Studio: Activision Blizzard
Job Opening: Production & Project Management Internship
Location: United States of America
Type: Internship
Responsibilities:
- Organize and monitor projects from beginning to end.
- Help the lead product management define and document specific features to be built.
- Keep leadership and partners apprised of status.
- In partnership with your team, leverage creativity and problem-solving to iterate on development processes.
- Create transparency, predictability, and consistency within your team.
Internship Opportunities:
Production Intern: join one of our production teams as they support our games in real time. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who enjoys problem solving and fast paced environments. In this role you’ll coordinate with Producers, Artists, Engineers, Designers, and members of QA. Additionally, you’ll assist in tracking of tasks, document decisions, and assist the production team with administrative requests, archive game assets in a centralized system.
- In depth experience with project management showcased through school projects on previous employment.
- Knowledge of Excel and Jira or other project management software.
- Experience leading a development project.
- You are familiar with Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies, specifically Scrum.
- You possess strong communication and interpersonal skills to work closely with many internal and external groups.
- You are passionate about video game development.
Project Management Intern: We are looking for a project management intern to organize and coordinate team projects with one of our core teams. As a Project Manager, you will act as a champion for the features your team develops and help to keep them on track towards delivery.
- Understanding of project planning concepts, including waterfall, agile / scrum.
- Basic knowledge of planning and tracking tools such Smartsheets, Project, JIRA, Confluence.
- Skills for breaking down complex problems into manageable tasks.
- Ability to work with multiple collaborators, understand and document requirements, and track and report progress across projects.
- Keep leadership and partners apprised of status.
- In partnership with your team, leverage creativity and problem-solving to iterate on development processes.
- Create transparency, predictability, and consistency within your team.
Localization Producer Intern: As an Localization Producer Intern, you are the champion of your assigned Blizzard Localized products, acting as the hub of information and localization pipeline design in order to deliver on our stakeholder’s needs via collaboration with our global localization operations team. In this role you’ll cross collaborate with game developers, marketing, legal, and other requestors to provide consultation; plan and manage localization projects; design and implement efficient and scalable localization frameworks; and make independent decisions while assessing risks. If you’re passionate about localization, constantly striving for excellence and possess the spark to continue to challenge the status quo in our industry, we’re looking for you to join our team!
- You are a master communicator; you know how to adjust your communication according to your audience and have great negotiation skills
- You are strategic; you know how to step back and look at the bigger picture to ensure individual and team efforts are focused and impactful
- You’re curious; you’re eager to learn new skills and tools and seek to always ask the right questions
- You’re courageous; you are not afraid to challenge yourself and others to do the right thing and create accountability
- You’re responsible: you are methodical, results driven and will do what it takes to get things done and deliver
- You’re an excellent project juggler; you can handle multiple complex projects and support a variety of stakeholders without dropping the ball
