Lead Technical Program Manager - Activision

Activision Blizzard; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Activision Blizzard is seeking a Lead Technical Program Manager to orchestrate data activation, analytics engineering, and data platform integrations. This role requires coordinating with data engineers, analytics engineers, product and business leaders to align priorities and deliver impactful data solutions.

You will lead end-to-end planning across a portfolio, drive roadmap decisions, and ensure reliable, scalable implementations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical program, product, or project management experience with data and software.
• Ability to translate business priorities into executable technical plans.
• Experience coordinating across data, analytics, product, finance, and marketing technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end planning and delivery across data activation and analytics initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional programs across Studios, Analytics, Finance, Marketing Technology, and engineering teams.
• Shape roadmaps and align team capacity with business priorities and customer commitments.
• Perform SQL-based validation and first-pass troubleshooting to accelerate issue resolution.
• Coordinate milestones, risks, decisions, releases, migrations, and operational readiness across concurrent workstreams.
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to engineering teams and senior leaders.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional leadership

Data collaboration

Tools

SQL

Job description

Job Title

Lead Technical Program Manager - Activision

Requisition ID

R028027

Job Description

Your Mission

Publishing’s Data and Analytics Engineering team builds and operates the data products, pipelines, and integrations that turn trusted data into action across our Studios, Analytics, Product, Finance, and Marketing Technology ecosystem. We are looking for a Lead Technical Project Manager to serve as the connective layer across these disciplines - bringing structure to ambiguous problems, translating business priorities into executable technical plans, and driving complex initiatives from intake through launch.

This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who combines strong program leadership with practical data and software fluency. You will partner closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, product and business leaders, and platform teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, resolve issues, and ensure our solutions are reliable, scalable, and useful.

This role is based in our Los Angeles (Pen Factory) office and follows an onsite work schedule of Monday through Thursday. Work arrangements may change at the company’s discretion to meet business needs.

What You Bring To The Table

• Own end-to-end planning and delivery across a portfolio of data activation, analytics engineering, and data platform integration initiatives.
• Serve as the program lead across Studios, Analytics, Finance, Marketing Technology, and engineering teams—clarifying goals, requirements, ownership, dependencies, and success measures.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape roadmaps, sequence work, and align team capacity with business priorities and customer commitments.
• Perform SQL-based validation or optimization and first-pass troubleshooting to accelerate issue resolution and route deeper investigation effectively.
• Drive execution across concurrent workstreams by managing milestones, risks, trade-offs, decisions, release coordination, migrations, and operational readiness.
• Use technical expertise to understand data flows, schemas, APIs, models, and system integrations.
• Establish scalable operating mechanisms for intake, prioritization, status reporting, decision logs, documentation, service ownership, and governance-related workflows.
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to engineering teams, business partners, and senior leaders, tailoring the level of detail to the audience.
• Define and track meaningful outcomes—including adoption, data quality, reliability, timeliness, and delivery predictability—and use retrospectives to improve how teams work together.

Player Profile

• 7+ years of technical program, product, or project management experience working directly with data, software,