Associate Director, Technical Production

Job Title

Associate Director, Technical Production

Requisition ID

R027122

Your Mission

Activision Central Tech is looking for an Associate Director of Production to join our team. The Central Tech production team provides global leadership and support across technology development powering the Call of Duty franchise. In this role, you will bring experienced leadership in structuring our game technology investments, partner with franchise and studios leadership teams to establish strategy and scope, directly manage a team of technical producers, and provide production management and oversight necessary to orchestrate the work of many teams across distinct studios and geographies.

This role is based in our Vancouver, BC office and follows an onsite work schedule of four days per week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.

What You Bring To The Table (Responsibilities)

• Bring highly experienced leadership in overseeing a production team with large scope and complex technology initiatives with full ownership and autonomy.
• Lead and coordinate a team of production managers and producers. Build and mentor the team through structured career development, clear goals, and continuous feedback.
• Build shared technology roadmaps that satisfies our titles and franchise goals, in alignment with studios, engineering leadership and production leadership. This may involve establishing new processes and frameworks in an organization that may have operated with a different model.
• Establish structured and efficient collaboration and communication with development studios, franchise leaders and stakeholders.
• Ability to deliver on set goals as determined by leadership partners, translating strategic direction to tactical execution plans and clear outcomes.

Player Profile (Qualifications)

• 10+ years of technical production in game development with 3+ years of management experience
• Deep expertise in production operations, delivery methodologies, and organizational leadership across multiple teams or studios.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to lead multiple teams with sometimes divergent requirements along different timelines.
• Proven ability to manage production, technical and business stakeholders.
• Broad insight of general game technology, enabling to efficiently collaborate with technical leaders, stakeholders and CTOs, influence strategic direction across multiple teams and shape sequencing and resource planning for complex technology goals and initiatives.
• Proven ability to balance people management, delivery oversight, and stakeholder alignment; Proven ability to lead, influence and mobilize teams outside of direct authority.
• Proven ability to delegate and coach managers and senior producers, providing constructive feedback and enabling growth in both technical and leadership capabilities.
• Proven ability to build positive working relationships and contribute to an environment of trust, respect, and accountability.

Extra Points

• Experience working on AAA and/or first-person shooter games.
• A technical degree or similar experience.

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request toaccommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Benefits

• Extended health plan, including medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, for employees and their dependents, as well as disability insurance;
• RRSP with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other benefit programs like supplemental life & critical illness, legal service, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Compensation

The standard base pay range for this role is $131,197.50 - $277,305.00 CAD. These values reflect the expected annualized base pay range of new hires in British Columbia, Canada. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.

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