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IT Program Manager, Enterprise Applications
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, Enterprise Applications
Activision Blizzard, Inc. is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Program Manager to work with our IT Enterprise Applications team to define and achieve both global Activision, Blizzard, King priorities as well as Activision specific priorities. This individual will support key central initiatives and will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of products and/or programs; including concept inception, delivery, adoption, and operational support.
Responsibilities
As a program manager, you will demonstrate the following skills consistently at a high level:
- Contribute to the product strategy and roadmap for the portfolio of applications
- Identify the order of importance and urgency among individual projects, portfolios and operational tasks to plan achievements, schedules and resources
- Ensure that projects goals, objectives, achievements and results are achieved on schedule and within budget
- Develop status reporting and communicate effectively and proactively to all levels of the organization regarding status, schedules, risks, issues, etc.
- Collaborate with Corporate Communications team to ensure newsletters and company communications are aligned with corporate standards
- Proactively identify and communicate risks or issues that might impede assigned projects, and develop mitigation plans or solutions to resolve
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key executives, senior leaders, collaborators, and team resources throughout the Activision Blizzard organization to achieve project objectives and deliverables
- Define and manage a project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement standard methodologies for Agile Project Management
- Collaborate with business partners and application owners to develop test management plans; test scenarios, defect capturing, test status reporting, and approvals
- Collaborate with business partners and application owners to develop change management plans and track change management activities as part of an overall project plan
- 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 as a program manager, product manager, or project manager managing application programs or projects
- Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-organizational, complex enterprise application programs or projects applying 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 dynamic work environment
- Ability to lead and influence without explicit authority
- Diligent, problem solver with excellent organization skills
- Experience implementing, championing, and working with Agile development methodologies
- Experience with vendor and contract management process
- Knowledge of ERP, HCM, EPM systems and technologies
- Knowledge of Various Database and Data Analytics tools and technologies
Pluses
- Passion for the gaming industry
- Prior experience as a scrum master or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification
- Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools like Jira and Confluence for task tracking and collaboration
- Well-versed and comfortable in IT infrastructure (data centers, networking, cloud, storage platforms, etc.)
- Excellent grasp of various program and project management methodologies (e.g. Portfolio Management, Sprinting and Backlog Grooming)
- Experience with Smartsheet for project management
- Experience with Waterfall project management methodology
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 Blizzard 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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