Senior Technical Product Manager - Tech Strategy, Central Technology

Your mission as Senior Technical Product Manager – Tech Strategy is to serve as a strategic partner for Activision’s game-development studios in the areas of online services, engine tools, graphics, systems engineering, security, and infrastructure. You will support every phase of the development pipeline—from build to launch—by collaborating with studios on technology and architecture best practices that help build franchises and expand the Activision IP portfolio. You will also act as a bridge to the publishing organization, aligning game technical development with 1st-party management, analytics, product management, marketing, and public relations.

Responsibilities

• Developer Experience, Productivity & Stability
  • 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.
  • Identify workflow friction, measure developer productivity, improve visibility into stability issues, and help 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.
  • Example areas: trunk stability, build and compile performance, editor/tool crash rates, presubmit validation, playtest stability, automated reporting, and cross-project regression tracking.
  • Day-to-day cross-functional stakeholders: Central Technology, studio engineering teams, tools teams, artists and content creators, QA, production, analytics, build/release, online services, studio leadership, and publishing leadership.
• Content Creation Workflow Optimization
  • 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.
  • Document current-state workflows, identify pain points, align teams on target-state processes, and help 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.
  • Example work: improving documentation quality, standardizing intake and review processes, reducing handoff friction, improving workflow maintainability, and expanding successful workflow patterns across additional content areas.
  • Day-to-day cross-functional stakeholders: Studio production, art directors, content discipline leads, tools teams, technical artists, engineering, QA, Central Technology, documentation owners, franchise leadership, and publishing stakeholders.
• KPI Ownership, Dashboards & Cross-Functional Alignment
  • Establish and maintain the operating rhythm, dashboards, and reporting artifacts needed to manage complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and studios.
  • Define success metrics, build reporting structures, track action items, surface risks, and prepare executive-ready updates that clearly communicate progress, blockers, ownership, and recommended next steps.
  • Convert fragmented inputs across teams into a coherent view of initiative health through weekly KPI updates, executive summaries, action-item tracking, roadmap status, dashboard requirements, adoption metrics, and leadership readouts.
  • Day-to-day cross-functional stakeholders: Central Technology leadership, studio leadership, production, engineering, QA, analytics, finance where applicable, tools teams, business operations, franchise leadership, and executive stakeholders.

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 proficiency 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Ability to perform as the connective layer between technical teams and business leadership, ensuring complex issues are communicated clearly.
• Proficient in translating ambiguous technical and production challenges into clear business context, product requirements, prioritization frameworks, and actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

About the team

Activision Central Tech supports development studios and their titles through seven specialized teams: big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming, and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, and Japan. Most teams combine engineering and research talent, allowing us to balance immediate title support with forward-looking innovation.

Benefits

• 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 (supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, etc.).
• Relocation assistance for eligible candidates.

Pay

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $94,580 – $174,988 annually. Range may vary based on relevant experience, performance, and work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive compensation.