About the role
Department and Location
- Department: Activision Mobile Studio/Solid State Studios
- Location: Santa Monica, CA
- Work Schedule: Onsite, four days per week
Mission
Solid State Studios is the mobile publishing and development arm of Activision. This role supports an unannounced mobile title based on an established, world-class franchise. The candidate will work directly with an external developer to ensure the game arrives on quality, on time, and on budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in project planning and development
- Manage the bug database
- Coordinate asset reviews with legal teams at the direction of production leadership
- Work closely with Developers, QA, and other partner groups to supervise submission of SKUs to first parties
- Contribute creative feedback to production team leadership to help ensure product is meeting quality and feature goals
- Organize and run user tests with both consumers and internal partners
- Participate in writing the project plans, supporting/proposal documents, and progress reports
- Organize, attend, and keep records for production meetings
- Manage build schedules, deliveries, and distribution
- Hire, contract, and manage 3rd party vendors
- Serve as a secondary point of contact for cross-functional groups including Brand Management, Marketing, and PR
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum of 2 years experience in project management and/or team management in the video game industry
- Excellent communication skills
- Resourcefulness, curiosity, and ability to take initiative
- Ability to work with structure, rigor, and attention to detail
- Passionate about video games
- Shipped at least one live operated/free to play project in the video game industry
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, or other project management software
- Fluency in AI-driven automated processes for a variety of production workflows, such as bug database management and asset approvals
Bonus Qualifications
- A degree in project, production, or operations management
Compensation
- Standard Base Pay Range: $24.43 - $45.19 Hourly
- Additional Compensation: Eligible for incentive compensation (not guaranteed)
Benefits
- Health and Insurance: Medical, dental, vision, health savings account (HSA), health reimbursement account (HRA), healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- Financial: 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
- Leave: Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Wellbeing: Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs
- Perks: Free and discounted games, variety of voluntary benefit programs (supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, etc.)
- Relocation: Eligibility for relocation assistance if the Company requires a geographic move