Microsoft
Senior Director, Minecraft Ecosystem Experiences and Services - Mojang Studios
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, United States, 98052
Senior Director, Minecraft Ecosystem Experiences and Services - Mojang Studios Overview: As part of the Ecosystem Experiences & Services team at Mojang, this role will report to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and partner closely with studio leadership to drive product innovation to deliver the best experience to our players and fans. We are looking for an experienced Senior Director, Minecraft Ecosystem Experiences and Services who would drive new capabilities to build efficient, scalable, performant, and resilient products and services. With a technical background combined with product experience focus, you will provide leadership for multi-disciplinary teams that focus across the franchise. Each part of your team will possess a deep understanding and experience of the technology and services they provide. Your role will be a leader that can bring the best out of these teams and lead them with clarity and confidence.
For a complete understanding of this opportunity, and what will be required to be a successful applicant, read on.Responsibilities: You will leverage your technical product management experiences to lead the teams that help drive Mojang Studios investments in areas of shared functions focused on delivering good player and community experiences, performance, security, and resilient, scalable services across our product pillars. Delivering Excellence: Apply deep understanding of customer needs, product analytics, and industry innovation to drive the product vision and strategy for Developer Platform, maximizing business and customer impact. Lead, mentor, inspire, and grow a high-performance team of technical product managers and engineers developing strategies, roadmaps, and specifications that prioritize the most impactful opportunities. Collaborate with management to align vision, strategy, performance metrics, and roadmaps.Organizational & Delivery Leadership: Develop strategy across the organization ensuring alignment and accountability to Studio priorities and the teams you collaborate with. Drive deliverables across diverse work environments leveraged across our Product areas including Safety, Security, Support, Quality, Release Management, Web, Launcher, and Service Engineering. Work closely across the combination of business and engineering leaders within the Studio to develop unified plans for a cohesive delivery strategy. Develop critical relationships across Business Leadership and Product Development to genuinely understand challenges from their perspectives and turn those into requirements across the breadth of engineering solutions.People Management: Mentor engineering leads and product managers to support day-to-day tasks, achieve long-term career, and team objectives. Lead a diverse group of passionate functional professionals in their disciplines in the high value/impact work they do daily. Help drive clarity for your teams, particularly during times of ambiguity. Good communicator across a broad audience. Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles. Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn. Care - Attract and retain great people; Know everyone's capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
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For a complete understanding of this opportunity, and what will be required to be a successful applicant, read on.Responsibilities: You will leverage your technical product management experiences to lead the teams that help drive Mojang Studios investments in areas of shared functions focused on delivering good player and community experiences, performance, security, and resilient, scalable services across our product pillars. Delivering Excellence: Apply deep understanding of customer needs, product analytics, and industry innovation to drive the product vision and strategy for Developer Platform, maximizing business and customer impact. Lead, mentor, inspire, and grow a high-performance team of technical product managers and engineers developing strategies, roadmaps, and specifications that prioritize the most impactful opportunities. Collaborate with management to align vision, strategy, performance metrics, and roadmaps.Organizational & Delivery Leadership: Develop strategy across the organization ensuring alignment and accountability to Studio priorities and the teams you collaborate with. Drive deliverables across diverse work environments leveraged across our Product areas including Safety, Security, Support, Quality, Release Management, Web, Launcher, and Service Engineering. Work closely across the combination of business and engineering leaders within the Studio to develop unified plans for a cohesive delivery strategy. Develop critical relationships across Business Leadership and Product Development to genuinely understand challenges from their perspectives and turn those into requirements across the breadth of engineering solutions.People Management: Mentor engineering leads and product managers to support day-to-day tasks, achieve long-term career, and team objectives. Lead a diverse group of passionate functional professionals in their disciplines in the high value/impact work they do daily. Help drive clarity for your teams, particularly during times of ambiguity. Good communicator across a broad audience. Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles. Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn. Care - Attract and retain great people; Know everyone's capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
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