Game Producer, Live Operations (Contract) - Overwatch | Irvine, CA

Blizzard Entertainment • Irvine, CA

23d • $30 - $56 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Overwatch team is looking for a Game Producer to help deliver world-class live experiences to millions of players around the globe. As a Game Producer focused on Live Operations, you will partner with multidisciplinary teams to plan, coordinate, and deliver live game updates, seasonal content, events, gameplay improvements, and operational initiatives. You will help transform goals into actionable plans, drive alignment across teams, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure high-quality releases reach players on time. The ideal candidate is highly organized, an exceptional communicator, and thrives in a fast-paced live-service environment. You excel at bringing clarity to complex initiatives, facilitating collaboration across multiple disciplines, and helping teams navigate challenges while maintaining quality and delivery commitments. You are passionate about games, player experience, and the Overwatch universe. This role offers a hybrid work week, with a mix of work-from-home and on-site days, based out of our Irvine studio.

Requirements

• 4+ years of production, project management, program management, or related experience within game development or software development.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams including Engineering, Design, Art, QA, Publishing, Live Operations, or Release Management.
• Experience supporting a live-service game, online product, or regularly updated software experience.
• Proven ability to create and maintain schedules, milestones, dependency tracking, risk assessments, and project documentation.
• Strong understanding of game development pipelines and release processes.
• Demonstrated ability to identify issues proactively, facilitate alignment, and drive projects to completion.
• Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience facilitating planning, prioritization, status reviews, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to influence outcomes and drive alignment without direct authority.
• Comfortable operating in an environment with evolving priorities, ambiguity, and time-sensitive operational needs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative and player-focused mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting a live-service title with seasonal content, events, patches, and ongoing operations.
• Experience with console publishing, certification, and first-party submission processes.
• Experience coordinating releases across multiple regions, platforms, or development teams.
• Familiarity with live-game configuration systems, feature management, content deployment, or operational tooling.
• Experience supporting security reviews, access management, permissions, or compliance-related release requirements.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Airtable, ShotGrid, or comparable production tools.
• Experience working with distributed teams and external development partners.
• Strong familiarity with Overwatch, its gameplay systems, seasonal content model, and player community.

Responsibilities

• Drive production planning and execution for live game updates, seasonal releases, events, gameplay features, and operational initiatives.
• Partner with Design, Engineering, Art, QA, Publishing, Release Management, Marketing, and Operations teams to ensure successful delivery of player-facing content and features.
• Build and maintain project schedules, milestone plans, release roadmaps, dependency tracking, and status reporting.
• Coordinate release readiness activities and ensure teams are aligned on priorities, risks, milestones, and quality expectations.
• Facilitate communication across development teams, leadership, and global stakeholders to maintain transparency and alignment.
• Identify production risks, dependencies, and blockers early, and partner with teams to develop mitigation plans.
• Support live issue triage and ongoing service operations by coordinating discussions, driving follow-up actions, and helping teams resolve issues efficiently.
• Coordinate security audit requirements, release approvals, and operational processes associated with content releases.
• Partner with Content Operations and related teams to support deployments of marketing, configuration, and live game data.
• Facilitate production ceremonies including planning sessions, release reviews, retrospectives, and stakeholder updates.
• Continually evaluate workflows, processes, and team operating rhythms to improve delivery predictability, efficiency, and quality.
• Help teams adapt to shifting priorities while maintaining focus on delivering exceptional experiences for players.

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: No Education Listed