Activision Blizzard Media is a rapidly growing business built to connect brands with our 350M + global player base across Activision, Blizzard and King.
We create premium, innovative advertising experiences for world-class casual mobile games like King's Candy Crush Saga. Looking ahead, we plan to launch advertising across the Activision Blizzard portfolio, including high growth areas like eSports. This is an exciting time to join this growing business.
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Associate, Business Operations & Strategy to partner with our leadership team to define, evaluate and influence our largest strategic opportunities to accelerate the growth of the business. You will work with the Business Operations team to ensure that our leadership team is balancing the achievement of short-term objectives, while also making the necessary game-changing investments to pursue our lofty aspirations.
Your role within Activision Blizzard Media
Working under the supervision of the Senior Manager, Business Operations & Strategy, you will help to define and manage the short and long-term vision, strategy, and goals for advertising at Activision Blizzard Media. Core responsibilities include:
- Creating business cases for game-changing opportunities to supercharge the growth of the business.
- Supporting the development of long-term strategic and annual operating plans for the business; maintaining the operating model for the business.
- Supporting the President with key updates and presentations to King and Activision Blizzard executive leadership.
- Monitoring key industry trends and competitive landscape, and distilling implications for the business strategy.
- Supporting ad-hoc projects across the advertising business in support of our strategic ambitions.
Skills to create thrills
- Bachelors degree from a top-tier university
- 2+ years of work experience in Strategy Consulting or Investment Banking
- Experience/ interest in digital advertising or gaming
- Strong business sense and problem-solving ability, with rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis skills
- Superior PowerPoint and Excel financial modeling skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to prepare clear and concise stakeholder-ready documents
- Ability to work in self-directed, fast-paced, results-oriented work environments
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across different functions and effectively influence business partners
About Activision and Our Family of Brands
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one (or more!) of our games. We have developed more than 200 fun titles and offer games in over 200 countries and regions. King has game studios in Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, London, Malmö and Stockholm along with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, LA, Malta, and New York. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) which acquired King in February 2016.
Activision Blizzard is a member of the Fortune 500 and S&P 500, and the world's most successful standalone interactive entertainment company.
We delight hundreds of millions of monthly active users around the world every day through franchises including Activision's Call of Duty®, Destiny and Skylanders®, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, Diablo®, StarCraft®, and Heroes of the Storm®, and King's Candy Crush™, Pet Rescue™, Bubble Witch™ and Farm Heroes™.
We’ve been one of Fortune’s "100 Best Companies To Work For®" for the last four years. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, we have operations throughout the world, and our games are played in 196 countries.
More information about our company and products can be found on our website, www.activisionblizzard.com.
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people that share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. No matter where you’re from, it’s all about what we can achieve together when creating truly magical moments for all our players. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent - because a great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
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