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Senior Technical Product Manager - Tech Strategy, Central Technology

United States of America, Santa Monica Employment contract 80800.00 - 149400.00 USD / Year · Job Posted June 10, 2026
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The Senior Technical Product Manager-Tech Strategy will be part of the Central Technology team, which serves as a strategic partner for game development studios in the areas of online services, engine tools, graphics, systems engineering, security, and infrastructure. We support all aspects of the development process from building pipeline to launch, collaborating with studios on best practices in technology and architecture to help build franchises and the Activision IP portfolio. All the while, we also serve as a bridge to the publishing organization to align game technical development with 1st party management, analytics, product management, marketing, and public relations.

Job Responsibility

  • Own product strategy and execution support for initiatives that improve the day-to-day experience of engineers, artists, QA, and content creators across the development ecosystem
  • identifying workflow friction, measuring developer productivity, improving visibility into stability issues, and helping teams prioritize the highest-impact improvements across tools, build systems, test pipelines, crash trends, regressions, and live-development workflows
  • define KPI frameworks, develop dashboards, analyze trends, and partner with technical teams to turn recurring pain points into structured product opportunities
  • Support product planning and cross-functional execution for initiatives that streamline content creation workflows across disciplines such as maps, operators, weapons, environments, lighting, VFX, and related production pipelines
  • documenting current-state workflows, identifying pain points, aligning teams on target-state processes, and helping establish scalable standards for content creation across studios
  • partner with studios and technical teams to develop roadmaps, define owners, gather requirements, track adoption, and measure workflow impact through qualitative feedback and quantitative KPIs
  • Establish and maintain the operating rhythm, dashboards, and reporting artifacts needed to manage complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and studios
  • defining success metrics, building reporting structures, tracking action items, surfacing risks, and preparing executive-ready updates that clearly communicate progress, blockers, ownership, and recommended next steps
  • be responsible for converting fragmented inputs across teams into a coherent view of initiative health
  • weekly KPI updates, executive summaries, action item tracking, roadmap status, dashboard requirements, adoption metrics, and leadership readouts across developer productivity, workflow efficiency, and stability initiatives

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Technical Product Management
  • Experience analyzing development pipeline data, user experience surveys, workflow adoption, stability trends, and operational metrics
  • Experience working with Technical Data, and proficient with SQL
  • Background ensuring cross-studio alignment on shared technologies, processes, tooling standards, reporting practices, and workflow improvements that can scale across multiple titles, teams, and development disciplines
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in technical product management or a closely related discipline
  • Proficient in defining problem statements, success metrics, roadmap prioritization, and measurable outcomes
  • Cross functional experience with engineering, production, tools, QA, analytics, studio leadership, and publishing stakeholders
  • The ability to perform as the connective layer between technical teams and business leadership, ensuring complex issues are communicated clearly
  • Proficient translating ambiguous technical and production challenges into clear business context, product requirements, prioritization frameworks, and actionable recommendations for senior leadership

What we offer

  • 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
  • relocation assistance
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