Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Title:Senior Technical Project Manager

Requisition ID:R027352

Job Description:

Job Title: Sr. Technical Project Manager, Data Analytics

Reporting To: Manager, Data Analytics

Department: Global Analytics / Data Insights

Location: Santa Monica, CA

As a Sr. Technical Project Manager supporting the Data Analytics team, you will serve as a key facilitator across high-priority initiatives spanning Call of Duty studios, Finance, Activision Publishing, and Data Insights. You will partner closely with analytics leads, studio stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to ensure work is clearly scoped, prioritized, and delivered with transparency and accountability.

This role is based in our Santa Monica, CA office and follows an onsite work schedule of 4 days a week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.

What You'll Do

Project Management & Delivery

• Champion strong PM fundamentals across the Data Analytics team; drive Jira best practices including ticket creation, sprint management, task triage, and workflow optimization

• Establish and align sprints with current Data Analytics goals; ensure all sprint tasks are fully scoped, tracked, and owned by the appropriate analyst or lead

• Drive work consistently from inception through integration across multiple concurrent studio, franchise, and publishing requests

• Generate and manage stakeholder roadmaps; triage deliverables as initiatives evolve and reprioritize in response to shifting needs

• Identify blockers early and develop risk mitigation plans in partnership with stakeholders, ICs, and leadership

• Coordinate with team leads to define MVPs, balancing speed-to-insight with available resources

Stakeholder Communication & Relationships

• Foster transparency, ownership, and accountability with studio stakeholders and Analytics Leads through clear, timely communication on in-progress work

• Proactively identify key studio POCs to maintain forward momentum on critical initiatives

• Build trust with game studios, publishing teams, and internal partners to serve as a reliable conduit of cross-functional knowledge

• Ensure studios are informed of incoming changes, features, and cross-franchise analytics initiatives requiring their coordination or participation

Team Culture & Process Improvement

• Champion documentation standards and repository improvements across Data Insights via Confluence updates and template development

• Support team learning and development programs; integrate PM and culture feedback to strengthen cross-functional collaboration

• Maintain and enhance Agile ceremonies — sprint planning, standups, retrospectives — and associated Jira tooling including automations and dashboards

What You Bring

Required

• 5+ years of technical project management experience supporting analytics, data science, or engineering teams in gaming, technology, or a comparable technical environment

• Undergraduate degree

• Strong command of Agile/Scrum and/or waterfall methodologies

• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence or comparable project management tools

• Excellent communication, prioritization, scheduling, and documentation skills

• Proven ability to operate independently and manage evolving priorities with minimal guidance

Preferred

• PMP, PMI, or comparable certification

• Experience supporting full game development lifecycles from alpha through release

• Familiarity with Databricks and Tableau

Our World

At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We’re 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 Hawk’s™ 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.

We’re not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we’re 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.

We’re 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?

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

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! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve 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 https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $92,920.00 - $171,814.00 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 role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In 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.