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At Activision Blizzard King, we create epic interactive gaming and entertainment experiences. Our corporate functions—Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance, and Supply Chain—support our brands and studios with agility, creativity, and rigor. Our global headquarters is in Santa Monica but our employees enhance the player experience from all over the globe. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

The ABK editorial team seeks an experienced (or what we call “director level”) editor and writer who is passionate about telling stories at the intersection of gaming and life for an audience of 400 million gamers.

You don’t have to be a gamer to apply for this role, though familiarity with our franchises (which include Candy Crush, Call of Duty, Diablo, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and Warcraft) will help a great deal—even if you haven’t dusted off your controller or keyboard in some time.

If our franchise-specific editorial teams inform and entertain players of a specific game, the ABK editorial team offers perspective and delight across titles. We translate and celebrate the happiness, connectedness, and impact of gaming in ways that are engaging to a broad audience. And we do it using the same editorial creativity, formats, styles, and standards you see in your favorite national publications.

You’ll work closely with ABK’s editorial team every single day, and coordinate with non-editorial teams across the company each week. You’ll publish work on our Substack (activisionblizzard.substack.com) and we’ll distribute it through our newsletter subscription list as well as on ABK-branded social media channels. We’re a data-driven team and organization, but you won’t find arbitrary traffic goals here—we measure success by deeper and more committed engagement.

The successful candidate is a skilled communicator who can write with style, edit with rigor, and passionately generate ideas that inform and entertain gamers from all walks of life (including people who don’t consider themselves gamers). Your diplomacy is formidable, your ethics are unimpeachable, and your copy is—of course!—pristine.

Major Responsibilities

Generate fresh and compelling ideas that bring gaming stories to life among those who don’t consider themselves gamers
Report, write, and produce those stories with flair and precision
Assign, edit, and fact-check stories written by colleagues or freelancers
Use story engagement data to help inform future work
Build trust, collaborate, and coordinate with noneditorial colleagues to better align editorial initiatives with theirs, including product launches and other key priorities

Player Profile

Significant (approximately 8+ years, though we’re not counting!) education and/or experience in creative, editorial, journalistic, or commercial publishing environments
Outstanding writing and editing skills
Ability to work at a high level
Ability to balance multiple projects on different target dates
Excellent independent judgment and discretion
Experience using style and grammar references such as the AP Stylebook
Solid understanding of ABK’s portfolio of games and esports

This role reports to the ABK editor-in-chief and sits within the broader global corporate communications function.

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 accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

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.

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.

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