Associate Producer

Activision Blizzard • Santa Monica, CA

3d • $24 - $45 • Onsite

About The Position

Welcome to Solid State Studios, the mobile publishing and development arm of Activision, dedicated to developing the best mobile games in the world. This role will be for an unannounced mobile title based on an established, world-class franchise. You will work directly with an external developer to ensure the game arrives on quality, on time, and on budget. Specific duties and realms of ownership include bug and task database management, localizations, legal clearance, build schedules, risk assessment and mitigation planning, first party submissions, build feedback, user testing planning and coordination, and other similar aspects of production. This role is based in our Santa Monica, CA 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.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years experience in project management and/or team management in the video game industry
• Excellent communication skills
• Resourcefulness, curiosity and ability to take initiative
• Ability to work with structure, rigor and attention to detail
• Passionate about video games
• Shipped at least one live operated/free to play project in the video game industry
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, or other project management software
• Fluency in AI-driven automated processes for a variety of production workflows, such as bug database management and asset approvals

Nice To Haves

• A degree in project, production or operations management

Responsibilities

• Participate in project planning and development
• Manage the bug database
• Coordinate asset reviews with legal teams at the direction of production leadership
• Work closely with Developers, QA, and other partner groups to supervise submission of SKUs to first parties
• Contribute creative feedback to production team leadership to help ensure product is meeting quality and feature goals
• Organize and run user tests with both consumers and internal partners
• Participate in writing the project plans, supporting/proposal documents, and progress reports
• Organize, attend, and keep records for production meetings
• Manage build schedules, deliveries, and distribution
• Hire, contract, and manage 3rd party vendors
• Be a secondary point of contact for cross-functional groups including Brand Management, Marketing, PR, etc.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• Relocation assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree