Senior Communications Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

As part of the Microsoft Gaming Communications team, you will join a group of professionals focused on telling the stories that help people fall in love with Gaming at Microsoft, the things we make, and the impact we have in the world. At team Xbox, we’re on a mission to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We’re looking for a highly organized, collaborative, and proactive Sr. Comms Manager, Integrated Content Comms, to join the Gaming Communications team. Tasked with managing our biggest games portfolio moments, this global role will be responsible as a key comms leader, working across Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and Xbox Game Studios to help drive planning and execution around key game portfolio moments and initiatives. The ideal candidate brings their experience as a comms leader in gaming or entertainment with an understanding of go-to-market campaigns, a demonstrated excellence in project management, collaboration, and coalition-building. They excel at managing complex initiatives across stakeholders and thrives as a force multiplier for teams across gaming. They embody a very proactive, curious, learn-it-all mentality in how they work, embrace ambiguity, and have a bias for action. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, project management, or related experience OR equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, project management, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
• APPLIES TO EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIZATION - 3+ years specialized functional (e.g., retail, technology) experience.
• APPLIES TO EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIZATION - 4+ years experience supporting senior executives in an executive communications role.
• APPLIES TO EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIZATION - 3+ years experience working with social media platforms.

Responsibilities

• Global lead and project manager for cross functional teams on key games moments and events
• Partner with comms and marketing leadership to evolve process around go-to-market plans and long-range planning.
• Identify Comms learnings across Game Content & Studios to implement best practices on key launch efforts such as announcements, previews, reviews, momentum, measurement, and creator strategy.
• Collaborate with other communications leads and studio teams to drive integrated storytelling for major game moments, identifying and implementing opportunities for portfolio-wide storytelling and creator initiatives across Game Studios.
• Help drive rhythm of business for the content team, including team operations and fiscal planning as well as helping team pioneer new ways of storytelling.

What This Job Offers

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