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Program Management Intern
Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, CA, United States
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Greetings, students! We’re geared up here to offer another round of epic internship experiences in summer 2018. The internship program offers the opportunity to pause your studies for one summer and work side-by-side with Blizzard Entertainment employees in your area of interest, doing real work that oftentimes ends up in production. As such, we hold you to the same high standards as anybody else in the company.
Just like our gameplay experiences, Blizzard internships are a fully immersive experience. We want interns who are enthusiastic about what they want to do for a living and excited to come in every day to learn and contribute in this hyper-creative atmosphere. Being fully engaged with our team also means communicating effectively and maintaining an open mind - one that is receptive to feedback and able to adapt and grow. Your hobbies and interests can also play in your favor. Passion for technology, gaming, game development, and an in-depth knowledge of Blizzard games, products, and services will always be a plus with us, regardless of the position you’re applying for. Be passionate about who you are, be into our industry, and be willing to go all-in and embrace this opportunity to the fullest!
We are looking for a passionate and skilled individual to inspire gamers through the creation of the world’s best online game platform which enables them to engage in Blizzard’s legendary fantasy worlds. The Battle.net group handles a large number of projects that are not tied to individual games, but shared among all of Blizzard’s games past and future. This position will help define and execute the vision for various engineering systems, engineers, and game team stakeholders. You will interact with senior technical leaders and engineers for all games at Blizzard as well as senior managers within Battle.net. Our ideal candidate is a seasoned product or program manager. Prior experience managing large, complex, multi-year projects, the right balance of technical and soft skills, experience with large scale complex online services, a passion for building great services end-to-end, the organizational skills to drive quality across complex organizations, and the ability to partner with many different types of people.
Eligibility Requirements
• Currently enrolled in a college or university, or planning to enroll in Fall 2017
• Returning for at least one more semester or quarter following the Summer 2018 internship
• Able to work fulltime hours for 11 – 12 weeks at the Blizzard office indicated in this job posting between May 2018 – August 2018 or June 2018 – September 2018 (group dates depend on when you get out of school)
• Authorized to work in the US
Quest Objectives
• Responsible for managing the application lifecycle of platform features or enhancements from conceptualization, requirements gathering, product specification, implementation review, and release.
• Act as product owner for components of the platform to ensure that features address business needs and are developed on time.
• Act as champion for significant projects, programs, and business initiatives using demonstrated creativity and ingenuity.
• Provide motivation and direction to ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
• Gather, document, and organize business, functional, and any creative requirements for new projects from project stakeholders.
• Gather estimates from resources and create project documentation (goals, scope, and success metrics).
• Follow change management process to capture change requests, communicate impact, request stakeholder decisions, and execute changes if applicable.
• Work with other program managers to plan effective resource utilization.
• Coordinate, track, and manage the activities of project resources to ensure that project tasks are completed on time, within scope, and at acceptable quality.
• Identify, track, manage, and resolve project issues.
• Ensure that solutions are of acceptable quality.
Quest Items
• Resume and cover letter
WARNING! Applications that do not include all of the required materials will not be considered.