Independent Producer Contractor

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Activision Publishing is currently looking for an Executive Producer to join the Call of Duty franchise production team. As Executive Producer, you will manage production initiatives on one or multiple projects across various platforms from both a business and publishing perspective. You will partner with both internal and external studios in a wide range of areas to achieve franchise initiatives as well as attain financial and schedule goals. ensure milestones are delivered on-time and the game meets quality standards; help maintain creative vision; and work closely with all developers and cross-functional groups to deliver initiatives, activations, and digital content to meet all project and franchise goals. This role will continuously iterate on best practices across all the franchise games, adapting with the business.

You will be a project leader, and work in with multiple cross-functional groups, ranging from Activision executive leadership to development studios, and use your experience on the front lines to improve production and organizational processes, as well as drive key franchise initiatives with both developers and internal department leads.

This position is based in our Santa Monica, California office and follows an in-office work model of four days per week. Manage and track game development with internal / external studios across all SKUs of production initiatives tied to a mainline product and its digital life-cycle.
Support the creation, development, and execution of production initiatives, projects, pathways, and overall plan; continue to provide supervision and support through full operations life-cycle
Collaborate with business partners and studios to provide players with a steady stream of compelling features, content, and events
Partner with monetization and analytics teams to understand the game’s status and plan updates accordingly
Act as primary point of contact with Game Development Studios, 1st Parties, Marketing, PR, Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, Licensors, and external contractors across project initiatives
Partner with Marketing to execute plans for the product lines, brands, and lines of business
Partner with Developers to ensure specific game features are tied to overall title positioning and goals
recognize and reward employees for strong performance
Provide creative and executional direction to development studios to improve product quality and drive franchise innovation. Ensure the titles and franchise maintain or exceed creative and technical objectives with each release
Proven Executive Producer with either internal development or publishing experience who delivers projects to quality, on time and budget.

• experience with First Person Shooters or Online FPS preferred with 3+ years of experience at Senior Producer level or above.
• The ability to identify risks early and often and suggest mitigation strategies that are thought through and take into account multiple paths to a solution.
• You are knowledgeable about games and trends in the industry ranging from other competitive FPS titles, Monetization, E-Sports and other ways games are expanding beyond the core mainline experience.

You speak other languages; specifically, the languages of marketing, PR, Sales, QA, Customer Service, Localizations, Tech, Monetization, CRM, etc. Producing the game is only part of the job. Experience effectively collaborating with internal teams and development studios within the video game industry. You will be the main point of contact for one of the biggest entertainment franchises in the world and requires best in class and timely communications across all mediums (emails, phone, meetings, presentations, etc.)
Gamer Who Knows How to Make a Game Great
You are passionate about making video games.
Experience identifying the strengths and weakness in a game and knowing when to marshal resources to lean into strengths or address
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