Manager – Commercial Strategy

Team Name:

Global Insights

Job Title:

Manager, Commercial Strategy

Requisition ID:

R024686

Job Description:

Job Title: Manager, Commercial Strategy | Irvine, CA

Reporting to: Director, Commercial Strategy

Department: Global Insights & Product Management

Location: Irvine, CA

Your Mission

As Manager of Commercial Strategy, you will support and empower teams to execute industry-leading commercial and go-to-market (GTM) strategies. Interfacing with product management, marketing, and design leaders across Blizzard’s entire portfolio, you will help teams align on a common strategic commercial vision and facilitate the cross-functional delivery of key commercial outcomes.

You will be responsible for developing and refining end-to-end GTM plans for major launches, building frameworks to capture and evaluate success criteria for key game features, aggregating best practices and learnings to maintain a centralized playbook for GTM excellence, and coordinating the execution of these plans and strategies across multiple functions and long timelines.

Ultimately, you will be a critical contributor in driving the success of our games globally.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA

What you bring to the table

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

• Empathetically unite product management, marketing, and development teams behind a common vision and strategy for commercial success

• Assist in the development of deliverables that ensure successful execution against those strategies across Blizzard’s franchises and platform

• Build world-class presentations that synthesize complex inputs into influential stories that drive actionable outcomes

• Partner with product management and development teams to evaluate success criteria for key game features

• Accelerate insights and learnings from qualitative and quantitative data to support marketing and product strategy

• Perform competitive research and aggregate player feedback, market trends, and quantitative data to inform audience strategy

• Aggregate best practices and learnings to create and maintain a centralized launch/GTM playbook

• Support commercial execution on business models, pricing, SKUs, etc.

• Perform all other duties as assigned and required

Player Profile

Minimum requirements:

Experience

• 6+ years in product management, analytics, operations, strategy, or a related field, preferably within the gaming industry
• Strong track record of supporting strategic initiatives at large, cross-organizational levels

Knowledge & Skills

• Demonstrated experience and comfort working and influencing across product management, insights, marketing, and design/development/production disciplines to deliver positive commercial outcomes
• Demonstrated analytical mindset with a history of supporting data-driven decision making
• Ability to synthesize dozens of multidisciplinary inputs into cohesive, easy to understand, and high-quality presentations that drive impactful actions

Key Attributes

• Empathy-first mindset – dynamically adapt to the ways of working of different stakeholder groups; always focused on maximizing positive player experiences
• Strong organizational skills with a penchant for early planning and rapid iteration
• High tolerance for ambiguity with the ability to execute despite minimal input
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, capable of representing complex ideas effectively
• Highest level of integrity with the ability to manage confidential information discreetly
• Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent field

Extra Points

• Passionate gamer with working knowledge of Blizzard games, products, and services
• You obsess over the smallest details in your presentations – from fonts to alignment, you value pixel perfection
• Familiarity with SQL and Tableau

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., 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 innovative 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 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 [email protected]. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

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.

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 $87,480.00 - $161,910.00 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.