Senior Planning and Operations Director, Warcraft

Team Name:

World of Warcraft

Job Title:

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

Requisition ID:

R026711

Job Description:

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.

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.

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• 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.
  
  

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.
  
  

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

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Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We Provide a Suite Of Benefits That Promote Physical, Emotional And Financial Well-being For ‘Every World’ - We’ve Got Our Employees Covered! Subject To Eligibility Requirements, The Company Offers Comprehensive Benefits Including:

• 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.
  
  

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $148,320.00 - $274,320.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.