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Senior Gaming Category Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Apr 09, 2025 | |
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OverviewIn Consumer Sales Organization (CSO) our purpose is to earn fans and drive growth by building emotional connections to delight and empower everyone. We engage with consumers globally throughout their shopping journeys, navigating both physical storefronts and digital visits across Direct and Partner Channels in Gaming, Windows, M365 and Surface. Together with our ecosystem partners, we strategize and implement plans for customer engagement and economic growth. As a member of our team, you'll be part of growing a multi-billion-dollar business, charting new areas of innovation, and impacting billions of lives around the world. You also will be a part of a culture centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. If that appeals to you, it's an exciting time to be here in CSO. As a Senior Gaming Category Manager, you will own the regional retail go-to-the-market, lifecycle planning and execution of all Microsoft Games Studio, Bethesda, and Minecraft titles. You will be accountable for the forecasting, revenue obtainment, retail execution, and postmortem across each launch. This opportunity will allow you to develop deep business acumen across the holistic life cycle of the games business, accelerate your career with leadership visibility and impact across multiple territories, and become adept at managing highly matrixed organizations. Opportunity for flexible work with up to 80% from home. Within Gaming, we accomplish Microsoft's mission in two ways: Drive consumer engagement and revenue at retail: Use consumer insights, market data, store level analysis, and sales information to evaluate our business performance and develop seasonal, launch, & sustain plans to improve our partners' business, win share, sell units, and drive revenue. Amplify the Xbox brand through our retail partners: Plan and execute thoughtful and impactful through-line-full-funnel-marketing, focused on driving purchase intent, conversion & post purchase advocacy and consumer lifetime value for Gaming devices, content, accessories, and services. What our team offers At the core, we are a customer-focused team that encourages a diverse & inclusive culture. We are respectful, collaborative, accountable and approach work with a fun, positive attitude. The right candidate can expect to have opportunities for career growth and development while shaping our strategic approach to the rapidly changing transactional video and advertising environments. What I will do for you Champion your successes at every level of our leadership. Empower you with the opportunity to gain new experiences and improve upon your strengths. Support who you are as your authentic self. Make career development a consistent priority. How you can make an impact As an Americas Gaming Category Manager for Xbox within CSO you will create the Americas Retail Strategy for Microsoft Game Studio , influencing future product plans and enabling the field by defining the category story, delivering regional insights, creating programs aligned to the business priorities, and setting/striving to achieve success metrics. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home. 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.
ResponsibilitiesAmericas Microsoft Games Studio Performance Own yearly Microsoft Game Studios budgeting process including regional and territory target setting, quarterly forecast beats, monthly business reviews and weekly performance reporting. Drive regional accountability across both retail and direct channels for Games Metrics including Revenue and Quantities. Drive alignment with regional needs and the Marketing Business group on demand planning. Americas Retail Strategy for Microsoft Games Studios Develop Americas retail strategy for Microsoft Games Studio in alignment with the full Gaming ecosystem of devices, services, content, and growth areas, developing fiscal year priorities to help regions execute aligned marketing plans, strategies, and campaigns. Work with Product Marketing teams and regions to develop/maintain a Roadmap for product and retail programs, offers, and promotions across all markets to maximize sales. Create Americas partner pitch materials for regions to deliver to retail and telco partners. Drive correction of errors (COE) efforts to respond to market dynamics. Drive Microsoft Games Studio Growth Identify new opportunities and prioritize them according to their growth potential Work with Growth Lead to drive strategy of new/strategic and growth of sales channels with Product Marketing and CSO regions including partner selection, onboarding, and tracking results, best practices, and learnings to help with the rollout of future partners Assist regions in driving market expansion and the launching of new tests or trials. Microsoft Games Studio Insights Drive Category and Regional Insights, leveraging industry knowledge, channel insights, and customer understanding to drive strategic alignment, digital transformation, and land joint business objectives with regions and Product Marketing. Be the Voice of the Field, sharing regional insights based on in-store and online execution, customer/partner feedback, and regional market/industry trends, and impacting decisions in CSO, Gaming Marketing, and Gaming Engineering to influence Long Range Product Planning and Competitive Insights. OtherEmbody our culture and values. | |