Director of Xbox Planning & Insights
Microsoft
Oklahoma, USA
Posted on Oct 17, 2024
At Team Xbox, we aspire to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We have a clear vision of the future of gaming, one that puts players and game creators at the center of everything we do. We are leading with innovation, by bringing together our portfolio of beloved franchises, from Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, King, and Xbox Game Studios, with our global gaming platform, spanning console, PC, mobile, and cloud devices.
The Xbox Planning & Insights team sits at the epicenter of Xbox’s transformation and acceleration, managing the business today while building for the future, in close partnership with the Xbox Leadership Team. We are looking for a talented, experienced, and motivated to help build a new discipline focused on optimizing Xbox across lines of business, incubating new and disruptive business models, shaping and defining the player insights and taxonomy that inform our products and investments, facilitating broad organizational alignment, and connecting our player insights to our investments to our performance.
The Director of Xbox Planning & Insights will play a critical role in accelerating Xbox’s growth and realizing our vision for the future of gaming. This is a visible leadership role requiring strong quantitative analytical skills, financial literacy, the ability to frame complicated business questions and drive them to resolution, a willingness to collaborate broadly across disciplines, executive acumen, and effective written and oral communications skills. A curious mindset is fundamental.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
This role will:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 18, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
The Xbox Planning & Insights team sits at the epicenter of Xbox’s transformation and acceleration, managing the business today while building for the future, in close partnership with the Xbox Leadership Team. We are looking for a talented, experienced, and motivated to help build a new discipline focused on optimizing Xbox across lines of business, incubating new and disruptive business models, shaping and defining the player insights and taxonomy that inform our products and investments, facilitating broad organizational alignment, and connecting our player insights to our investments to our performance.
The Director of Xbox Planning & Insights will play a critical role in accelerating Xbox’s growth and realizing our vision for the future of gaming. This is a visible leadership role requiring strong quantitative analytical skills, financial literacy, the ability to frame complicated business questions and drive them to resolution, a willingness to collaborate broadly across disciplines, executive acumen, and effective written and oral communications skills. A curious mindset is fundamental.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
This role will:
- Partner with Research and Data Science to develop a comprehensive perspective on player behaviors and motivations, to inform product development and marketing investments.
- Evaluate & incubate new business opportunities, in close collaboration with Product, Finance, Marketing, etc.
- Accelerate Xbox business growth by optimizing across lines of business, efficiently allocating capital investments, and aligning the business roadmap with Product & Brand.
- Drives cross-organizational alignment for optimal plan across the Xbox portfolio, collaborating with the Xbox Leadership team and key senior leaders in Product, Finance, Planning, Marketing, and more. Delivers short and long term business roadmap to ensure success execution of the plan.
- Foster organizational alignment to drive accelerated change by connecting player insights to product and marketing investments and the Xbox-wide metrics used to measure the success of those investments, executed in partnership with Data Science and Finance.
- Lead projects or programs that are synthesizing data (e.g., pricing research, economic analysis) to inform business decisions for the team and drive results across the company. Identifies analyses and insights needed to make the decision to move the business forward. Guides the team on cross-thinking insights from prior experience and the market, other teams, etc. Communicates results with senior leaders in a synthesized manner for products or across products or services.
- Directs cross-functional virtual teams. Collaborates with a variety of teams across organizations as a trusted advisor with senior leaders, including Vice Presidents. Ensures all voices are heard in collaborative efforts. Effectively partners with Vice Presidents and others by asking questions to open other possibilities.
- Cultivates a growth mindset culture and models Microsoft leadership principles, “creates clarity, generates energy, delivers success”.
- Advocates for inclusion and diversity; strong empathy and self-awareness.
- A great teammate who seeks to collaborate and creates a safe and supportive working environment.
- Strong partnership skills focused on long-term strategic relationships and complex multi-year initiatives.
- Effective across organizational boundaries and in balancing the needs of multiple parties.
- Collaborative attitude; enjoys working with broad cross-functional project teams.
- World-class analytical skills, financial literacy, and the ability to communicate data insights to drive business decisions.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly the ability to synthesize complex problems/scenarios into easy-to-understand concepts.
- Exceptional attention to detail, including rigorous financial and operational analysis.
- Embody our culture and values
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, in gaming, planning, or related experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 12+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development in gaming, planning or related experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field
- OR 8+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience AND Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), or related field
- OR equivalent experience.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 18, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.