Sr. Manager, Mobile Operations

Job Description

Your Mission

Welcome to Solid State Studios. We're a new in-house studio, dedicated to developing the best AAA mobile games in the world.
Our first project is a new AAA mobile title in the Call of Duty franchise and we're looking for great talent from mobile, console and PC backgrounds passionate about their work, who share our belief in what AAA experiences on mobile can and should be. We're incredibly excited to build out our teams and get to work, and invite you to join us in making something special.

Your Profile

As a Sr. Manager, Mobile Operations at Activision Mobile, you will develop and execute operational plans across an array of studios focused on the next big title in the mobile market, providing guidance and support across financial, planning, staffing and people development operations.

You will be responsible for coordinating the contribution of operational plans from multiple studios to the delivery of key mobile titles, as well as monitoring the ongoing monthly execution and revisions against those plans, including but not limited to cross-product headcount allocation and recruiting efforts, P&L updates and product decisions that affect them, Learning & Development efforts across studios to develop critical disciplines across the company, and general sharing and improvement of best practices across the mobile team, all of Activision, and all of ABK. You will work to ensure that a complex and distributed development effort is optimized and in line with best company and industry practices. You will ensure consistent knowledge-sharing, learning, documentation, as well as improving tools and processes as necessary for all teams on the project to excel.
• Build, monitor and augment communication and operational processes between multiple studios co-developing critical titles
• Proactively and consistently evaluate operational and development process and efficiencies across the project, including augmenting and creating governance processes where necessary
• Track, evaluate, and report on project progress, including (but not limited to) weekly operational reports for key stakeholders across studios and central teams, and monthly governance reporting to project and Activision leadership teams
• Coordinate development assumptions into current P&L planning and update processes
• Manage overall headcount allocations and updates between multiple studios, to optimize hiring capabilities and team development (with Recruiting and Finance teams)
• With Finance, review and update project external contract spending, and reconcile with forecasts, providing overall project reforecasts quarterly
• With project and studio leads, evaluate plans and identify upcoming conflicts or resource constraints to meet project goals
• Coordinate operational planning with central Studio Ops team, including governance schedules, headcount planning and financial planning
• Improve existing (and develop new) processes for onboarding, purchasing, and contractual planning across studios engaged in co-developing critical titles
• Create L&D plans for participating studios to share information and develop critical disciplines within each studio to become fully-developed mobile entities (with HR and discipline leads)

Minimum Requirements:
• A passion for process, excellence and achievement
• Studio leadership experience, on market-leading or market-changing games
• Shipped multiple game titles in Sr. Management positions
• Strong management skills and focus on people development
• Breadth of experience in gaming - production, marketing, design
• Extensive experience with project planning and change management
• Strong critical-thinking, organization, time management and analytical skills.
• Ability to multitask under severe deadlines
• Work in a fast-paced environment that requires frequent shift in focus
• Experience in console/PC and mobile game development and marketing

Your Platform

Solid State Studio is an emerging team within Activision Publishing focusing on both publishing and live-operations for Call of Duty Mobile along with our new in-house studio dedicated to the development of AAA mobile titles. Designed around the singular focus of creating the best games in our space, ours is a mobile studio like no other. Developing in collaboration with Activision studios around the world, work on a new AAA mobile game in the Call of Duty franchise has begun.

It takes the industry's best talent to make entertainment history, and while we have world-class franchises, infrastructure and resources, our success comes from a driven and diverse team of people producing greatness together. We're looking for developers from mobile and PC backgrounds passionate about their work and who believe in realizing the potential of mobile gaming as much as we do.
Our World

We're highly collaborative, relaxed, and deadly serious about creating incredible entertainment for passionate players around the world. We approach mobile development as a craft, and our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got you covered!

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwmpnk-3-143-4-181-42 in your application.