Senior Technical Producer, Tech Strategy - Central Technology

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

Job Title: Senior Technical Producer, Tech Strategy | Central Technology

Requisition ID: R028329

Your Mission

Activision Central Tech is seeking a highly skilled and motivated senior producer to drive the success of our AI initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the entire product development lifecycle, aligning technical requirements across stakeholders, and collaborating with various teams to achieve shared technology goals.

What you bring to the table

Priorities can often change in a fast‑paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following 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.

Minimum Requirements

Production & Project Management:

• 5+ years of production or other project management background, 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.
• Deep experience with each stage of software development lifecycle, from inception, design and implementation, through to QA and deployment.

Nice to have:

• Experience working on AAA and/or first-person shooter games.
• Experience with AI/ML, LLM
• While not required, a technical degree such as a computer engineer or similar experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with data protection laws and regulatory requirements a plus.

Central Tech

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Our World

At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We're driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our "press start" is simple: delig