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Senior Program Manager, Corporate IT

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Activision Blizzard is seeking a high performing Senior Program Manager to join the Global IT PMO and work with our Corporate IT team to define and achieve both global Activision, Blizzard, King priorities as well as Activision specific priorities. You will join an inclusive and welcoming team of IT Program Managers who strive to be the best in the business.

We are looking for a senior program manager with a diverse program management skillset who is comfortable adapting their style depending on the situation at hand. They should have a good understanding of corporate infrastructure technologies, superb communication and relationship building skills, and an ability to adapt to shifting priorities. In this role, you will be driving multiple projects across a variety of technology stacks, predominantly Platform and Network, to deliver an outstanding IT experience for Activision Blizzard employees.

As a program manager, you will demonstrate the following skills consistently at a high level:

• Identify the order of importance and urgency among individual projects, portfolios and operational tasks to plan milestones, schedules and resources
• Ensure that projects goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables are achieved on schedule and within budget
• Drive major decisions, identify and eliminate risks and blockers, communicate program status to stakeholders and leadership
• Build and maintain effective relationships with resources, partners, colleagues and leaders with fierce accountability for delivering on commitments and partner needs
• Work independently and deliver results with little or no supervision
• Define and manage a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management
• Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged and making a meaningful contributions

Requirements:

• Extraordinary inter-personal skills, and oral and written communication skills
• Ability to break down and drive highly complex projects into clear and achievable milestones
• Passion for learning and managing new technologies
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
• Experience working and driving technical teams, ideally in the IT domain
• The ability to focus on details and bring clarity while maintaining the “big picture” view

Pluses:

• Strong experience with the Atlassian product suite
• Well versed and comfortable in IT infrastructure (data centers, networking, cloud, storage platforms, etc.)
• Excellent grasp of various program and project management methodologies (e.g. Portfolio Management, Sprinting and Backlog Grooming)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Scrum Master Certification
• MS Project Certification

Your Platform

We are 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

Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), headquartered in Santa Monica, California with locations across the globe, is one of the largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies in the world. Sitting at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment, our employees are some of the best and brightest across engineering, entertainment, media, and technology. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Skylanders®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™, and Bubble Witch™ and our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users across the globe.

A member of the S&P 500 Activision Blizzard is proud to be included as one of FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies To Work For®," "World's Best Employers," as well as "Most Admired Companies." In 2019 we were honored to receive a perfect score on our entry to the Corporate Equality Index as a Best Workplace for LGBTQ professionals and once again made Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies in Gaming.

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.

Activision Blizzard 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.