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Performance Management and Development Lead

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Reporting To: SVP of HR, Activision Publishing

Department: HR

Location: Santa Monica, CA (or possibly open to remote)

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, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

As a Performance Management and Development Lead you will be responsible for supporting CoD talent’s success and achievement of growth, owning and driving a world-class performance management and development process – including goal setting, coaching, and measurement – in partnership with central COEs and HRBPs

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

Own and drive the process:

• Support the roll-out over multiple years of Activision’s newest PM process – supporting future changes even beyond the currently defined aspirational state – including communication, capability building, process management, and other change mechanisms
• Drive the end-to-end, yearly performance management process on an ongoing basis, from goal setting through to reviews and developmental feedback
• Serve as single point of contact for manager and talent questions

Help forecast and manage outcomes:

• Both through qualitative means (e.g. network, ongoing dialogues) and quantitative means (e.g. analytics), help business understand critical patterns in performance management data, including common themes and forecasted outcomes; this could feed into and inform high-level strategic opportunities, direct management actions, and even individual –level development and interventions

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• 3+ years experience in strategic HR and/or organization consulting; in particular experience in a “pay for performance” organization
• Experience managing complex projects with long-term timelines and success
• Proven ability to work with numbers and data
• Track record of positive engagement with business stakeholders at all levels and at scale
• Rigorous problem structuring and problem-solving ability
• Analytical and quantitative skills
• MBA and/or advanced management or organizational science degree (preferred)

Extra Points:

• Has ability to influence in one-on-one (e.g. with candidates) as well as in group settings
• Is extremely organized
• Is a natural coach and enjoys enabling others’ successes

Our World

Our mission, to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment has never been more important. Through communities rooted in our video game franchises we enable hundreds of millions of people in 190 countries to experience joy, thrill and achievement. We enable social connections through the lens of fun and we foster purpose and a sense of accomplishment through healthy competition. Like sport, but with greater accessibility, our players can find purpose and meaning through competitive gaming. Video games, unlike any other social or entertainment media, have the ability to break down the barriers that can inhibit tolerance and understanding. As a business we have an extraordinary track record of delivering stakeholder value for over 30 years. We are a member of the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500. Our enduring franchises are some of the world’s most popular, including Activision’s Call of Duty® and Crash Bandicoot™, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, and King's Candy Crush™, Bubble Witch™, and Farm Heroes™. Our sustained success has enabled the company – through its support of the Call of Duty Endowment – to help find employment for over 80,000 veterans. Learn more information about Activision Blizzard and its world of epic entertainment on the company's website, www.activisionblizzard.com.

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 on the basis of disability.