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Technical Project Manager, Business Analytics & Planning

Activision
Santa Monica California 90405 United States of America
2 years ago
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Job Title:

Technical Project Manager, Business Analytics & Planning

Requisition ID:

R012715

Job Description:

Your Mission

The Tech. Project Manager role will be responsible for supporting the Business Analytics and Machine Learning teams of the Global Analytics department. This role will work closely with data, technology, studio and analytic partners along with vendors as well as a wide swath of stakeholder groups: Internal Product Groups, Finance, Studios, Executive Management, Legal and International partners.
Candidates need to demonstrate high success and experience in the following:

  • Extremely successful producing, optimizing and delivering on a heavy pipeline of performance analytic requests and data / engineering projects.
  • Strong experience in an Agile environment and familiar with agile best practices/methodologies.
  • Strong networking and influence skills to move people at all levels with varying agendas across the organization toward a common goal

Candidates must possess a tenacious appitite to be productive and solve problems while motivating others to that end. They must have a great work ethic, and be eager to learn. The right candidate will embody and model the Activision and Global Analytics cultural values and associated behaviors: Selflessness, respect & understanding, courageous & forthright, impact & solution catalysts, passionate & positive attitude.

Key responsibilities

They will be producing the requests and project/deliverables for the Descriptive Analytics Teams, who perform the actual logic building, reporting and analytics.

  • Engage with analysts (including off-shore), managers, partners, stakeholders, vendors and leadership on a daily basis to report progress, drive productivity, deliver on expectations, remove blockers and escalate issues
  • Work with the legal teams for SOW / MSA validation and agreements
  • Support the Business Analytics and Machine Learning teams on project scheduling & deliverables
  • Identify potential risks and develop risk mitigation plans in partnership with stakeholders, team members, partners and leadership
  • Track and produce team progress and report productivity status and optimizations
  • Ensure request / project delivery, review and approval of analytic, business and technical requirements
  • Source, and help drive collaboration and participation across various group activities
  • Collaborate and build relationships with other departments in the Activision Publishing Analytics organization enabling project deliveries

Player Profile

  • Professional Project Management / coordination work and a Bachelor’s Degree. PMP a plus.
  • 4+ years of project management / coordination experience
  • Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools: including Agile, Kanban, SCRUM, traditional waterfall, Jira and Confluence.
  • Driven, proactive, self-starter and quick learner. Never has to be asked to optimize productivity or solve a problem.
  • Strong initiative and organizational skills with attention to detail and a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
  • Demonstrates high degree of proactivity in building roadmaps, assessing project status, gathering requirements, unblocking issues and delivering results
  • Strong communicator - clearly articulate messages and context to a variety of audiences
  • Good networking and influence skills to move people at all levels in an organization toward a common goal
  • Ability to build relationships with partners, peers and stakeholders motivating others align and drive towards best practices and objective decision making
  • Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
  • Ability to get quickly up to speed on company culture, sentiments, and contex
  • Relevant software skills (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint)

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 unrivaled 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® and Crash BandicootTM. 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.

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