Production Manager, Art Cosmetics | Overwatch - Irvine, CA

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Job Title:Production Manager, Art Cosmetics | Overwatch - Irvine, CA
Requisition ID:R028300
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Job Description
Are you passionate about creating exceptional games that captivate players? Do you have a deep understanding of game development and a desire to lead teams towards success? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you on the Overwatch Team at Blizzard Entertainment! As the guardian and hero of our beloved game, you will play a crucial role in driving production excellence and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality cosmetics for our players.
We are seeking an experienced Production Manager to join our Overwatch team, specializing in Cosmetics. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in the delivery of game-ready assets for Overwatch. We are looking for individuals who possess outstanding production skills, excel in organization, possess exceptional communication abilities, thrive in managing schedules for complex projects, and has experience leading a team. In this role, we expect a passion for the Overwatch universe and a sharp focus on the production and ongoing development of our in-game content, alongside proven ability to manage, mentor, and elevate a team of producers.
This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.
Responsibilities:
Lead cosmetics production for Overwatch, partnering with game leadership, product, art, design, engineering, marketing, and production to ensure cosmetic strategy is focused, aligned, and executable.
Own alignment between cosmetics strategy, roadmap ambition, development capacity, and execution realities, ensuring the team is focused on the right priorities and set up to deliver successfully.
Partner with production and discipline leadership to identify resource gaps, scaling needs, process friction, and organizational risks, ensuring the cosmetics production model can ramp alongside the team’s ambitions.
Manage and mentor a team of producers, including annual reviews, providing guidance and support to ensure project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
Ensure the team has an optimal organizational structure, streamlined processes, and effective practices that enable efficient and timely delivery of high-quality work at the scale and quality bar expected of Overwatch.
Oversee the delivery of art assets required on a regular cadence for cosmetics, ensuring accurate tracking, clear ownership, proactive issue resolution, and readiness before launch.
Collaborate closely with internal and external departments including regional partners, managing schedules and deliverables, facilitating alignment across stakeholders, and holistically solutioning to move the cosmetics pipelines forward.
Take ownership of successful product launches and live operations, coordinating your team’s work and facilitating the integration of sophisticated cosmetics features with other teams.
Understand broader game, product, and business goals, and drive complicated tradeoff decisions involving art, product, production, development, and other partner teams.
Assume responsibility for the schedule, working with discipline leads to determine the time, resources, and capacity required for project completion. Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and roadmaps, considering dependencies across multiple teams.
Communicate project status, risks, tradeoffs, and decision points transparently to stakeholders, ensuring they are properly advised of any impacts from upcoming releases. Collaborate frequently with the production team, project leads, and game leadership on project status, risks, and opportunities.
Minimum Requirements:
8+ years of production/project management experience in game development, including at least 4 years focused on cosmetic art production; demonstrated experience managing and mentoring producers; and strong proficiency with asset tracking and project management software, including Autodesk Flow.
Deep understanding of game development, art workflows, and dependency chains.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, coupled with excellent communication skills when interacting with stakeholders at various levels.
Extensive experience in a problem-solving environment, where each new challenge is seen as an opportunity for success.
A self-starter who approaches challenges creatively and methodically, seeing them through to final resolution.
Ability to drive high-velocity, high-impact development cycles, effectively balancing short-term needs and long-term vision.
Adaptability and effectiveness in new situations within a highly dynamic environment.
Join us on our journey to create groundbreaking experiences in Overwatch and beyond. Show us your potential, and the right candidate may have opportunities for growth within our organization.
Note: This job description provides a general overview of the role and expectations but is not exhaustive and may be subject to change.
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
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 accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.
The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
Our World
At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.
The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.