Executive Producer (Call of Duty)

Location: Santa Monica, California, United States; in-office four days per week. Working arrangements may evolve based on business needs.

Salary: $136,880–$253,260 annual base pay in the U.S.; incentive compensation may also be available.

Company

Activision develops, publishes, and distributes interactive entertainment, including the Call of Duty franchise and other major video game brands.

What you will do

• Manage production initiatives across internal and external studios, platforms, SKUs, and the full digital lifecycle of Call of Duty products.
• Build initiative requirements, goals, roadmaps, schedules, and operating plans while ensuring milestones, quality, budget, and delivery targets are met.
• Coordinate with development studios, publishing, marketing, PR, operations, sales, supply chain, licensors, contractors, monetization, and analytics teams.
• Guide product features, content, events, activations, and updates to support franchise and business objectives.
• Provide creative and executional direction, evaluate gameplay quality, identify risks and weaknesses, and drive improvements across releases.
• Lead, coach, and develop staff while establishing clear goals, accountability, collaboration, and continuous feedback.

Requirements

• 10+ years of gaming industry experience in a production role.
• 3+ years at Senior Producer level or above, with a proven record of delivering projects on quality, schedule, and budget.
• Experience shipping at least three high-quality titles on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
• Experience collaborating with internal teams and development studios across the video game industry.
• Strong business and financial acumen, risk-management skills, communication ability, and experience leading and mentoring people.
• Online FPS or First Person Shooter experience is preferred; a bachelor’s degree or higher is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with online FPS games, competitive FPS titles, monetization, esports, and gaming business models.
• Experience supporting trade shows and PR events.
• Ability to speak languages used across marketing, PR, sales, QA, customer service, localization, technology, monetization, and CRM functions.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment focused on collaboration, innovation, continuous feedback, support, and empowerment.
• Medical, dental, vision, healthcare spending, life, disability, and related insurance programs.
• 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, sick time, floating holidays, bereavement leave, and parental leave.
• Mental health, wellbeing, fitness, legal, identity protection, rental insurance, and game discount programs.
• Relocation assistance may be available if the company requires a geographic move for the role.