Manager, Mobile Platform Partnerships | Playa Vista, CA

Activision Blizzard, Inc. • Los Angeles, CA

7d • $89,280 - $165,168 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager, Mobile Platform Partnerships enables the Digital Gaming, 3P Platforms team to execute its priorities through disciplined business operations, organizational health, communications, and strategic programs. Working closely with the Leadership Team and cross-functional partners across XBOX Gaming, Finance, HR, and Corporate teams, this role establishes effective operating rhythms, strengthens organizational alignment, and drives execution in a fast-moving, matrixed environment.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree with strong academic record, MBA nice to have
• 7+ years of business development, marketing or account management experience preferably in a gaming, media, entertainment or consumer web/mobile services company.
• Excellent leadership and relationship building skills with the ability to influence internal and external partners
• Strong attention to detail and ability to analyze complex problems, leading to developing and communicating recommendations and action plans to senior management.
• Analytical, with experience driving analyses and recommendations with data-driven framework.
• Proficient in MS Excel/Google Sheets and MS PowerPoint/Google Slides
• Excellent project management skills in managing external and internal partners to implement recommendations and action plans.
• Ability to work well in a cross-functional and cross-cultural team environment.
• Excellent oral and communications skills to express complex and analytical concepts with clarity.
• Ability to take ownership of an issue and see it through resolution.

Nice To Haves

• Passion for Mobile Gaming: Genuine enthusiasm for mobile games, with an understanding of the player experience, industry trends, and evolving dynamics of the mobile gaming landscape.
• AI & Emerging Technology: Curiosity and hands-on interest in leveraging AI tools and emerging technologies to drive greater efficiency, improve decision-making, solve business challenges, and unlock new opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Digital Gaming, 3P Platforms Leadership Team (LT) to establish and maintain a strong Rhythm of the Business (RoB), ensuring the team operates efficiently and with clear priorities.
• Lead end‑to‑end planning processes in partnership with the LT, ensuring alignment with corporate planning cycles and integration across Gaming Marketing & Sales and broader Microsoft organizations.
• Own the operating process for weekly Leadership Team meetings, including agenda development, speaker and content coordination, facilitation support, decision capture, and follow-through on action items.
• Drive day-to-day business operations by translating priorities into execution plans, monitoring dependencies and risks, and ensuring teams are prepared for key business milestones.
• Partner with Finance to support budget, forecast, OPEX and headcount management, ensuring financial discipline and transparency.
• Define, plan, and drive cross‑team process improvements to increase operational efficiency and scalability.
• Own and maintain team intranet portals, operational processes, access models, and procedures documentation, ensuring information is current, accessible, and actionable.
• In partnership with HR and the Leadership Team, help shape and drive the people and culture agenda, ensuring the team remains a great place to work.
• Lead and support team health initiatives, including morale‑building activities, offsites, onboarding experiences, and engagement programs.
• Coordinate planning and execution of team events, including internal forums and customer or partner‑facing events, as appropriate.
• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders on organizational effectiveness, change management, and team engagement topics.
• Plan and create team communications, including executive comms, newsletters, all hands, and meeting presentations.
• Build strategy, narrative, and content for key leadership meetings, business reviews, and events, ensuring alignment to leadership vision and business priorities.
• Manage communications and interactions across a wide range of stakeholders to ensure meetings and speaking engagements are well‑prepared, efficient, and impactful.
• Communicate complex information clearly and effectively across functional teams, quickly becoming a trusted subject matter expert and connector who drives impact through others.
• Ensure consistent, timely, and clear communication across the organization, supporting alignment and execution.
• Lead, plan, track, and contribute to cross‑team projects and strategic initiatives in support of evolving business priorities.
• Work closely with Leadership Team members and cross‑company counterparts on integration‑related initiatives, particularly for Activision, Blizzard, and Bethesda team members within the 3P Platforms organization.
• Support coordination and execution of key business moments, including fiscal year planning, monthly and quarterly business reviews, and other strategic planning activities.
• Adapt quickly to changing business needs, taking on new programs and initiatives as required to support organizational success.

Benefits

• 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
• Relocation assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager