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Director, Central Business Performance Unit: Global Insights
2 years ago
Team Name:
Global InsightsJob Title:
Director, Central Business Performance Unit: Global InsightsRequisition ID:
R006242Job Description:
Blizzard Entertainment is a community of 4,000 global employees who are passionate about not only gaming but entertainment and the technology that drives our player experience.
We're on a quest to find a legendary Director, Central BPU who is a grandmaster at their craft. This is someone who has a deep understanding of game development, business operations and live services, and game analytics. They will lead Blizzard’s quest to create amazing game experiences with sustainable live services, and potential for continued growth. Most importantly, they have a huge well of empathy for players because they are players themselves.
The BPU Dir will function as a team lead for our central data and BPU team, driving the quality of product management, commercial and analytics work across the studio. They will assist in building the function through hiring, establishment of best practices, cataloging of learnings, and mentorship for analytics and PM across Blizzard.
QUEST DESCRIPTION
- Establishes clear, measurable goals for our analytics and central BPU teams.
- Drives the analytical framework to prioritize and align analytics work to Blizzard’s strategic objectives.
- Drives key initiatives for core analytics (ex: KPI standardization, automated standardized reporting)
- Develops and grows key talent in the analytics and BPU functions.
- Builds a practice and store for competitive analyses.
- Build BPU center of competency delivery and tools (ex: shared analysis, peer reviews, best practices)
- Own key strategic cross-team initiatives (ex: data platform strategy, shop modernization)
- Leads product and initiative reviews for key programs that span across Blizzard commercial teams: game health, feature performance and review prioritized backlog.
- Provides regular and ad-hoc reports to senior leaders on game and portfolio performance.
- Identifies and drives business initiatives to maximize acquisition, retention, and monetization
- Manages product managers and analytics leaders.
REQUIRED TALENT PROFILE
- 8+ years of experience in strategy, product management and/or analytics in games
- Demonstrated passion and understanding for games
- Experience managing product managers, analysts and/or data scientist preferred
- Exceptional program management
- Exceptional data analysis and problem-solving skills; SQL abilities is a strong plus
- Outstanding written, oral, and organizational ability
- Must have the passion to self-motivate, the guile to sell your ideas to other stakeholders, and the drive to execute those ideas cross-functionally
- Ability to provide clear direction, set measurable goals and give insight on industry and competitor trends
- Strong project management skills and ability to present work to executive team
- BS, quantitative or technical degree a plus (math, economics, engineering, or finance); MBA a plus
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