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Manager, Operations

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Job Title : Manager, Operations

Reporting To: Director, Operations

Department : Solid State Studios

Location: Santa Monica preferred

Your Mission

Welcome to Solid State Studios. We’re a new in-house studio, dedicated to developing the best AAA mobile games in the world. Our first project is a new AAA mobile title, Call of Duty®: Warzone™ Mobile and we’re looking for great talent from mobile, console and PC backgrounds passionate about their work, who share our belief in what AAA experiences on mobile can and should be. We’re incredibly excited to build out our teams and get to work, and invite you to join us in making something special!

Your Profile

As the Operations Manager at Solid State Studios, you will lead multiple projects across our studio as well as support across governance, legal, planning, staffing, and other operations needs.

You will be responsible for coordinating the contribution of operational plans from multiple studios to the delivery of key mobile initiatives.

The operations role captures facilities, team health, central service coordination, and a wide around of process improvement, including but not limited to documentation efforts, P&L updates and product decisions that affect them, modifications to central team processes to enable mobile development pace and tracking, and general sharing and improvement of best practices across the mobile team, all of Activision, and all of ABK. You will work to ensure our standardized practices are well developed and distributed to our teams, and often be brought in on projects to address pain points that develop as we grow and scale. You will ensure consistent knowledge-sharing, learning, documentation, as well as improving tools and processes as necessary for all teams on the project to excel.

• Build, monitor and augment communication and operational processes between multiple studios co-developing critical titles
• Proactively and consistently evaluate operational and development process and efficiencies across the project, including augmenting and creating governance processes where necessary
• Manage overall headcount allocations and updates between multiple studios, to optimize hiring capabilities and team development (with Recruiting and Finance teams)
• With Finance and Solid State Operations, review and update project external contract spending, and reconcile with forecasts, providing overall project reforecasts quarterly
• With project and studio leads, evaluate plans and identify upcoming conflicts or resource constraints to meet project goals
• Coordinate operational planning with central Studio Ops team, including governance schedules, headcount planning and financial planning
• Improve existing (and develop new) processes for onboarding, purchasing, and contractual planning across studios engaged in co-developing critical titles
  

Minimum Requirements:

• A passion for process, excellence and achievement
• 2-3 yrs relevant experience managing complex projects and proven track record of success
• Leadership/Management role in game development process, on corporate or studio side
• Strong critical-thinking, organization, time management and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation and people alignment skills
• Experience with project planning and change management
• Breadth of experience with gaming functions - production, marketing, design
• Ability to multitask under severe deadlines
• Work in a fast-paced environment that requires frequent shift in focus
• Experience in console/PC and mobile game development and marketing

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! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.