Senior Technical Program Manager, Finance Engineering - Activision Blizzard

Activision Blizzard • Santa Monica, CA

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About The Position

Senior Program Manager, Finance Engineering
Activision Blizzard is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Senior Program Manager to work with our Finance Engineering team to define and achieve our priorities. This individual will support key strategic initiatives and will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of products and/or programs including concept inception, delivery, adoption, and operational support.

Requirements

• A minimum of 7+ years of experience as a program manager or project manager managing application programs or projects
• Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-organizational, complex enterprise application programs or projects utilizing internal and vendor resources
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills; comfortable presenting and communicating to large groups and across all levels of the organization in an effective, situationally appropriate, clear, and high-quality manner
• Excellent grasp of various program and project management methodologies and tools
• Ability to work independently and proactively deliver results with limited supervision
• Ability to effectively work within a geographically diverse team
• Self-motivated with strong initiative, ability to work in a dynamic work environment
• Ability to lead and influence without explicit authority
• Detail-oriented, problem solver with excellent organization skills
• Experience implementing, championing, and working with Agile development methodologies
• Experience with vendor and contract management process
• Knowledge of ERP (preferably Oracle EBS) and finance ecosystem and technologies
• Knowledge of various database and data analytics tools and technologies

Nice To Haves

• Passion for the gaming industry
• Familiar with the technical landscape of today’s finance ecosystem
• Prior experience as a scrum master or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
• Experience with Azure DevOps or the Atlassian suite of tools like Jira and Confluence for task tracking and collaboration
• Well-versed and comfortable in IT infrastructure (data centers, networking, cloud, storage platforms, etc.)
• Background or experience working with security, compliance, or risk‑related initiatives
• Product management experience
• Experience with Smartsheet for project management
• Experience with Waterfall project management methodology
• Experience exploring or enabling AI use cases within enterprise platforms, particularly in finance, planning, reporting, or operational contexts

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the product strategy and roadmap for the portfolio of applications
• Identify the order of importance and urgency among individual projects, portfolios and operational tasks to plan milestones, schedules and resources
• Ensure that projects goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables are achieved on schedule and within budget
• Develop status reporting and communicate effectively and proactively to all levels of the organization regarding status, schedules, risks, issues, etc.
• Proactively identify and communicate risks or issues that might impede assigned projects, and develop mitigation plans or solutions to resolve
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key executives, senior leaders, stakeholders, and team resources throughout the organization to achieve project objectives and deliverables
• Define, manage, and improve project management processes and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and application owners to develop test management plans; test scenarios, defect capturing, test status reporting, and approvals
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and application owners to develop change management plans and track change management activities as part of an overall project plan
• Contribute to a team environment that encourages collaboration, ongoing feedback, and participation throughout the Finance Engineering teams
• This role is expected to adapt and expand in scope as priorities, technologies, and processes evolve

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
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

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