Principal Product Manager, Esports Ecosystem Operations| Overwatch | Irvine, CA

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Your Mission

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a Principal Product Manager to join the Overwatch Esports team in Irvine this role you will lead the integrated planning and delivery of global competitive programs team-partner operations live events and the systems that connect the esports ecosystem.

You will translate approved strategies into clear roadmaps operating plans budgets milestones and launch-readiness requirements. You will partner with professional teams players tournament operators vendors regional partners and teams across Blizzard to deliver high-quality consistent experiences for participants and partners. This is a senior individual contributor role with no formal people-management responsibility.

This role offers a hybrid work week with a mix of remote and on-site days based out of our Irvine CA studio. While hybrid is the standard arrangement candidates may also choose to work on-site full-time if preferred.

Domestic and international travel arerequired to support competitions and live events.

Responsibilities

This role includes but is not limited to the following responsibilities:

• Own the integrated operating plan and master calendar for Overwatch Esports connecting competitive programs live events team-partner initiatives broadcasts regional programs marketing moments and in-game activations.

• Translate approved priorities into roadmaps workback schedules milestones ownership models dependencies budgets risk plans and launch-readiness requirements.

• Lead the day-to-day operation of the Overwatch Esports team-partner program including communications benefits obligations deliverables performance tracking onboarding offboarding and feedback mechanisms.

• Lead execution of approved competition formats qualification pathways seasonal calendars rules policies and international events in partnership with competition operations teams and tournament operators.

• Serve as the product and operations lead for designated live events owning the team and player experience across travel visas accreditation practice operations hospitality onsite communications competition flow and participant services.

• Define and track the scope timelines service expectations acceptance criteria and performance of tournament operators production vendors regional partners and other external stakeholders.

• Maintain clear program documentation including responsibility matrices risk registers decision logs budget trackers status reports operating procedures escalation paths and contingency plans.

• Identify schedule scope budget resource partner and delivery risks early; evaluate tradeoffs recommend solutions and escalate material issues with clear context and next steps.

• Own day-to-day budget tracking forecasts purchase-order and invoice status variance reporting and concise program-health reporting for assigned esports programs.

• Build alignment across Overwatch development publishing marketing broadcast live events finance legal partnerships communications analytics regional teams and external operators while providing functional guidance to vendors contractors and junior contributors.

Minimum Requirements

• 13 years of experience in product management program management esports sports gaming live entertainment league operations partner management or related field.

• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex partner-facing programs with multiple concurrent workstreams international scope and significant cross-functional dependencies.

• Experience translating strategy and objectives into roadmaps operating plans schedules milestones budgets risk plans decision frameworks and measurable deliverables.

• Experience working directly with professional teams players tournament operators vendors regional partners or comparable external stakeholders.

• Strong knowledge of competitive operations tournament structures rules administration scheduling competitive integrity participant services and live-event delivery.

• Experience leading international events or programs involving travel visas accreditation practice operations production hospitality and on-site issue resolution.

• Strong financial and operational judgment including experience with budgets forecasts vendor scopes purchase orders invoices capacity planning and resource tradeoffs.

• Excellent written verbal relationship-building conflict-resolution and senior-ready communication skills with the ability to influence decisions and drive accountability without direct authority.

Extra Points

• Experience working for a game publisher esports organization tournament operator sports league or live-event producer.

• Deep familiarity with Overwatch its competitive ecosystem and its global player communities.

• Experience operating team-partnership incentive revenue-sharing or ecosystem-development programs.

• Experience working across Korea Japan China Europe North America or the Middle East including across multiple languages cultures and time zones.

• Professional fluency in Korean or Japanese with Korean preferred.

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 Xbox PlayStation Nintendo Switch iOS and Android.

Our World
Activision Blizzard Inc. is one of the worlds 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 196 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 committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position please email your request to General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

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;
• 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 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.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting the U.S. the standard base pay range for this role is $107350.00 - $198630.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately your specific range and offer will be based on several factors including relevant experience performance and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this roles range details for your local geography during the hiring addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates new hire compensation is negotiable.