Game Producer, Operations Overwatch | Irvine, CA

Team Name: Overwatch

Game Producer, Live Operations (Contract) - Overwatch | Irvine, CA

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Soldiers, scientists, adventurers, oddities...producers?

The Overwatch team is looking for a Game Producer to help deliver world-class live experiences to millions of players around the globe.

As a Game Producer focused on Live Operations, you will partner with multidisciplinary teams to plan, coordinate, and deliver live game updates, seasonal content, events, gameplay improvements, and operational initiatives. You will help transform goals into actionable plans, drive alignment across teams, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure high-quality releases reach players on time.|

The ideal candidate is highly organized, an exceptional communicator, and thrives in a fast-paced live-service environment. You excel at bringing clarity to complex initiatives, facilitating collaboration across multiple disciplines, and helping teams navigate challenges while maintaining quality and delivery commitments. You are passionate about games, player experience, and the Overwatch universe.

This role offers a hybrid work week, with a mix of work-from-home and on-site days, based out of our Irvine studio.

Responsibilities:

• Drive production planning and execution for live game updates, seasonal releases, events, gameplay features, and operational initiatives.

• Partner with Design, Engineering, Art, QA, Publishing, Release Management, Marketing, and Operations teams to ensure successful delivery of player-facing content and features.

• Build and maintain project schedules, milestone plans, release roadmaps, dependency tracking, and status reporting.

• Coordinate release readiness activities and ensure teams are aligned on priorities, risks, milestones, and quality expectations.

• Facilitate communication across development teams, leadership, and global stakeholders to maintain transparency and alignment.

• Identify production risks, dependencies, and blockers early, and partner with teams to develop mitigation plans.

• Support live issue triage and ongoing service operations by coordinating discussions, driving follow-up actions, and helping teams resolve issues efficiently.

• Coordinate security audit requirements, release approvals, and operational processes associated with content releases.

• Partner with Content Operations and related teams to support deployments of marketing, configuration, and live game data.

• Facilitate production ceremonies including planning sessions, release reviews, retrospectives, and stakeholder updates.

• Continually evaluate workflows, processes, and team operating rhythms to improve delivery predictability, efficiency, and quality.

• Help teams adapt to shifting priorities while maintaining focus on delivering exceptional experiences for players.

Minimum Requirements:

• 4+ years of production, project management, program management, or related experience within game development or software development.

• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams including Engineering, Design, Art, QA, Publishing, Live Operations, or Release Management.

• Experience supporting a live-service game, online product, or regularly updated software experience.

• Proven ability to create and maintain schedules, milestones, dependency tracking, risk assessments, and project documentation.

• Strong understanding of game development pipelines and release processes.

• Demonstrated ability to identify issues proactively, faciliti

• Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience facilitating planning, prioritization, status reviews, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Ability to influence outcomes and drive…