Production Director - Overwatch | Irvine, CA
About the role
The Overwatch team is seeking an experienced and visionary Production Director to lead production strategy and execution for one of Blizzard Entertainment's flagship franchises. As Production Director, you will serve as a key leader responsible for shaping how Overwatch delivers exceptional experiences to millions of players worldwide. You will drive organizational effectiveness, operational excellence, and execution across multiple development initiatives while partnering closely with Game Leadership to help define and achieve the franchise's long-term goals. This role requires a strategic leader who can scale organizations, develop leaders, build sustainable development practices, and align teams around a shared vision. You will be responsible for empowering a large cross-disciplinary organization while ensuring the franchise can successfully deliver ambitious content plans, live-service initiatives, gameplay innovations, and future growth opportunities. The ideal candidate combines deep production expertise, exceptional leadership capabilities, and a passion for building world-class teams and player experiences.
Responsibilities
- Establish and drive the production vision, strategy, and operating model for the Overwatch franchise.
- Lead and develop an organization of production leaders, managers, and producers while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with senior game leadership to define franchise priorities, strategic initiatives, resource investment plans, and long-term development goals.
- Drive operational excellence across multiple development teams and initiatives, ensuring alignment between creative vision, business objectives, and execution realities.
- Influence and guide organizational design decisions to ensure teams are structured effectively to meet evolving development needs.
- Oversee portfolio-level planning, forecasting, prioritization, dependency management, and risk mitigation across interconnected workstreams.
- Establish scalable production frameworks, development methodologies, and operational processes that enable sustainable delivery at Blizzard quality.
- Partner with discipline leaders to develop staffing strategies, succession planning efforts, and organizational growth initiatives.
- Ensure leadership teams have clear visibility into delivery forecasts, operational risks, staffing considerations, milestone readiness, and business impacts.
- Champion data-informed decision making through production metrics, delivery insights, forecasting, and organizational health indicators.
- Foster strong partnerships across Design, Engineering, Art, Product, QA, Publishing, Operations, Analytics, and external partners.
- Lead organizational change initiatives and help teams successfully navigate shifting priorities, evolving player expectations, and development challenges.
- Support the successful delivery of live-service content, gameplay features, seasonal initiatives, major releases, and long-term franchise investments.
- Champion a healthy, inclusive, and sustainable development culture that enables teams to perform at their highest level.