Director, Business Planner - Xbox
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Location: Redmond, WA 98052
Description:
As a Director, Business Planner - Xbox focused on supporting our Developer Partnerships, you will play a crucial role in supporting the long-term health of our partner ecosystem. 3rd Party Partners play a crucial role for the Xbox Platform as we move to diversify our presence to new endpoints such as Smart TV and PC where we will need to develop new incentive models to continue nurturing support for Xbox. Creating new business models to monetize our player and partner relationships will be key to success for this role.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
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 November 21, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities:
- Market and Customer Needs Identification: Collaborate with internal teams to identify player, partner, and market needs, and propose new business solutions to meet those needs
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Orchestrate proposals and recommendations across multiple stakeholder groups, and collect and communicate feedback internally to address gaps and make joint recommendations
- Competitive Positioning: Position Xbox platform value to partners in the context of a competitive landscape through research and collaboration
- Business Planning: Provide Business Planning support for current business models and for emerging opportunities to monetize platform tools, such as AI
- Technical Decision Support: Leverage technical sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs
- Knowledge Sharing: Present to and educate colleagues, customers, and partners at scale on how publishers gauge platform and Xbox value based on audience reach and monetization opportunities to enhance knowledge sharing on products or solutions
- Adaptability: A positive and problem-solving approach to changing situations and challenges. Extreme comfort with ambiguity.
- Collaboration: Represent Xbox Business Planning and build relationships throughout product the development process and communicate with individuals and stakeholder teams
- Customer Focus: Understand Xbox Fans and bring customer perspective to product marketing process
- Analytics: Comfort with data and analytics, including driving key insights to inform planning and execution
- Influencing for Impact: Represent the Business Planning team as a resource and advisor across stakeholder teams to achieve product goals
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 7+ years experience using advanced functions in Excel and PowerPoint to drive and/or own financial modeling.
- 7+ years experience orchestrating and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver recommendations.
- 7+ years of experience working on business model creation and evaluation to include business models like: forecasting, scenario planning, etc.
- 12+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, 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.
- Experience in the gaming industry.
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 November 21, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
#Xbox