraft Classic projects. Join us in solving the exciting challenges that come with developing the most critically acclaimed MMO franchise in the world!

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

What you bring to the table:

• Support delivery of new releases, updates, and features for World of Warcraft Classic.
• Contribute to high level schedule planning across all of our titles, and break down plans into tasks.
• Facilitate communication, organization, risk management, and delivery for your areas of responsibility.
• Own process improvement initiatives across our team to ensure consistent and repeatable attainment of our goals.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• 3+ years’ experience in game production.
• 1+ years’ experience using Agile software development practices.

Knowledge & Skills

• Able to navigate the tradeoffs among scope, time, and resources.
• Ability to build, track, and maintain project schedules.
• Highly competent with Jira or other, similar project management tools.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills.
• Demonstrates good judgment.
• Emotionally intelligent with a tendency to treat other people with respect and empathy.

Extra Points

• Experience working with developers of every major discipline.
• Experience working in a co-development and/or outsourcing environment.
• Experience working on an MMO, free-to-play, or other live service game.

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 innovative 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/ .