Senior Program Manager, Applied Science | Irvine, CA

Blizzard Entertainment • Irvine, CA

4d • $115,140 - $213,024 • Hybrid

About The Position

For more than three decades, Blizzard has embraced technological evolution - not for its own sake, but to better serve our values, empower our teams, and enhance the experiences we deliver. We continue to explore cutting edge technologies that support game development and production. Our central applied science and machine-learning teams drive the development of internal tools and platforms. We are looking for a Senior Program Manager to support evaluation, adoption, and ongoing development of innovative technologies, tools, and platforms that are used in connection with video game development and production.
The role will partner with applied scientists, machine learning engineers, and stakeholders across the business to coordinate evaluations, manage execution, and guide the development of internal tools and platforms. The ideal candidate brings strong operational rigor, technical fluency in applied science, and product judgment in guiding technology adoption and the evolution of internal tools and platforms.
This role offers a flexible hybrid work week, with a mix of remote and on-site days. While hybrid is the standard arrangement, you're also welcome to work on-site full-time if you prefer. Our primary studio location is in Irvine, California.

Requirements

• 8+ years of program management experience supporting cross-functional technical initiatives, platforms, tools, and internal systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, statistics, or related domain
• Strong understanding of innovative technologies and tools, including LLM-based applications, context retrieval patterns, tool integrations, agentic systems, and automation.
• Ability to identify team needs, translate them into requirements, and help guide the direction of internal tools and platforms.
• Technical fluency to work effectively with applied scientists, machine learning engineers on requests, integrations, evaluation frameworks, and platform capabilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience partnering closely with engineering, applied science, or machine learning teams to shape internal capabilities, prioritize improvements, and support iterative development of tools and platforms.
• Experience supporting teams in game development or production environment.
• Experience driving thoughtful evaluation and adoption of new technologies in large organizations.
• Familiarity with assessing solutions across quality, cost, latency, safety, reliability, and usability.
• Familiarity with evaluating machine learning platforms, multimodal tools, and automation solutions.
• Master’s degree in engineering

Responsibilities

• Drive cross-functional planning and execution for the evaluation, adoption, and development of internal platforms and external technologies utilized in game development and production.
• Partner with applied scientists, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate team needs into clear requirements, evaluation plans, and adoption strategies.
• Help guide the direction and prioritization for internal tools and platforms by identifying high-value use cases, capability gaps, and opportunities.
• Manage stakeholder alignment, readiness, communications, and risk management to support successful rollout and adoption across teams.
• Track outcomes, user feedback, success metrics, and key dependencies to inform recommendations, platform direction, and guide scaled rollout.

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: Senior