Senior Planning and Operations Director, Warcraft (TEMP) | Irvine, CA

Blizzard Entertainment • Irvine, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Senior Planning and Operations Director, you will play a significant role in defining, delivering and communicating a cohesive strategy that advances the Warcraft franchise's goals across audience expansion, player engagement, fandom, and supporting organizational excellence.
You will translate the Warcraft vision into actionable strategic roadmaps, aligning multi-functional stakeholders, supporting new opportunities and enabling execution. This is a highly collaborative role across many areas of the Blizzard organization and beyond. The role sits at the intersection of Warcraft and Blizzard creative, business, and operational leadership and plays a key role in driving measurable results through high-quality planning, collaboration, communication, and delivery frameworks.
This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this position is Irvine, CA. This position is expected to last 6 months.

Requirements

• 15+ years of leading complex strategic initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of the games market and evolving consumer expectations.
• Strong product and business performance acumen with the ability to balance short-term wins and long-term vision.
• Experience in organizational design, resource planning, and process optimization.
• Skilled in creating scalable systems for planning, delivery, and accountability.
• Exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, including C-level interaction and influence.
• Ability to foster trust, ownership, and clarity in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and iterate on the strategic roadmap in alignment with Warcraft’s long-term vision and annual goals in collaboration with Blizzard and team partners.
• Ensure OKRs, annual operating plans, and long-range plans are created on time, consistently updated as a live document, coherent and consistently followed.
• Drive high-quality strategic thinking across teams, departments, and leadership levels in alignment with the Executive producer – or being her voice when she is absent.
• Align teams across departments at Blizzard beyond the game team through effective collaboration and integration of strategic priorities to drive meaningful, measurable results.
• Drive operational excellence through forecasting alongside our finance and product management teams as well as supporting prioritization, estimation, planning, and cost management.
• Act as the connective tissue between Warcraft and our internal teams (Dev, Product Management, HR, Finance, Tech Ops, Battle.net, BD) as well as external stakeholders.
• Drive alignment across initiatives, ensuring timely and transparent communication of progress, challenges, and results.
• Ensure strategic coherence through internal and external reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to evolve strategic processes and engagement models.

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: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed