JOB TITLE: Creative Producer
DEPARTMENT: Marketing Creative
REPORTING TO: Director of Production
LOCATION: Santa Monica, California
OUR PLATFORM
Activision has world-renowned entertainment and video game franchises, spanning genres and embedding themselves in pop culture for decades. Our current IP includes, but is not limited to, Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater. As a member of the Marketing Creative team, you will help bring these franchises to life as we develop campaigns and build creative.
YOUR MISSION
As a Creative Producer, you will oversee the project management and production for all of our digital projects for the Call of Duty franchise. You will ensure a smooth pipeline of projects, a strong relationship with our partners, and a strategic, forward-thinking view of the franchises. You will be critical in driving the workflow forward, and ensuring alignments across multiple stakeholders while delivering work that is high quality and on schedule. You are comfortable managing a high volume workload with often changing priorities and deadlines, and are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders to push a project through to completion.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide overall project leadership, developing relationships with the marketing and internal creative teams
- Prioritise all deliverables and projects in the pipeline and ensure quality of work meets standards as well as business objectives
- Ensure all individuals and teams providing assets to Marketing Services are clear on expected delivery dates and confirm, well in advance of the final delivery date, that they are on track to meet the deadline. Foresee and assess future or potential threats. Adjust schedules as necessary to maintain final project due dates.
- Prioritize tasks and projects to ensure work is completed efficiently, on schedule and within budget.
- Route creative materials to all necessary stakeholders including PR, Legal, Studio and Editorial and track approvals and revisions.
- Review all materials to ensure they meet internal and external technical requirements including brand and legal guidelines and that they are free of inconsistencies and errors
- Establish and maintain positive and professional working relationships with various teams, partners and vendors.
- Help create and implement processes that will improve quality and efficiency.
- Has proven experience managing multiple streams of work under tight and often changing deadlines
- Has a deep understanding of project management, workflow and infrastructure
- Build and maintain positive relationships with partners both inside and outside of Activision not limited to: Legal, PR, Editorial and external partners
- Represent Marketing Creative at cross-functional meetings and disseminate info to internal and external teams while clearly identifying next steps and action items
- Create and implement processes to make our project management and overall workflow more efficient
- Address urgent partner issues that arise day-to-day being able to perform well under pressure and ambiguity
PLAYER PROFILE
Minimum Requirements:
- 3+ years experience in production, account, operational and/or project management, preferably in a consumer marketing or advertising environment working with creative teams
- Able to handle multiple assets under tight deadlines while remaining organized, detail-oriented
- Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and juggling multiple projects at a time
- Working knowledge of video game production a plus, but not required
- Must be able to interact well, under pressure, with multiple teams on multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Must be extremely organized and have experience tracking and/or trafficking a high volume of assets
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders and managing multiple approval channels
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.
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.