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Your Platform
Activision, Blizzard and King play a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.
Your Mission
As the BISO for King, your mission will be to create meaningful engagement with our Business Unit and Technology Partners. We do this by aligning strategic initiatives, sharing material changes, and operating with transparency. This person will work with IT, studios, and the Shared Tech Organization to understand their ABK Information Security needs. This person will be instrumental in sharing the services offered by ABK Information Security and soliciting feedback regarding initiatives that we should start, stop, or continue to provide.
Priorities can often change in a fast- paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
Able to establish direct lines of communication with ABK leaders.
Recognized ability to operate in highly matrixed organizations.
Demonstrates the ability to communicate highly technical security concepts to a wide range of recipients with various technical acumen.
Proven ability to develop relationships, understand the unique challenges of each business unit, and develop a shared vision for how security can help meet their business needs.
Able to influence key stakeholders, gain traction on strategic security initiatives and progress adoption of those security initiatives.
Player Profile
Minimum Requirements:
Must have 5+ years managing Information Security teams.
Extensive knowledge of the gaming or entertainment sector.
Strong understanding of ITSM frameworks (e.g. ITIL, MOF…etc).
Be able to effectively translate security needs or concerns into actionable initiatives within the business and technology partners.
Strong problem- solving, analytics skills and a business mindset.
Expert Excel skills and experience with building/running reports and analyzing and manipulating data.
Strong communications skills with the ability to succinctly convey messages to varying audiences.
Comfort with ambiguity; strong judgment and ability to make well- informed decisions.
Extra Points
5+ years in an engineering role.
Established relationships within the ABK CTO community.
Our World
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's 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 innovate 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’ - we’ve 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.
Activision Blizzard is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
About King
At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20- year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level- up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?
Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level- up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.
So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.
Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com
