Senior Product Manager, Security - Central Technology

Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Security - Central Technology Requisition ID: R027346 Job Description:

Your Mission Call of Duty is one of the most iconic and successful video game franchises in the world, delivering unforgettable experiences to millions of players every day. At the heart of that experience is fair play—and that’s where the Ricochet Anti-Cheat team comes in. Our mission is to protect the integrity of the online experience, ensuring every player enjoys a level playing field.

As the team’s Senior Product Manager, you will play a critical role in defining the strategic vision of anti-cheat in Call of Duty and ensure the success of our initiatives. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead key initiatives in game security, anti-cheat, and player integrity. This role sits at the center of a highly adversarial problem space and in it you’ll design systems and capabilities that protect fair play, safeguard game ecosystems, and stay ahead of constantly evolving threats. You’ll work closely with engineering, data science, threat intelligence, and operations teams to define strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver solutions that detect, prevent, and respond to abuse at scale. This is a high-impact role requiring strong product judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to make decisions in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment.

What you bring to the table

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. Therefore, this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Define and drive product strategy for anti-cheat, abuse prevention, and game security systems
• Own the roadmap across detection, enforcement, and prevention capabilities
• Partner with engineering and data teams to build scalable detection systems (e.g., behavioral models, heuristics, signals pipelines)
• Collaborate with threat intelligence and operations teams to understand emerging threats and translate them into product requirements
• Design enforcement strategies that balance effectiveness, player experience, and false positive risk
• Use data, experimentation, and live operations feedback to continuously improve systems
• Lead prioritization across competing security investments, balancing proactive and reactive work
• Communicate product strategy, trade-offs, and outcomes to stakeholders across the organization
• Drive cross-functional alignment during high-severity incidents or abuse spikes

Player Profile Minimum Requirements

5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex or technical products. Experience working closely with engineering on backend systems, platforms, or data-driven products. Experience in game security, anti-cheat systems, or online multiplayer ecosystems. Experience with telemetry pipelines, real-time data systems, or large-scale event processing. Experience working with metrics such as precision/recall, false positive rates, or similar system performance indicators.

Knowledge & Skills

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience. Background in fraud detection, trust & safety, or other adversarial domains. Familiarity with reverse engineering, cheat development techniques, or exploit methodologies. Working knowledge of SQL, data analysis tools, or scripting for investigation and validation. Experience supporting live operations or incident response in high-velocity environments. Strong product intuition in adversarial or high-risk environments (e.g., fraud, abuse, security, trust & safety, or gaming). Familiarity with experimentation and iteration in live service environments. Track record of shipping impactful products or systems end-to-end.

Key Attributes

Strong analytical skills with experience using data to inform product decisions. Proven ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and levels. Ability to reason about trade-offs between detection accuracy, latency, scalability, and user impact. Comfort collaborating with technical stakeholders (engineering, data science, security).

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/. Our World At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We’re driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our “press start” is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences. We’re not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we’re forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate, creative, and diverse teams within our organization. We’re in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater — this could be your opportunity to level up.

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 to candidate-accommodations@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here.

Rewards

• 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.
• Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.

The standard base pay range for this role is $129,780.00 - $256,120.00 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.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. is the world’s largest interactive entertainment company, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. 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™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet! We’re proud to be recognized as one of FORTUNE’s "100 Best Companies To Work For®” for five consecutive years and have earned a spot on FORTUNE’s “Most Admired Companies,” and “Future 50” lists. Our 10,000+ global employees are some of the best and brightest talents across entertainment, media, and technology.

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