Senior Technical Producer: AI Strategy & Cross-Studio Delivery

DEMONWARE (CANADA) , INC.; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Activision Central Tech in Santa Monica seeks a Senior Technical Producer to drive AI initiatives and oversee the product development lifecycle across studios. You will align technical requirements, plan and schedule projects, manage resources, and provide KPI-driven reporting to leadership.

You will collaborate with multiple studios, balance competing priorities, and support the development of shared technology capabilities while ensuring timely delivery of complex programs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production or project management experience, preferably in the games space or other software-forward environment on either client or backend.
• Skilled with project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and communication infrastructure such as Slack and Miro.
• A track record of helping ship software products in a timely manner or in rapid development cycles.
• Successful project planning, leading completion, and the timely delivery of quality projects.

Responsibilities

• Product Development Lifecycle : Lead the full product development lifecycle, from gathering requirements to prioritizing features, assisting in writing specifications, and ensuring alignment with strategic technology development goals.
• Stakeholder Alignment : Work closely with stakeholders across all the Call of Duty studios to align technical requirements and foster collaboration among teams.
• Project Planning : Develop project schedules, implementation plans, status reports, burndown charts, and shared technical roadmaps across studios.
• Resource Management: Balance resources across multiple projects, ensuring efficient allocation and staffing to meet technology roadmaps. Work closely with studio Producers to ensure resources are properly allocated amongst project initiatives.
• Project Oversight : Manage project backlogs, track progress, identify critical issues, and elevate blockers. Monitor project velocity and highlight risks. Drive recurring project updates (E.g., Team meetings / stand-ups, Post-mortems, Sprint Kick-offs)
• Reporting : Provide regular, timely, and accurate reporting to stakeholders and leadership, including KPIs to track project timeliness and quality.
• Process Enhancement: Collaborate with internal resourcing teams with PMG and studios to optimize development efficiency and enhance the structure and communication within Core Development teams.
• Documentation : Create wireframes, process flow diagrams, UI mock-ups, and other documentation to support project requirements.
• Leadership Goals: Deliver set goals as determined by leadership partners across different studios, driving the development of shared technology capabilities.
• Communication : Excellent communicator with the ability to lead multiple teams with sometimes divergent requirements along different timelines. Comfortable with building trust in a large organization with many independent operating functional units.

Skills

Production management

Stakeholder alignment

Roadmap planning

Team leadership

Agile workflows

Education

Technical degree (computer engineering) or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Slack

Miro

Job description

Activision Central Tech in Santa Monica seeks a Senior Technical Producer to drive AI initiatives and oversee the product development lifecycle across studios. You will align technical requirements, plan and schedule projects, manage resources, and provide KPI-driven reporting to leadership.

You will collaborate with multiple studios, balance competing priorities, and support the development of shared technology capabilities while ensuring timely delivery of complex programs.