TITLE: Senior Cinematics TD

REQUIREMENTS: 3 years of experience in the job or 3 years of experience as a Technical Director, Department TD, Pipeline Developer, or a related occupation.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Any suitable combination of education, training, &/or experience is acceptable.

JOB DUTIES: Responsible for developing, modifying, deploying, and debugging software. Duties involve problem-solving, communication, and collaboration. Drives the technical vision of the surfacing and look development disciplines. Leads a team of developers. Uses techniques and technologies relating to CG pipelines and workflows as well as third-party computer graphics programs such as Katana, Mari, Renderman, and Redshift. Teach, guide, and educate surfacing artists. Provide practical feedback on the surfacing pipeline and offer potential solutions on how to improve them.

Salary range: $170,000/year to $243,130/year

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#23280/contact K. Finnsson for an appointment.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
1 Blizzard Way
Irvine, CA 92618

Jobsite: Irvine, CA (Full-time position)

TITLE: User Researcher

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Information, Economics and Visual Communication Design, or related field or foreign equivalency.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Any suitable combination of education, training, &/or experience is acceptable.

JOB DUTIES: Oversee the design and execution of study activities, ensuring quality standards are maintained and built upon overtime. Communicate with project collaborators generating consensus and prioritizing research projects. Collaborate with junior researchers to ensure they complete highly impactful research initiatives. Maintain the research project roadmap aligned with franchise research needs. Evangelize User Research philosophy and share knowledge of methods and best practices with project partners. Identify process and communication improvements for the field. Ensure project consistency with departmental process on how to generate and formulate workable feedback. Liaise with Design, Production, Marketing, Analytics, and other teams to align research efforts. Complete user studies and activities. Carry out research using several methods including, but not limited to, usability testing, UX, balance testing, focus groups, interviews, surveys, heuristic evaluations, card sorts, exploratory research, and field studies. Leverage and suggest new data sources to contextualize analysis and recommendations. Provide summarized research directly to the development teams for discussion and future implementation. Provide design suggestions based on observation, research, and expertise. Coordinate test strategy and design, for public and internal playtests. Maintain detailed records of study details.

Salary range: $107,640/year to $142,600/year

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#23279/contact K. Finnsson for an appointment.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
1 Blizzard Way
Irvine, CA 92618

Jobsite: Irvine, CA (Full-time position)

TITLE: Data Analyst, Analytics

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Machine Learning, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, or related field

JOB DUTIES: Address business questions through holistic planning including clarifying the question, developing hypotheses, and building analytic structure to address the hypotheses. Write effective queries that return results accurately and are ready to scale for the future. Collaborate with Game Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and co-developer partners to deliver business impact, effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences and translate recommendations into efficient action plans for senior management and department leaders. Design, execute, and analyze AB tests efficiently and effectively, collaborating with multifunction teams to maximize the impact and learning of the tests.

Salary range: $103,500/year to $142,600/year

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#23247/contact K. Finnsson for an appointment.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
1 Blizzard Way
Irvine, CA 92618

Jobsite: Irvine, CA (Full-time position)