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Researcher

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Job Title: Researcher

Reporting To: Director, User Research

Department: Administration

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Your Mission

Activision is looking for a passionate and experienced games user researcher and gamer to carry out user research on some of the world’s best-known franchises. Your role will primarily focus on conducting research on various Activision projects. Tasks will include: interfacing with development team partners to determine research goals and scope, planning and executing research methodologies, and delivering actionable findings to stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a motivated and experienced researcher familiar with playtesting and usability testing AAA games in a fast-paced development cycle.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts and oversees user research for at least one project under the direction of the manager, including all stages from planning to execution
• Carry out research using a variety of methods, including, but not limited to: usability testing, playtesting, balance testing, focus groups, interviews, surveys, heuristic evaluations, card sorts exploratory research, and field studies
• Crafts and edits actionable reports and surveys
• Presents/Communicates summarized research results directly to development teams for discussion and future implementation
• Offers design suggestions based on observation, research, and expertise
• Occasionally travels to run on-site tests or to act as research expert

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• One to two years of experience conducting user research for video games.
• Must have a passion for video games, especially FPS, platformers, and/or action-adventure titles
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Proficient in descriptive statistics
• Excellent interpersonal communication (both written and verbal)
• Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research methods

Your Platform

We’re headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.

Our World

Great Games Start with Great People! This is an exciting time to join us!

Ask anyone who works at Activision, or with Activision, their favorite thing about it, and they’ll tell you, it’s the people. We have world class brands, infrastructure and resources, but our success doesn’t come from assembly lines producing widgets. Our success comes from people producing greatness together. We are nothing without our employee’s brilliance. So if you’re interested in our biggest priority, it’s the people.

Activision is more than just the leading developer and publisher of video games; we are the creators of some of the world’s biggest, most ground-breaking titles in the industry. Our portfolio includes Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, and Destiny.

Activision is a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), headquartered in Santa Monica, California with locations across the globe. Activision Blizzard is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment. A member of the S&P 500 and recognized on the 2018 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Activision Blizzard has operations throughout the world with approximately 10,000 employees and players in 196 countries.

The video game 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.