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Technical Talent Sourcer

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Technical Talent Sourcer, Engineering

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

Activision Blizzard King is looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Technical Talent Sourcer with strong communication and collaboration skills. As a member of the talent sourcing team, this role will focus on sourcing for top game engineering talent across the ABK game development organizations and will have significant influence and impact across the business. You will drive sourcing strategy, identify market trends, procure competitive intelligence, and partner with team members in the execution of these critical components. The ideal candidate must be self-driven and able to successfully prioritize a book of critical open roles and pipelines.

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

• Partner closely and effectively with sourcing, recruiting and hiring teams to develop, build and execute effective sourcing strategy leveraging talent market intel and insights
• Ability to source and deliver highly qualified prospects using multiple tools and techniques for a variety of roles at all levels
• Build AAA talent pipelines and maintain network of prospects through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management and sourcing campaigns
• Partner closely with cross-functional partners (talent attraction, compensation, HR, systems and operations teams, etc.)
• Develop and deliver on industry event strategies
• Maintain accurate and thorough documentation via the company’s CRM

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• A minimum of 1+ years of hands-on talent sourcing experience
• Expert in cutting edge tools/sourcing techniques
• Expertise and insight into the gaming talent market
• Relationships with passive top talent in technical/gaming business pillars
• Strong business acumen
• Demonstrated communication and collaboration skills
• Able to exercise independent judgment and discretion
• Strong eye for talent and intuition for culture fit

Extra Points:

• Passion for gaming
• Experience using Eightfold, Avature or other CRMs
• PC/Console Game, Mobile Game industry in-house experience preferred

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.