Title: Associate Producer - Call of Duty

Job Family: Production

Reports to: Producer

Location: Santa Monica

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Activision Blizzard, headquartered in Santa Monica, CA, is the premier worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software. Activision Blizzard's portfolio includes such best-selling video game franchises as Activision Publishing's Call of Duty, Skylanders, Spider-Man, X-Men, James Bond, and Transformers, in addition to Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft, Diablo, Warcraft and the #1 subscription based massively multi-player online role-playing game, World of Warcraft.

Activision is seeking an Associate Producer to join our Call of Duty production team.  Associate Producers are generally responsible for the day-to-day management of entire sections of the game's production with a key focus in project coordination and execution. These sections can be the management of particular work pipelines, including supporting development requests, legal clearances, external vendor management, user testing, QA, ratings board submissions, PR and PR asset support or localization.

Responsibilities:

Coordinates in-house and/or external resources to meet production schedules

Identifies weaknesses, bottlenecks, and risks in the schedule and troubleshoots communication and schedule dependency problems with the Producer and Leads.

Maintains project documentation

Manages development team's material requests

Tracks build deliveries

Organizes and prepares materials for focus tests

Resolves hardware/software issues

Manages SKU submission (TRC, TCR, etc) and QA feedback (Activision QA)

Manages localization issues such as translation and territorial content guidelines

Records meeting minutes and translates them into coherent task lists

Supervises onsite quality assurance staff

A catch-all for any production tasks that fall through the cracks

Requirements:

The title of Associate Producer will be based on level of industry experience and a review of the skill set needed for a particular set of tasks

Minimum of 2 years game development experience or production experience

Experience shipping at least 1 console project, for Xbox 360 and/or PS3, from start to finish

PC and hand-held experience a plus

Passionate about games and game development, familiarity with Call of Duty a must

Proactive and Self Starter with good problem solving skills

Excellent communication and organizational skills; strong multi-tasking responsibilities

Strong working knowledge of Excel, MS Word and other project management programs

Familiarity with Max and Photoshop a plus

Activision is an equal opportunity employer

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