Associate Production Director

Associate Production Director

Location: Irvine United States

Team Name:

Cinematics

Job Title:

Associate Production Director - Temp (SFD / Cinematics)

Requisition ID:

R027099

Job Description:

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an experienced, highly organized professional, with a managerial and production background in animation, VFX or game development. They should exhibit outstanding communication skills and have proven experience managing and building teams.

The Associate Production Director will work with the cinematic project producers and related department leaders, to ensure the successful production of cinematics for the studio. They will act as the team manager, as well as strategist, and collaborator, across the various teams both inside and outside of the Story and Franchise Development department.

You will be well-versed in leading projects through an animation pipeline, experienced at mentoring a team, and able to work well in a fluid production environment.

Primary duties will include oversight of all cinematic trailers and promotional shorts, ensuring projects are produced efficiently and at the quality expected from Blizzard's cinematics team. While the production of the content will generally be the responsibility of those reporting to this position, the Associate Production Director will facilitate and help advance production while managing and improving the skill set of the individual producers.

This role is a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

This is a 12-month temporary term.

Responsibilities

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Supporting the efforts of the cinematic production team
• Ensure projects run smoothly in partnership with surrounding leadership and by supporting an inclusive, highly collaborative environment
• Partner with cross-departmental leaders to plan and assign project leadership teams, taking into consideration the fluctuating demands of production, available talent, team composition, and creative strengths
• Establish and help to maintain relationships with key game team personnel, the publishing team and any other stakeholders
• Develop and help to maintain solid relationships with outsourcing vendors, negotiate deal terms and lend oversight to all outsourced cinematics

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• 10+ years of leadership experience in game development/film/animation or equivalent work experience
• Proven experience managing multiple projects/priorities and deadlines
• Demonstrated experience in resource planning across multiple projects

Knowledge & Skills

• Successful track record of developing and leading teams of 5-10 people
• Expertise in leading teams and guiding outsourcing partners
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Existing knowledge of Blizzard Entertainment games, characters or existing lore a plus, but not required

Key Attributes

• Ability to collaborate closely with surrounding departments to ensure success of all projects
• A love for storytelling, movies, and video games

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry's most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

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.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $124,400.00 - $230,300.00 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.