Senior Manager, Overwatch Analytics

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Senior Manager, Overwatch Analytics

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R024929

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Job Title: Senior Manager, Overwatch Analytics | Irvine, CA

Department: Global Insights
Location: Irvine, CA
 

Your Mission

Blizzard Entertainment’s games don’t just begin with an idea and end once the game is released. So much more goes into their creation and we support our games for years after they’re in the hands of gamers world-wide. Blizzard’s Global Insights organization is composed of teams of incredible engineers and talented analysts who work hand-in-hand with designers, commercial strategists, and business operations teams across the company.  We pride ourselves on our ability to add value to our games and players with a combination of data analytics expertise, business acumen, and genuinely geeking out on Blizzard products and culture!

Soldiers, scientists, adventurers, oddities…analysts!  Blizzard is looking for a skilled Senior Manager to lead a team of passionate analysts to deliver insights to senior game design, product, and finance leaders across the Overwatch franchise. Our unique blend of challenges, opportunities, environments, and people all help make Blizzard a studio worthy of your career.

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:

• Manage & lead a team of data analysts - Empower, coach, and mentor in partnering with and delivering key insights to the Overwatch game, product, and finance teams

• Partner with analysts and engineers to clearly report business-facing KPIs that measure the health and success of Overwatch, played by millions of players worldwide

• Comprehensively address both high-level and detailed strategic questions by clarifying the business requirements, developing hypotheses, and building an analytical structure to address the inquiry

• Partner with the game leadership team to interpret and guide insights that address key business opportunities and help shape the future of Overwatch product and design

• Apply diverse metrics and methods to handle partner expectations, working with teams to build tangible KPIs, with clear communication standards for project updates, headwinds, and successes

• Leverage tools such as Tableau, Big Query, Airflow, & Git to deliver insights and provide visibility to key metrics across the business

• Collaborate with Marketing, Finance, Game Business & Product Leadership, and regional analytics partners to deliver business impact, & effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Contribute to an inclusive atmosphere, where team members communicate and support each other's efforts, enabling a productive team culture, built upon trust and collaborative problem solving

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience managing teams in Gaming, Data Analytics, Product Analytics, Data Science, Business Intelligence, or Product Management roles

• BS degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field

• Experience building and leading data analytics teams

• Analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills, demonstrated by the ability to understand core business needs and get to the root of the inquiry

• Curious, internally-motivated self-starter with ability to plan, organize, and establish priorities to manage multiple projects and achieve results in a timely, scalable manner

• Have the ability to structure a concise, clear presentation of findings, based on large sets of complex data, and effectively present this to any level in the organization with appropriate visualizations

• Strong quantitative skills with a penchant for analytical query writing using SQL

Extra Points

• Experience communicating and advocating with analytical insights to executive-level audiences to inform decision making

• Demonstrated experience with some or all of the following: data modeling, data visualization, statistics

• Highly proficient in SQL

• Experience with cloud computing platforms and big data (such as Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Hadoop, Teradata, and/or Azure)

• Adept in at least one visualization tool such as Tableau; R or Python knowledge

• Familiar with agile project management tools such as Jira

Application Materials

• Resume

• Cover Letter preferred

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 accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. 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 $134,320.00 - $248,404.00 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.