Team Name:
Global Insights

Job Title:
Senior Program Manager, Applied Science | Irvine, CA

Requisition ID:
R027870

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager to support evaluation, adoption, and ongoing development of innovative technologies, tools, and platforms that are used in connection with video game development and production.

The role will partner with applied scientists, machine learning engineers, and stakeholders across the business to coordinate evaluations, manage execution, and guide the development of internal tools and platforms. The ideal candidate brings strong operational rigor, technical fluency in applied science, and product judgment in guiding technology adoption and the evolution of internal tools and platforms.

This role offers a flexible hybrid work week, with a mix of remote and on-site days. While hybrid is the standard arrangement, you're also welcome to work on-site full-time if you prefer. Our primary studio location is in Irvine, California.

Responsibilities

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Drive cross-functional planning and execution for the evaluation, adoption, and development of internal platforms and external technologies utilized in game development and production.

• Partner with applied scientists, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate team needs into clear requirements, evaluation plans, and adoption strategies.

• Help guide the direction and prioritization for internal tools and platforms by identifying high-value use cases, capability gaps, and opportunities.

• Manage stakeholder alignment, readiness, communications, and risk management to support successful rollout and adoption across teams.

• Track outcomes, user feedback, success metrics, and key dependencies to inform recommendations, platform direction, and guide scaled rollout.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• 8+ years of program management experience supporting cross-functional technical initiatives, platforms, tools, and internal systems.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, statistics, or related domain

• Strong understanding of innovative technologies and tools, including LLM-based applications, context retrieval patterns, tool integrations, agentic systems, and automation.

• Ability to identify team needs, translate them into requirements, and help guide the direction of internal tools and platforms.

• Technical fluency to work effectively with applied scientists, machine learning engineers on requests, integrations, evaluation frameworks, and platform capabilities.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Pluses

• Experience partnering closely with engineering, applied science, or machine learning teams to shape internal capabilities, prioritize improvements, and support iterative development of tools and platforms.

• Experience supporting teams in game development or production environment.

• Experience driving thoughtful evaluation and adoption of new technologies in large organizations.

• Familiarity with assessing solutions across quality, cost, latency, safety, reliability, and usability.

• Familiarity with evaluating machine learning platforms, multimodal tools, and automation solutions.

• Master's degree in engineering

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $115,140.00 - $213,024.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.