Senior Product Manager

Job Description

Founded in 2002, Infinity Ward is the original studio behind the Call of Duty® franchise. The titles developed by Infinity Ward have won more than 200 ''Game of the Year'' awards and 100 ''Editor's Choice'' awards, among many other industry accolades. Some of our previous titles include: Call of Duty®: Ghosts, Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare and most recently, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare.

Infinity Ward has opened a brand new studio in Austin, TX. The studio will work on creating new and innovative experiences for Call of Duty® and create innovative technology to power them. Our studio provides a safe, trusting, and empowering environment to unleash your creativity and help make the extraordinary.

Infinity Ward is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at https://www.infinityward.com/, on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/InfinityWard/, and @InfinityWard on Twitter.

Your Mission

As a Sr. Product Manager you will support the design and live-service vision across multiple Call of Duty features and products produced and contributed by the new Infinity Ward Austin studio. You will give data-driven insights and designs to maximize engagement and retention in a player-focused live environment.

Reporting to the Game Director, you will partner with various external and internal partners at Activision and Infinity Ward Austin to ensure the product strategy, creative vision, and player experience are fully optimized, while looking for new opportunities to grow player engagement.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Drive Strategy and Innovation - Look for new critical initiatives to drive and lead to implementation in the game.
• Event Strategy and Management - Help support events and come up with new ideas for how to deliver future events in COD.
• Business Opportunity Analysis - Find opportunities and develop supporting materials with quantitative and qualitative-driven insights, advocating for creative and innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Competitive Intelligence - Understand how different games operate their live services to help inform some of our strategic decisions.
• Data Analytics Initiatives - Find new ideas to A/B test to further the growth of the COD live services ecosystem.
• Performance Tracking - Monitor performance of live services promotions and initiatives to understand run rates / trends to help continue to grow COD live services.
• Be The Product Expert - Understand the player journey and create best-in-class messaging that lives both in-game and out, ensuring key selling features and product info is represented accurately in market with a strategic lens towards improving comprehension, conversion, and player satisfaction.
• Player Champion - embody the ''player'' view internally, driving a fan first viewpoint across the org and post-launch product plans; ensure that the player's voice helps drive the direction of the franchise.

Player Profile

Experience
• 5+ years of experience in product management, preferably from gaming (console, PC, or mobile); entertainment; technology; or consumer products.
• Experience in feature or system design, virtual economy management, and live operations.

Knowledge & Skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop and shape an existing product by continuously seeking out and pursuing new opportunities.
• Data-driven attitude that is able to understand our player base and market trends and translate them into business opportunities.
• Proven ability to generate innovative ideas and solve complex problems while staying true to Infinity Ward's core values.
• Familiarity with behavioral economic concepts, data analysis, UX/UI, game systems design, and A/B testing.
• Ability to balance a data-driven attitude with creative problem solving, while maintaining a player-focused perspective.
• Exceptional business judgment with a strategic and analytical attitude.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – ability to articulate complex ideas and influence others.

Key Attributes
• Ability to be a self-starter and individual contributor on the team
• Ability to communicate well, in both small and large groups
• Comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback
• A deep passion for gaming and entertainment.
• Solid understanding of the latest gaming systems and industry trends.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience is required.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to multi-task with demonstrated performance of managing multiple projects at once.

''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! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.''

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 $80,800.00 - $149,400.00 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-rzj5v2-3-16-76-43-42 in your application.