Associate Outsource Director - Unannounced Game

Responsibilities

Create and drive the art outsource infrastructure and best practices needed to deliver best-in-class game content for a new, unannounced game.

Build and manage long-term relationships with art vendors to ensure an efficient, sustainable art pipeline.

Work closely with production to build and execute the strategic roadmap for all game materials.

Handle all external art quotes, budgets, and contracts in partnership with internal game leadership, legal, and finance.

As the project grows, build and manage a team of outsource supervisors to effectively scale all outsource pipelines and systems.

Facilitate a productive feedback loop between the internal team and outsource partners to enable an iterative path to quality content.

Exemplify reliability, accountability, and professionalism in all work-related interactions.

Minimum Requirements

10 years of outsource management experience or equivalent in a game development environment.

Demonstrated experience partnering with art leads and outsourcing managers to identify and nurture external development.

Experience creating and managing the workflow and pipeline of outsourced game assets.

Expert understanding of the cost and time required to deliver AAA game materials.

Skilled in managing communication of art team's feedback to external vendors and maintaining a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams.

Able to generate detailed documentation, visual references, examples, procedures, and engine requirements to support external vendors.

Experience managing outsource contracts, budgets, and delivery timelines.

Self-starter and driver, excellent communicator, and an amazing team-player.

Additional Knowledge & Skills

Expert level knowledge of the requirements and tools needed to ingest art assets into Unreal Engine.

A solid foundation in traditional art.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. ( a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ : MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industrys most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush and Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers 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;
• 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;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.