Lead Technical Program Manager Activision

Your Mission

Publishings Data and Analytics Engineering team builds and operates the data products pipelines and integrations that turn trusted data into action across our Studios Analytics Product Finance and Marketing Technology ecosystem. We are looking for a Lead Technical Project Manager to serve as the connective layer across these disciplines - bringing structure to ambiguous problems translating business priorities into executable technical plans and driving complex initiatives from intake through launch.

This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who combines strong program leadership with practical data and software fluency. You will partner closely with data engineers analytics engineers product and business leaders and platform teams to align priorities manage dependencies resolve issues and ensure our solutions are reliable scalable and useful.

This role is based in our Los Angeles (Pen Factory) office and follows an onsite work schedule of Monday through Thursday. Work arrangements may change at the companys discretion to meet business needs.

What You Bring to the Table

Priorities can shift quickly in a fast-paced environment so this role includes but is not limited to the following responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end planning and delivery across a portfolio of data activation analytics engineering and data platform integration initiatives.
• Serve as the program lead across Studios Analytics Finance Marketing Technology and engineering teamsclarifying goals requirements ownership dependencies and success measures.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape roadmaps sequence work and align team capacity with business priorities and customer commitments.
• Perform SQL-based validation or optimization and first-pass troubleshooting to accelerate issue resolution and route deeper investigation effectively.
• Drive execution across concurrent workstreams by managing milestones risks trade-offs decisions release coordination migrations and operational readiness.
• Use technical expertise to understand data flows schemas APIs models and system integrations.
• Establish scalable operating mechanisms for intake prioritization status reporting decision logs documentation service ownership and governance-related workflows.
• Communicate progress risks and trade-offs clearly to engineering teams business partners and senior leaders tailoring the level of detail to the audience.
• Define and track meaningful outcomesincluding adoption data quality reliability timeliness and delivery predictabilityand use retrospectives to improve how teams work together.

Player Profile

• 7 years of technical program product or project management experience working directly with data software platform or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Prior hands-on experience as a data analyst/engineer technical analyst or another technical individual contributor is strongly preferred; equivalent technical depth is also welcome.
• Working proficiency with SQL including the ability to inspect schemas validate outputs investigate data quality issues and govern access.
• Practical understanding of the data lifecycle including ingestion transformation orchestration batch and streaming pipelines APIs semantic or metrics layers and downstream activation.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional programs across multiple teams and organizations while navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to translate technical concepts constraints and trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Exceptional prioritization time management and follow-through with a bias toward action and the ability to distinguish urgent work from important long-term investments.
• Experience with Jira Confluence Slack M365 or similar collaboration tools and comfort working across Scrum Kanban or hybrid delivery models.
• AI fluency including experience supporting AI/ML programs or using AI-assisted tools to improve planning documentation QA incident analysis or self-service data access.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.

Extra Points

• Experience with modern data platforms and tooling such as Git lakehouse or cloud data warehouse architectures dbt Airflow Spark Kafka data observability catalogs or governance platforms.
• Experience with data activation or Marketing Technology ecosystems including customer data platforms reverse ETL identity resolution campaign platforms experimentation or measurement and conversion APIs.
• Experience supporting Finance enterprise reporting privacy- or compliance-sensitive workflows or distributed multi-studio environments.
• Demonstrated portfolio-level leadership and mentoring experience for Lead consideration.
• PMP Certified Scrum Master PRINCE2 or similar certification.

Your Platform

Headquartered in Santa Monica Activision brings together teams across Marketing PR Sales Supply Chain HR IT Legal Facilities Finance and other disciplines to create exceptional entertainment experiences.

Our World

At Activision we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. Were driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty Crash Bandicoot Tony Hawks Pro Skater and Guitar Hero. As a leading worldwide developer publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products our press start is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative fun thrilling and engaging entertainment experiences.

Were not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; were forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate creative and diverse teams within our organization.

Were in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater this could be your opportunity to level up.

Ready to Activate Your Future

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered! 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 the U.S. the standard base pay range for this role is $114080.00 - $211048.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately your specific range and offer will be based on several factors including relevant experience performance and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this roles range details for your local geography during the hiring addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates new hire compensation is negotiable.