Senior Technical Product Manager - Tech Strategy, Central Technology

Activision; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 80,800 - 149,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and vacation time

Mental health and wellness programs

Job summary

Activision is looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead tech strategy within Central Technology in Santa Monica, California. This role involves defining product strategies to enhance developer productivity and streamline content creation workflows across teams.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in Technical Product Management, with a strong background in data analysis and SQL. You will also establish KPIs and maintain dashboards to support multi-team collaboration in technical initiatives.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and 401(k) plans.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Product Management.
• Experience analyzing development pipeline data, user experience surveys, workflow adoption, stability trends.
• Proficiency in SQL required.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy for initiatives that improve developer experience.
• Support product planning for optimizing content creation workflows.
• Establish operating rhythm and success metrics for complex technical initiatives.

Skills

Technical Product Management

SQL

Cross-functional experience

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Job Title

Senior Technical Product Manager - Tech Strategy, Central Technology

Requisition ID

R027470

Job Description

Your Mission

The Senior Technical Product Manager-Tech Strategy will be part of the Central Technology team, which serves as a strategic partner for game development studios in the areas of online services, engine tools, graphics, systems engineering, security, and infrastructure.

We support all aspects of the development process from building pipeline to launch, collaborating with studios on best practices in technology and architecture to help build franchises and the Activision IP portfolio. All the while, we also serve as a bridge to the publishing organization to align game technical development with 1st party management, analytics, product management, marketing, and public relations.

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:

Developer Experience, Productivity & Stability

• Own product strategy and execution support for initiatives that improve the day‑to‑day experience of engineers, artists, QA, and content creators across the development ecosystem. This includes identifying workflow friction, measuring developer productivity, improving visibility into stability issues, and helping teams prioritize the highest‑impact improvements across tools, build systems, test pipelines, crash trends, regressions, and live‑development workflows.
• Define KPI frameworks, develop dashboards, analyze trends, and partner with technical teams to turn recurring pain points into structured product opportunities. Example areas may include trunk stability, build and compile performance, editor/tool crash rates, presubmit validation, playtest stability, automated reporting, and cross‑project regression tracking.
• Deliver measurable improvements that increase development velocity, decrease risk, and boost content throughput. Reliable tools, stable workflows, and clear operational metrics allow teams to spend less time firefighting and more time building player‑facing experiences. This role ensures developer productivity and stability are measured, visible, and actionable across studios.
• Day‑to‑day cross‑functional stakeholders: Central Technology, studio engineering teams, tools teams, artists and content creators, QA, production, analytics, build/release, online services, studio leadership, and publishing leadership.

Content Creation Workflow Optimization

• Support product planning and cross‑functional execution for initiatives that streamline content creation workflows across disciplines such as maps, operators, weapons, environments, lighting, VFX, and related production pipelines. This includes documenting current‑state workflows, identifying pain points, aligning teams on target‑state processes, and helping establish scalable standards for content creation across studios.
• Partner with studios and technical teams to develop roadmaps, define owners, gather requirements, track adoption, and measure workflow impact through qualitative feedback and quantitative KPIs. Example work may include improving documentation quality, standardizing intake and review processes, reducing handoff friction, improving workflow maintainability, and expanding successful workflow patterns across additional content areas.
• Drive consistency and efficiency to support multiple titles, live seasons, and complex production needs, providing quality, schedule predictability, and content velocity. This role creates the structure, visibility, and alignment needed to scale best practices across disciplines and studios.
• Day‑to‑day cross‑functional stakeholders: Studio production, art directors, content discipline leads, tools teams, technical artists, engineering, QA, Central Technology, documentation owners, franchise leadership, and publishing stakeholders.

KPI Ownership, Dashboards & Cross‑Functional Alignment

• Establish and maintain the operating rhythm, dashboards, and reporting artifacts needed to manage complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and studios. This includes defining success metrics, building reporting structures, tracking action items, surfacing risks, and preparing executive‑ready updates that clearly communicate progress, blockers, ownership, and recommended next steps.
• Convert fragmented inputs across teams into a coherent view of initiative health. This may include weekly KPI updates, executive summaries, action item tracking, roadmap status, dashboard requirements, adoption metrics, and leadership readouts across developer productivity, workflow efficiency, and stability initiatives.
• Provide clarity and accountability across teams that do not share the same reporting lines, tools, processes, or priorities. Strong KPI ownership and clear communication drive decision‑making without direct authority. This role ensures that leadership and working teams have a shared understanding of what matters, what is improving, what is blocked, and where decisions are needed.
• Day‑to‑day cross‑functional stakeholders: Central Technology leadership, studio leadership, production, engineering, QA, analytics, finance where applicable, tools teams, business operations, franchise leadership, and executive stakeholders.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Product Management.
• Experience analyzing development pipeline data, user experience surveys, workflow adoption, stability trends, and operational metrics.
• Experience working with Technical Data and proficient with SQL.
• Background ensuring cross‑studio alignment on shared technologies, processes, tooling standards, reporting practices, and workflow improvements that can scale across multiple titles, teams, and development disciplines.

Knowledge & Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in technical product management or a closely related discipline.
• Proficient in defining problem statements, success metrics, roadmap prioritization, and measurable outcomes.
• Cross‑functional experience with engineering, production, tools, QA, analytics, studio leadership, and publishing stakeholders.

Key Attributes

• The ability to perform as the connective layer between technical teams and business leadership, ensuring complex issues are communicated clearly.
• Proficient translating ambiguous technical and production challenges into clear business context, product requirements, prioritization frameworks, and actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

Our Platform

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

Central Tech is part of Activision.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well‑being for every employee. Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• 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, you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part‑time and temporary full‑time employees and interns.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $80,800.00 - $149,400.00 annually. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to [e-mail].