Senior Technical Project Manager

Activision • Santa Monica, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Sr. Technical Project Manager supporting the Data Analytics team, you will serve as a key facilitator across high-priority initiatives spanning Call of Duty studios, Finance, Activision Publishing, and Data Insights. You will partner closely with analytics leads, studio stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to ensure work is clearly scoped, prioritized, and delivered with transparency and accountability. This role is based in our Santa Monica, CA office and follows an onsite work schedule of 4 days a week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical project management experience supporting analytics, data science, or engineering teams in gaming, technology, or a comparable technical environment
• Undergraduate degree
• Strong command of Agile/Scrum and/or waterfall methodologies
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence or comparable project management tools
• Excellent communication, prioritization, scheduling, and documentation skills
• Proven ability to operate independently and manage evolving priorities with minimal guidance

Nice To Haves

• PMP, PMI, or comparable certification
• Experience supporting full game development lifecycles from alpha through release
• Familiarity with Databricks and Tableau

Responsibilities

• Champion strong PM fundamentals across the Data Analytics team; drive Jira best practices including ticket creation, sprint management, task triage, and workflow optimization
• Establish and align sprints with current Data Analytics goals; ensure all sprint tasks are fully scoped, tracked, and owned by the appropriate analyst or lead
• Drive work consistently from inception through integration across multiple concurrent studio, franchise, and publishing requests
• Generate and manage stakeholder roadmaps; triage deliverables as initiatives evolve and reprioritize in response to shifting needs
• Identify blockers early and develop risk mitigation plans in partnership with stakeholders, ICs, and leadership
• Coordinate with team leads to define MVPs, balancing speed-to-insight with available resources
• Foster transparency, ownership, and accountability with studio stakeholders and Analytics Leads through clear, timely communication on in-progress work
• Proactively identify key studio POCs to maintain forward momentum on critical initiatives
• Build trust with game studios, publishing teams, and internal partners to serve as a reliable conduit of cross-functional knowledge
• Ensure studios are informed of incoming changes, features, and cross-franchise analytics initiatives requiring their coordination or participation
• Champion documentation standards and repository improvements across Data Insights via Confluence updates and template development
• Support team learning and development programs; integrate PM and culture feedback to strengthen cross-functional collaboration
• Maintain and enhance Agile ceremonies sprint planning, standups, retrospectives and associated Jira tooling including automations and dashboards

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: Senior