Talent Intelligence Lead

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 a Talent Intelligence Lead you will be using internal and external people data, determine the strategic workforce plan (e.g. build, borrow, buy) which ensures we have the talent we need to execute on our business priorities

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

Know what we have:

In conjunction with Talent Intelligence and People Analytics teams, develop a basic understanding of Call of Duty's talent supply

Help drive roll-out of a cohesive skills taxonomy and assessment, up-leveling view of talent supply from basic understanding of who we have, to advanced understanding of what they can do

Know what's out there:

Map external labor market to clarify our relative, competitive position and pinpoint high-value sources of talent

Know what we need to do:

In pace with business cycle, work across corporate and franchise business, finance, and HR teams to align business priorities and demand with understanding of talent supply to surface critical gaps and levers to address

As needed and in more ad-hoc fashion, support resolution of key talent supply questions (e.g. attrition hot-spots and what to do about them)

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• 3+ years experience in strategic HR and/or organization consulting, with focus on talent intelligence and/or People Analytics; in particular experience building predictive models using internal and external HR data
• Experience working with large data sets, particularly in HR and skills
• Experience managing high-stakes project that are strategic in nature
• Track record of positive engagement with business stakeholders at all levels and at scale
• Analytical and quantitative skills
• Knowledge of IO psychology, assessment, and/or skills fundamentals
• Ability to work in Tableau
• Rigorous problem structuring and problem-solving ability
• Advanced organizational science or data science degree (preferred)

Extra Points:
• Can translate between business and quantitative language and problem solving techniques
• Can engage with senior stakeholders and with high-level, strategic content
• Can collaborate across enterprise functions (e.g. with central People Analytics team)
Our World
Our mission, to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment has never been more important. Through communities rooted in our video game franchises we enable hundreds of millions of people in 190 countries to experience joy, thrill and achievement. We enable social connections through the lens of fun and we foster purpose and a sense of accomplishment through healthy competition. Like sport, but with greater accessibility, our players can find purpose and meaning through competitive gaming. Video games, unlike any other social or entertainment media, have the ability to break down the barriers that can inhibit tolerance and understanding. As a business we have an extraordinary track record of delivering stakeholder value for over 30 years. We are a member of the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500. Our enduring franchises are some of the world's most popular, including Activision's Call of Duty® and Crash Bandicoot™, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, and King's Candy Crush™, Bubble Witch™, and Farm Heroes™. Our sustained success has enabled the company – through its support of the Call of Duty Endowment – to help find employment for over 80,000 veterans. Learn more information about Activision Blizzard and its world of epic entertainment on the company's website, www.activisionblizzard.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-roe29p-18-220-81-106-42 in your application.