Associate Production Director - Temp (SFD / Cinematics)

Blizzard Entertainment • Irvine, CA

1d • $124,400 - $230,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an experienced, highly organized professional with a managerial and production background in animation, VFX, or game development. The ideal candidate will possess outstanding communication skills and proven experience managing and building teams. The Associate Production Director will collaborate with cinematic project producers and department leaders to ensure the successful production of cinematics for the studio. This role involves acting as a team manager, strategist, and collaborator across various teams within and outside the Story and Franchise Development department. The candidate should be well-versed in leading projects through an animation pipeline, experienced in mentoring teams, and capable of working effectively in a fluid production environment. Primary duties include overseeing all cinematic trailers and promotional shorts, ensuring efficient production and maintaining the quality standards of Blizzard's cinematics team. While direct content production is typically handled by those reporting to this position, the Associate Production Director will facilitate and advance production, while also managing and improving the skill sets of individual producers. This is a hybrid work position, with some on-site and some work-from-home requirements, based out of the Irvine, CA studio. This is a 12-month temporary position.

Requirements

• 10+ years of leadership experience in game development/film/animation or equivalent work experience
• Proven experience managing multiple projects/priorities and deadlines
• Demonstrated experience in resource planning across multiple projects
• Successful track record of developing and leading teams of 5-10 people
• Expertise in leading teams and guiding outsourcing partners
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Existing knowledge of Blizzard Entertainment games, characters, or existing lore a plus, but not required
• Ability to collaborate closely with surrounding departments to ensure success of all projects
• A love for storytelling, movies, and video games

Responsibilities

• Supporting the efforts of the cinematic production team
• Ensuring projects run smoothly in partnership with surrounding leadership and by supporting an inclusive, highly collaborative environment
• Partnering with cross-departmental leaders to plan and assign project leadership teams, considering fluctuating production demands, available talent, team composition, and creative strengths
• Establishing and helping to maintain relationships with key game team personnel, the publishing team, and other stakeholders
• Developing and helping to maintain solid relationships with outsourcing vendors, negotiating deal terms, and providing oversight to all outsourced cinematics

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 (if the Company requires a geographic move for the job)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed