Senior Analyst, Strategy

Activision Blizzard, Inc. • Santa Monica, CA

1d • $94,580 - $174,988 • Onsite

About The Position

The Strategy group at Activision is a lean, high-caliber team driving key business decisions across the entire organization. We work directly with our CFO and COO to ensure our business is identifying opportunities and delivering against top strategic priorities for Activision Publishing, Call of Duty, and other core franchises such as Crash, Spyro, and Tony Hawk. Our team develops exceptional talent, with members regularly graduating to leadership positions.
As a Senior Analyst, you will be a critical and visible part of the team leading Strategy for Activision. You will partner with execs and VPs across Activision and studios to size new concept opportunities, evaluate market opportunities, optimize our portfolio & monetization strategy, recommend pricing changes, evaluate partnership / joint venture / M&A opportunities, and more.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience plus 4-year college degree in management consulting, private equity, or corporate development/strategy at a leading TMT company
• Exceptional quantitative skills and financial acumen
• Persuasive communication skills, both written and verbal; comfortable interfacing with C-suite on day one
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
• Self-starter and comfortable with ambiguity; must be self-directed and proactive
• Interest and passion for interactive entertainment and technology with the ability to learn complex industry topics and processes quickly

Responsibilities

• Drive organization-wide strategy projects: tackling leadership's top priorities, often spanning multiple franchises, studios, and functions.
• Conduct rigorous quantitative and qualitative analyses: synthesizing large volumes of information quickly to solve complex, ambiguous business problems under tight timelines.
• Build consensus and influence decision-making: partnering across cross-functional teams (finance, product, marketing, studios) and presenting recommendations directly to executive and VP audiences.
• Develop deep expertise in the gaming industry and our franchises: understanding how they operate, the markets they compete in, and where the next big opportunity might come from.

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: Senior