Production Manager, Art Cosmetics | Overwatch - Irvine, CA
About The Position
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an experienced Production Manager to lead cosmetics production for the Overwatch team. The role oversees delivery of game-ready cosmetic assets and aligns cosmetics strategy, roadmap ambitions, development capacity, and execution. The Production Manager manages and mentors producers, works across game leadership and partner disciplines, and establishes the structure and processes needed to deliver high-quality content at the scale and quality expected of Overwatch. The position also supports successful product launches and live operations, making tradeoff decisions across art, product, production, development, and partner teams, and communicating project status and risks to stakeholders. The role is anticipated to be hybrid, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio is Irvine, California. The position requires at least eight years of production or project management experience in game development, including at least four years focused on cosmetic art production, as well as experience managing and mentoring producers and proficiency with asset-tracking and project-management software, including Autodesk Flow.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of production or project management experience in game development.
- At least 4 years of experience focused on cosmetic art production.
- Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring producers.
- Strong proficiency with asset-tracking and project-management software, including Autodesk Flow.
- Deep understanding of game development, art workflows, and dependency chains.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills with stakeholders at various levels.
- Extensive experience working in a problem-solving environment.
- Ability to drive high-velocity, high-impact development cycles while balancing short-term needs and long-term vision.
- Adaptability and effectiveness in a highly dynamic environment.
- Ability to approach challenges creatively and methodically and see them through to resolution.
Responsibilities
- Lead Overwatch cosmetics production in partnership with game leadership and product, art, design, engineering, marketing, and production teams.
- Align cosmetics strategy and roadmap ambitions with development capacity and execution realities, and ensure the team is focused on appropriate priorities.
- Partner with production and discipline leadership to identify resource gaps, scaling needs, process friction, and organizational risks.
- Manage and mentor producers, including conducting annual reviews and supporting achievement of project goals, milestones, and deliverables.
- Establish effective organizational structures, streamlined processes, and practices that support efficient, timely delivery of high-quality work.
- Oversee the regular-cadence delivery of cosmetics art assets, ensuring accurate tracking, clear ownership, proactive issue resolution, and launch readiness.
- Coordinate schedules and deliverables with internal and external departments, including regional partners, and facilitate stakeholder alignment.
- Coordinate the team’s work for product launches and live operations, including integration of sophisticated cosmetics features with other teams.
- Make tradeoff decisions involving art, product, production, development, and partner teams in support of broader game, product, and business goals.
- Own project schedules in collaboration with discipline leads; determine time, resources, and capacity needs, and maintain project plans, schedules, and roadmaps that account for cross-team dependencies.
- Communicate project status, risks, tradeoffs, decision points, and release impacts transparently to stakeholders, production teams, project leads, and game leadership.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Health savings or health reimbursement account and healthcare and dependent-care spending accounts.
- Life and AD&D insurance and disability insurance.
- 401(k) with Company match.
- Tuition reimbursement and charitable donation matching.
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, and floating holidays.
- Compassion and bereavement leaves and parental leave.
- Mental health and wellbeing programs and fitness programs.
- Free and discounted games.
- Voluntary benefits, including supplemental life and disability coverage, legal services, ID protection, and rental insurance.
- Relocation assistance may be available if the Company requires the employee to move geographic locations for the job.
- Eligible employees may receive incentive compensation; it is not guaranteed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
