Director, Market Intelligence

2 Months ago • 10 Years + • Data Analyst • $136,500 PA - $253,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Director, Market Intelligence at Warner Bros. Games will be responsible for providing comprehensive market and competitive insights to inform strategic decision-making. This involves analyzing macro trends, competitor activities, and internal results across console, PC, and mobile game businesses. The role requires close collaboration with publishing and studio teams, leveraging data to generate publishing recommendations and lead competitive benchmarking efforts. Responsibilities include creating industry models, performing data analysis, managing intelligence tools, and leading a team of analysts. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical, communication, and strategic thinking skills, along with deep game industry knowledge.
Must have:
  • 10+ years experience in market insights or related role
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Deep competitive understanding of the game industry
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to manage and lead a team of analysts
  • Proficiency in data analysis tools (Excel, PowerPoint)
Good to have:
  • Prior experience coordinating major programs
  • Global experience and perspective
Perks:
  • Annual bonuses
  • Short- and long-term incentives
  • Program-specific awards
  • Health insurance
  • Employee wellness program
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation

Job Details

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

The Job

As Director, Market Intelligence, you will ensure that Warner Bros. Games understands the holistic market and competitive landscape for our current and future business. Serving as the architect for competitive and market insights your role is to analyze and distill macro and market trends, competitor activities and our own results to enable smarter decision-making.

The Director will serve as a central point of contact for publishing and studio teams working closely with Franchise Planning, Central Product Management, Research and Analytics to serve as a central source of market intelligence across the console, PC and mobile game businesses.

The Daily

  • Profile the overall market and competitive environment, providing insights and recommendations that support strategic decision-making and content for use in internal and external presentations by senior leadership.
  • Tap into market trends and adjacent industries to ensure the necessary future forward analysis joining together our own/competitor successes, as well as learnings from the past and present.
  • Create and update comprehensive industry and competitor models including - but not limited to - market share, growth projections and trends, and market forces.
  • Perform financial, statistical, and qualitative data analysis of markets and competitors.
  • Perform thorough, systematic analysis of key industry trends; the general social economic and political environment; legal and regulatory issues; customers; current and potential competitors.
  • Develop and manage intelligence tools to support collection and dissemination of competitive information, establishing a regular cadence of reporting.
  • Generate publishing recommendations based on a combination of internal and external data sets related to game genres, and IPs owned by WBD.
  • Lead cross-functional competitive benchmarking efforts, establishing baseline analysis and working with subject matter experts to more deeply understand strategies and tactics of market leaders. Create in-depth competitor tear downs, including current strategies, expansion plans, market position and, product assessments.
  • Manage day-to-day relationships and business partnerships with external market intelligence partners.
  • Manage a team of analysts to guide modeling and analysis across large data sets. Create frameworks for distilling data into concrete recommendations.
  • Attend relevant industry events and conferences to learn from the market first-hand about the latest trends and best practices in the industry.
  • Develop & maintain forecasting models to anticipate market trends
  • Act with the highest level of integrity and confidentiality
  • Maintain an in-depth knowledge of designated markets and trends through reading reports, market research, data manipulation and financial modeling and analysis.

 The Essentials

  • 10+ years experience in a consumer / market insights, competitive insights, product marketing or related role
  • This role will require strong analytical skills and independent thinking and judgment abilities.
  • Solid researcher-ability to locate information that is relevant, complete and consequential
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Strong cross-functional relationship skills, to gather, organize and apply competitive intelligence
  • Ability to reconcile large, disparate and conflicting datasets to draw out insights
  • Ability to work independently
  • Deep competitive understanding of the game industry.
  • Proven ability to bring structure and clarity to highly complex initiatives..  
  • Effective communication and presentation skills required.
  • Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills coupled with financial acumen and commercial instincts are needed.
  • High level of proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.

The Nice to Haves

  • Prior experience coordinating major programs across matrixed resources is desired.
  • Prior global experience and perspective is desired.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $136,500.00 - $253,500.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

If you’re a qualified candidate with an arrest or conviction record, please know that your application will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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About The Company

Applicants – please be advised that all email correspondence by official Warner Bros. Games recruiters will come from the @lith.com, @warnerbros.com or @wbgames.com domains. Our agency recruiters who reach out through LinkedIn will also properly identify themselves as employees of the companies that work with us. All other parties claiming to be our recruiters are not affiliated with Warner Bros. Games, Monolith or any of our studios. Please take care not to share your personal information with these contacts, nor click on any links embedded in their messages. If you have any questions, you can reach out to us directly at recruiting@wbgames.com.

Warner Bros. Games brings some of the most iconic characters and stories in entertainment to life through videogame development. With multiple world class development studios located across North America and the UK, our teams are made up of top talent in the industry. We strive for an open and collaborative culture where our people can do what they do best – making great games.

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