Senior Analyst, Strategy

Activision Blizzard, Inc. • Santa Monica, CA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Analyst position on the Strategy team is a unique, critical, and visible role at Activision. This is a generalist business strategy position that plays a key role on a high-caliber team that reports to our CFO. Your job is to ensure our business is identifying opportunities and delivering against key strategic priorities for Call of Duty and other franchises. Sample projects include long-term planning, go-to-market strategy, platform strategy, regional initiatives, product feature recommendations, and evaluation of new business models. Priorities may often change in a dynamic and fast-paced environment such as ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following key responsibilities:

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience plus 4-year college degree in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or corporate development/strategy at a leading TMT company
• Exceptional quantitative skills and financial acumen
• Persuasive communication skills, both written and verbal
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
• Self-starter and comfortable with ambiguity; must be self-directed and proactive starting day 1 on the job
• Interest and passion for interactive entertainment and technology with the ability to learn complex industry topics quickly

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in Activision’s long-term strategic planning processes (e.g., Activision Publishing, Call of Duty, Emerging Franchise)
• Drive strategy, organizational, and operations-related projects by partnering across publishing functions and development studios
• Deconstruct ambiguous problem statements into actionable project plans by utilizing hypothesis-based problem solving
• Conduct rigorous qualitative and quantitative analyses utilizing internal and external data sources to understand implications for Activision and our game franchises
• Synthesize insights and recommendations into succinct, executive-ready presentations to support VP & SVP-level decision-making
• Develop a deep understanding of how our game franchises operate, the markets they play in, their strategic priorities, and potential opportunities

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
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees