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Lead Product Manager, Senior II - Data Platform

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Job Description

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a passionate Product Management Leader to help us deliver on our Big Data strategy by joining the Battle.net & Online Products Data & Integration Services team.

The Battle.net & Online Products organization is home to 300+ superpowered engineers, product managers, project managers, and designers focused on building the technology that powers Blizzard Entertainment’s games. Whether you’re playing one of our titles, chatting with friends, visiting our websites, or just shopping online, B&OP ensures that our players are immersed in engaging, exciting, and secure experiences.

Our Data & Integration Services team maintains and delivers the systems by which all of our game titles and applications ingest, process, and store events and metrics. This data is critical to our business as we look for trends across our entire player base to help business development, product management, and marketing efforts.

In the role of Lead Product Manager for this portfolio, you will lead a team of product managers and work with customers inside and outside of Battle.net & Online Products to identify problems, determine objectives, propose solutions, drive alignment on specifications, deliver high-quality products, and measure their performance against their goals. You will help with defining and championing the vision to continuously improve your products. You will interact with senior technical and business leaders, engineers, product managers, and producers across the company, as well as senior managers across Blizzard.

Our ideal candidate is a seasoned product leader with prior experience managing successful data platforms and product management teams. You possess the ability to build consensus among diverse teams of people and guide them into highly collaborative partnerships. You enjoy working with large volumes of highly interdependent data and know-how to tame the complex pipelines that deliver it from ingest to persistent storage.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the application lifecycle of platform features or enhancements from conceptualization, requirements gathering, product specification, implementation review, and release.
• Act as product owner for components of the platform to ensure that features address business needs and are developed on time.
• Act as a champion for significant projects, programs, and business initiatives using demonstrated creativity and ingenuity.
• Ensure your cross-functional product team is prepared to deliver features on time and with measurable value.
• Establish measurable product objectives that align with the organization’s product strategy and outcomes.
• Track and report the live service health of our data products. Manage the response and triage of production incidents.
• Quantitatively and qualitatively measure operational success as it relates to your products.
• Influence beyond Battle.net & Online Products by driving alignment of priorities and timelines with teams across Blizzard.
• Contribute to sustaining a healthy team culture, built around Blizzard values.
• Mentor individual contributor product managers, encouraging learning and growth while contributing to team goals.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years’ experience with product management, focusing on developing achievable objectives and a solid product roadmap, especially in the field of big data and cloud-based platforms.
• At least two years of experience managing product management teams.
• Understanding of software/data architecture and design with an emphasis on driving toward realistic and long-lasting solutions for the data platform.
• Driven to reach consensus internally and externally.
• Experience leading projects through the full software development life cycle.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Comfortable giving presentations to large groups and senior management.
• Enjoys experimentation and rapid prototyping as a means to discover what’s best for your products.
• Passion for iteration in order to find the optimal solution, but at the same time understands diminishing returns.
• Skilled in risk assessment and management.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

PLUSES

• Previous software engineering or data system administration experience.
• Previous experience with large scale platform migrations.
• Hands-on experience with data products such as Elasticsearch, Cloudera, Hadoop, Hive, Impala, and/or Hue.
• Hands-on experience with visualization systems such as Kibana, Grafana, or Tableau.
• Hands-on experience in public cloud data products such as AWS or GCP.
• Expertise in JIRA, Confluence, or similar team collaboration applications.
• Certification or training in business analysis and / or product management.

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

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 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.

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences.

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/ .