In short
Microsoft Advertising is looking for a Senior Business Planner to drive business planning for their gaming ads business. This role involves taking work from idea to reality, including opportunity sizing, building business cases, and driving initiatives through to delivery within the dynamic digital advertising landscape.
Responsibilities
- Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables, consolidating milestones and dependencies.
- Identify and manage interdependencies across workstreams to ensure timely delivery.
- Lead governance rhythms, enforcement, and execution excellence, including regular stakeholder updates.
- Develop strategic plans to drive and transform the gaming business across demand, supply, products, and platforms.
- Lead opportunity identification and sizing, demand strategy, and business requirements documentation.
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure business and demand plans are comprehensive.
- Support publisher planning with sizing and business cases, including monetization and ad policy considerations.
- Structure ambiguous situations into defined plans, including root cause identification and hypothesis testing.
- Leverage AI and automation to synthesize data and identify patterns for business decision making.
- Contribute to Gaming Ads competitive intelligence and market benchmarking.
- Communicate and advocate plans to business leaders through written documents and presentations.
- Build end-to-end storylines using data to demonstrate measurable outcomes.
- Deliver recommendations and implications to stakeholders for decision making.
- Partner across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Sales to ensure alignment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
- Experience in gaming, entertainment, or media, or working with publishers and advertisers to create and sell media products.
- Strong familiarity with the digital environment and a clear understanding of the media planning and buying process.
- A proven track record of working across diverse stakeholders, including sales, to define and execute strategic initiatives.
- Ability to navigate, build trust, and influence through hands-on engagement with leadership across business and engineering teams.
- Solid business judgement and ability to make decisions leveraging strategic thinking complemented with a bias for action and operational excellence.
- Ability to communicate at an executive level through visual, written, and verbal communication within a global context, technical and non-technical.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving and exciting, but oftentimes ambiguous environment.
Benefits
- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
- A different range is applicable within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area: USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Skills
Project ManagementProgram ManagementBusiness AnalysisMarket ResearchData AnalysisAI
#gaming#digital advertising#business planning#program management#technical program management#microsoft advertising
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
3 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$142,800–274,800 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor
Applicants
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