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Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.\nMicrosoft Advertising is at the forefront of the digital advertising industry and empowers advertisers around the world to reach and expand their potential through our full-funnel digital marketing solutions.\nGaming is one of the largest and fastest-changing audiences in that portfolio, spanning Xbox, King, Activision Blizzard, and our broader gaming supply across console, PC, mobile, and streaming. We are looking for an initiative-taking Senior Business Planner to drive business planning for our gaming ads business. In this role you will take work from idea to reality: sizing the opportunity, building the business case, bringing customer and market evidence into product planning, and driving initiatives through to delivery.\nResponsibilities\n1. Program / Project Management\nDevelops detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables for their assigned workstream, consolidating milestones and dependencies across projects\n\nIdentifies and manages interdependence across workstreams to avoid bottlenecks and ensure timely delivery\n\nLeads governance rhythms, enforcement, and execution excellence including regular updates to stakeholders, maintaining clarity on status and risks\n\n2. End-to-End Planning\nDevelops strategic plans to drive and transform the gaming business across demand, supply, products, and platforms, and influences prioritization of initiatives within these areas\n\nLeads workstreams across opportunity identification and sizing, demand strategy, and business requirements documentation, so gaming enters planning cycles with a quantified position rather than a directional ask\n\nWorks with cross-functional teams to ensure business and demand plans are comprehensive and rationalized across publishers, surfaces, and sales motions\n\nSupports publisher planning with sizing and business cases, including monetization and ad policy considerations\n\n3. Problem Solving and Insights\nStructures ambiguous situations into a defined plan, including root cause identification, hypothesis testing, and implementation of the proposal\n\nLeverages insights across voice of the customer, voice of the field, market research, and stakeholder input to develop recommendations and provide thought leadership around potential growth opportunities\n\nLeverages AI and automation to synthesize data and identify patterns, owning the integrity, relevance, and limitations of AI-generated insights used in business decision making\n\nContributes to the Gaming Ads competitive intelligence rhythm and market benchmarking, and represents that evidence in product planning and prioritization forums\n\n4. Communication and Stakeholder Management\nCommunicates and advocates plans to business leaders and conveys viewpoints through written documents such as memos, perspectives, and business requirements docs, and through influence models such as meetings and presentations\n\nBuilds end-to-end storylines, leveraging data to demonstrate measurable outcomes of work\n\nDelivers recommendations and implications to stakeholders to facilitate discussions and decision making\n\nPartners across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance and Sales to ensure alignment\n\nYour role involves strategic planning, collaboration, and staying ahead in the dynamic digital advertising landscape. By connecting gaming supply, advertiser demand, and Microsoft’s broader advertising portfolio, you will contribute to Microsoft’s success in the ever-evolving industry.\nQualifications\nRequired/minimum qualifications\nBachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.\n\n3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.\nAdditional or preferred qualifications\nBachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.\n\n8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.\n1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).\nExperience in gaming, entertainment, or media, or working with publishers and advertisers to create and sell media products.\nStrong familiarity with the digital environment and a clear understanding of the media planning and buying process.\nA proven track record of working across diverse stakeholders, including sales, to define and execute strategic initiatives with passion, precision, and excellence.\nAbility to navigate, build trust, and influence through hands-on engagement with leadership across business and engineering teams.\nSolid business judgement and ability to make decisions leveraging strategic thinking complemented with a bias for action and operational excellence.\nAbility to communicate at an executive level through visual, written, and verbal communication within a global context, technical and non-technical.\nAbility to thrive in a fast-moving and exciting, but oftentimes ambiguous environment.\nTechnical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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