HR Manager

Job Description

Your Platform

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Melbourne, Toronto and Guildford, UK – we're the videogame development team behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare, and Call of Duty®: WWII. Since our founding in 2009, our greatest passion has been making AAA games. The strength of our team members makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our dedicated employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker.

We're focused on constantly evolving, innovating and taking risks – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With elite audio, design, engineering and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for talented game developers for our exciting next project.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission

The HR Manager significantly contributes to the company's performance by providing tactical and strategic solutions on critical talent, overall workforce effectiveness, and enabling organizational capabilities that directly enable the outcome of the strategic objectives. The HR Manager plays a key role in driving company growth, revenue, and creativity by fostering best-in-class development teams that bring value for Sledgehammer Games.

The HR Manager will lead and partner with centralized teams to carry out the following responsibilities: talent attraction, retention, succession, pipeline planning, and workforce optimization; performance and total rewards management, employee productivity, relations; policy interpretation and application.

Additional responsibilities include organizational design, effectiveness; staffing models, talent capabilities, career progression initiatives, and coaching and training. This position requires a data-driven, analytical, collaborative and influential HR professional who can work effectively across a highly matrixed environment.

Key Accountabilities
• Deliver a human capital plan driven by annual and long-term planning, translating business requirements into effective and modern initiatives
• Lead change management efforts across assigned client groups, ensuring employee and partner impact are at the forefront of organizational decisions, and that organizational changes are planned and thoughtfully implemented with strong process integrity
• Accountable for the approach and outcome on employment matters; directing and influencing management around the people agenda to increase intended performance and reduce people-related risks
• Provide day-to-day coaching to leadership on a variety of actions to enable them to grow and perform at their best
• Drive integrity and accountability for the effective implementation of the annual HR cycle to facilitate improved delivery, including workforce and talent planning, performance management, and total rewards
• Analyze, report, and use predictive people analytics as evidential reasoning to continuously improve the talent metrics
• Identify levers and develop strategies that measurably improve engagement and retention (e.g., talent assessments, engagement surveys, exit surveys)
• Create and maintain strong networks and relations (informal and formal) with employee resource groups, external partners, and leading industry and team member communities
• Actively participate in annual budget planning/staffing forecasting process

Player Profile
• Bachelor's Degree in HR, Communications, Psychology, Organizational Behavior, or related field; Master's degree a plus
• 5+ years of dynamic experience in all aspects of Human Resources
• Organization design and development experience, including strong organizational change, for a sophisticated and redefining business organization
• Experience assessing leadership and organizational talent; identifying talent gaps and efficiently implementing initiatives to address gaps
• Experience directly supporting senior leaders, influencing leaders to make better people decisions that achieve business results
• Experience using facts and data to build people-centric cases; for example, the use of staffing models and other analytical tools
• Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking; high IQ, high EQ, passion, and strong critical thinking skills with a willingness to take reasonable risk and challenge the status quo
• Exceptional project and process management skills with a demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced, complex, dynamic business environment
• The highest level of integrity with a proven track record to gain trust from all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusion
• Experience supporting a global client group is a plus

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the gaming 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! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk139q-3-139-107-241-42 in your application.