Senior Technical Product Manager - Tech Strategy, Technology

Job Title:

Senior Technical Product Manager - Tech Strategy, Central Technology

R027470

Your Mission

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.

What you bring to the table

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following 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 may include trunk stability, build and compile performance, editor/tool crash rates, presubmit validation, playtest stability, automated reporting, and cross-project regression tracking.
• At Call of Duty scale, small improvements in developer experience can materially improve development velocity, reduce execution risk, and increase content throughput. Reliable tools, stable workflows, and clear operational metrics allow teams to spend less time firefighting and more time building player-facing experiences. Ensure developer productivity and stability are measured, visible, and actionable across studios.
• 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 may include improving documentation quality, standardizing intake and review processes, reducing handoff friction, improving workflow maintainability, and expanding successful workflow patterns across additional content areas.
• Content creation is one of the largest drivers of development complexity and player-facing output. As teams support multiple titles, live seasons, and increasingly complex production needs, consistent and efficient workflows become critical to quality, schedule predictability, and content velocity. Help create the structure, visibility, and alignment needed to scale best practices across disciplines and studios.
• 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.
• Responsible for converting fragmented inputs across teams into a coherent view of initiative health. Potential outputs include 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.
• Cross-studio technology initiatives require alignment across teams that do not share the same reporting lines, tools, processes, or priorities. Strong KPI ownership and clear communication are essential to…