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bachelor degree
Posted 1d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Lead production planning and day-to-day execution for external art teams across multiple projects. Drive collaboration with vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure asset delivery and process consistency.
Requirements
Requires 10+ years of AAA production experience with a strong focus on external art and outsource vendor management. A bachelor's degree in Computer Games Technology, Business Development, or a related field is preferred.
Full job description
Job Title:
Production Lead (External Art)
Requisition ID:
R027812
Job Description:
Job Title: Production Lead (External Art)
Department: Production
Reporting to: Director of Production
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Your Mission
Our team is currently looking for a talented Production Lead to support external art development across Infinity Ward projects.
This role is based in our Barcelona office and follows an onsite work schedule of five days per week.
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
Lead production planning and day-to-day execution for external art teams supporting multiple projects, partnering with art leads, directors, and cross-discipline stakeholders to align priorities, schedules, dependencies, and deliverables.
Build and maintain production tracking across external art workstreams, ensuring clear ownership, realistic dates, and actionable status visibility.
Drive effective collaboration with vendors and partner teams through recurring syncs, milestone reviews, risk tracking, and follow-up actions.
Identify production risks early and proactively drive mitigation plans, ensuring asset plans, staffing assumptions, and delivery timelines remain grounded, deliberate, and aligned to project needs across multiple overlapping initiatives.
Help maintain healthy collaboration between Infinity Ward Spain and external partners by promoting clarity, accountability, and strong communication across studios.
Work across all art disciplines as needed, with particular strength in supporting outsourced and externally developed environment art pipelines.
Champion continuous improvement by driving production best practices, process consistency, and adoption of new workflows, tools, and ways of working across internal and external teams.
Provide clear status, risks, priorities, and tradeoffs to stakeholders across the studio and partner groups to support informed decision-making and alignment.
Player Profile
Experience
10+ years of AAA production experience, including meaningful support of external art teams, outsource vendors, or distributed development partners.
Proven ability to drive cross-functional production alignment, track execution, and ensure follow-through across internal and external teams.
Extensive experience supporting art development pipelines in AAA game production environments.
Bachelor’s degree preferred in Computer Games Technology, Business Development, or a related field.
Key Attributes
Excellent production fundamentals, including planning, scheduling, dependency management, stakeholder communication, and risk management.
Deep understanding of how art pipelines operate, especially where multiple teams contribute to shared content goals.
Ability to bring structure and predictability to fast-moving production environments.
Sound judgment, strong organizational skills, and close attention to detail.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cultures, time zones, and disciplines.
A collaborative mindset and the ability to build trust with artists, leads, vendors, and production peers.
Strong working knowledge of modern game engines and development pipelines, with the ability to collaborate effectively with art, technical, and production teams.
Extra Points
Proven ability to collaborate effectively with global, cross-timezone teams and external partners.
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Your Platform
Founded in 2002, Infinity Ward is the original studio behind the Call of Duty® franchise. The titles developed by Infinity Ward have won more than 200 "Game of the Year" awards and 100 "Editor's Choice" awards, among many other industry accolades. Some of our previous titles include Call of Duty®: Ghosts, Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare and most recently, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare II.
A critically acclaimed studio, Infinity Ward is proud to have one of the most hardworking and versatile development teams in the industry. We love to have as much fun as the games we create, and it shows in our relaxed, yet diligent, workplace environment. We believe that making the best games relies on having the best people, so we like to look after ours. We enjoy having fun with top-notch events that everyone gets involved with.
At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We’re driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our “press start” is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences.
We’re not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we’re forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate, creative, and diverse teams within our organization.
We’re in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater — this could be your opportunity to level up.
Ready to Activate Your Future?
The video game 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 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.
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