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IT Program Manager, Atlassian
1 year ago
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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 and creativity to improve the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB
IT Program Manager, Atlassian
Activision Blizzard, Inc. is looking for a dedicated and hard-working Program Manager to work with our Corporate Applications Atlassian team. The individual in this role will support key critical initiatives and will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of products within the Atlassian platforms including concept inception, delivery, and adoption. This position will interface closely with executives, business collaborators, product designers and engineers to deliver innovative solutions for the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the product strategy and roadmap for the Atlassian platforms
- Stay up to date with the latest relevant Atlassian offerings and functionality
- Successfully deliver on highly visible projects of strategic importance to the organization
- Lead the software development lifecycle and drive the technology team on all aspects of delivery, performing in a program manager and project management capacity
- Serve as day-to-day product owner on project teams (Agile) and operational teams leading or supporting the scrum ceremonies
- Perform all project management activities from project discovery through post-implementation efforts, including definition and management of achievements, requirements, workplan, resources, vendors, budget, scope, issues and risks, change, and collaborators
- Develop status reporting and communicate effectively and proactively to all levels of the organization regarding status, schedules, risks, issues, etc.
- Proactively identify and communicate risks or issues that might impede assigned projects, and develop mitigation plans or solutions to resolve
- Create and maintain strong relationships with key executives, senior leaders, collaborators, and team resources throughout the ABK organizations to achieve project objectives and deliverables
- Launch products, lead organizational readiness activities, and partner with collaborators to drive adoption
- Identify, develop, and implement continuous process improvements to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Corporate Applications team
- Contribute to a team environment that encourages collaboration, ongoing feedback, and participation throughout the Corporate and Enterprise Applications PMO teams
Requirements
- A minimum of 2-4 years of experience working with Jira & Confluence
- A minimum of 2-4 years of experience as a program manager, product manager, or project manager leading software development projects
- Validated experience leading large-scale, cross-organizational, complex enterprise application programs or projects using internal and vendor resources
- Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills; comfortable presenting and communicating to large groups and across all levels of the organization in an effective, situationally appropriate, clear, and high quality manner
- Ability to work independently and deliver results with little supervision
- Self-motivated with strong initiative, ability to work in a diverse work environment
- Ability to lead and influence without explicit authority
- Detail oriented, problem solver with excellent organization skills
- Ability to prioritize product and feature requests across the entire Atlassian portfolio, and to prioritize tasks across multiple projects
- Experience implementing, championing, and working with Agile development methodologies
- Experience with vendor and contract management process
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Pluses
- Passion for the gaming industry
- Prior experience as a scrum master
- Experience with the ServiceNow for request management
- Big 4 management consulting experience
- Experience leading third party software deployments
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Experience with Advanced Roadmaps or Structure
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 because of disability.
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