Manager, Portfolio Operations & Integrated Planning

The Walt Disney Company•Burbank, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

We are Marvel Games, home of the team that collaborates with the mightiest companies on Earth to bring groundbreaking games to market. We are looking for a Manager, Portfolio Operations & Integrated Planning to join our team to work across multiple exciting projects with the most-talented game companies in the world. This is an on-site role in Burbank, CA.

Requirements

5 years of functional work experience in the games industry or similar, preferably in business development, integrated planning, partnerships, or synergy at a major game developer, publisher or platform.
Versatile and familiar with numerous aspects of game making and publishing: business development, project management, production, tech, sales, marketing, PR, social media, monetization, and live services.
Take ownership over your projects and are always figuring out newer and better ways to do your job smarter, faster, and more efficiently.
Willingness to learn and embrace new ideas that optimize and potentially diversify the way we operate.
Seek to foster deep and productive relationships with the people around you and treat them the way you wish to be treated - within the team, within the company, and with all our external partners.
Understand that these relationships are built through effective, frequent, and timely communication.
Strive to lead by example.
Nimble, and willing to wear many hats.
Excellent communication, conflict resolution and partner management skills, a strong desire to work with people in a collaborative, inclusive and constructive manner.
Excellent execution and project management skills, able to lead projects and push them forward in a clear and efficient manner.
A constant, unyielding desire to overdeliver and go beyond what is merely required.
Obsessed with our Super Heroes across all mediums: games, comics, toys, film, TV, and many others.

Responsibilities

Work directly with the Director, Portfolio Operations & Integrated Planning to assist in planning and execution in all operations, portfolio and integrated planning matters.
Work closely with the full Portfolio Operations & Integrated Planning team in execution of all operations, portfolio and integrated planning matters.
Collaborate with the product development team to maintain game release and marketing calendars, live events/DLC content roadmaps and help identify potential portfolio risks/conflicts, as well as provide solutions to impending portfolio conflicts.
Lead the work in maintaining, evaluating and updating Marvel’s extensive IP database, game rosters, and character grants across all products across Console/PC, mobile and xR (Extended Reality), review and track usage rights and conflicts across all key franchises such as Spider-Man, Avengers, X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, Fantastic Four and more
Help identify, develop, plan and execute mutually beneficial cross-functional initiatives between Marvel Games and other internal teams such as Consumer Products, Synergy, Publishing, Themed Entertainment, Disney Studios, Integrated Sponsorships.
Plan and execute regular company-wide content updates, decks and reports to provide cross-line-of-business visibility into the Marvel Games portfolio and priorities
Lead the work in maintaining the team’s library of master operating documents that are vital to the business’s continuity
Handle other increasingly challenging projects as appropriate