Engineering Director

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

As an Engineering Director you will be take ownership for the execution of key components across our technology roadmap, guiding a focused team of engineers to build and refine components, tools, and capabilities to support Game Security initiatives. Working directly with senior management in the Game Security group, you will be entrusted and empowered to deliver mission critical capabilities that protect the safety and security of our major franchise titles.

As a battle tested engineering leader, you will help navigate roadblocks, define solutions, and focus resources to deliver best of breed solutions in support of our mission. Taking direction from Game Security leadership, you will be empowered and encouraged to be a proactive, inventive, and trusted resource to mentor and guide a highly skilled engineering team.

A concise understanding of the full software product development lifecycle, supported by a solid track record of managing the delivery of complex technology solutions, is essential to be successful in this role. This role is highly suitable for somebody who not only garners respect as a professional and knowledgeable engineering team leader, but isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and get the job done – getting hands-on with the team will be highly encouraged.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Responsible for full product development lifecycle, from gathering requirements, to prioritizing features, assisting engineers writing specifications, reviewing execution plans and ensuring alignment against strategic technology development goals.
• Work with Game Security leadership to align technical requirements across multiple stakeholders.
• Resolve ambiguity, highlight risk, and provide predictable estimates for deliverables.
• Balance resources across multiple projects already in flight, and build plans for upcoming roadmap deliverables.
• Identify risks early and often, and suggest mitigation strategies that consider multiple paths and pragmatic solutions. Be able to offer alternative approaches, balancing technology and business requirements against time and resources.
• Provide hands-on engineering leadership by example, offering guidance and mentorship to engineers.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• 7+ years of technical product ownership, engineering team management in support of videogame development at engine, tools, or feature-level, or similar experience.
• Experience with defining and leading platform initiative and/or complex software engineering projects.
• Deep experience with each stage of software development lifecycle, from inception, design and implementation, through to QA and deployment; translating requirements into effective engineering execution.
• Experience in practicing agile development practices, and strong working knowledge of a variety of project management techniques.
• Be able to practice what you preach – diving in and contributing directly to development efforts when necessary.
• Able to proactively navigate roadblocks with effective solutions. Can breakdown complex projects into manageable phased deliverables.

Skills To Execute Successfully
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills.
• Facilitator who clears roadblocks for the engineering team, taking ownership to keep things moving.
• Highly technical acumen – understand key problem domains and how to leverage innovative modern software engineering techniques.
• Be able to juggle multiple priorities – able to keep things moving and stay on track.

Technical Requirements
• Extensive knowledge of Intel-family processor architecture, mobile processors (such as ARM64) a plus.
• Strong C/C++ development on game titles, including some understanding of assembly code, and solid understanding of source control best practices and hands-on knowledge of P4.

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, then 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 with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $189,520.00 - $350,516.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the US and is not applicable to locations outside of the US Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d98xj7-18-221-174-248-42 in your application.