Senior Director, Minecraft Ecosystem Experiences and Services - Mojang Studios

As part of theEcosystemExperiences&Servicesteam at Mojang, this rolewill report to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and partner closely withstudio 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- Mojang Studios, who would drivenewcapabilitiesto build efficient,scalable,performant, resilient products and services. With a technical background combined with product experience focus, you will provide leadership for multi-disciplinary teams that focuses 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.

Preferably you h ave worked in multi-disciplined teams to build and release a wide variety of services, features and games with both client and backend/live service considerations as well as their implications to business, production and design.

This position willrequire you to bring a balanced set ofscalabilityand data driven framework tomakeinformed decisions with anend user focus, partner engagement/collaborationand executioncommitment. You will be work with productteamsacross thestudio, ha ve executive exposure, and be given great opportunit ies for growth and impact.

Collaborate - Be a driver of partnership and collaborations a cross Mojang , Xbox, and Microsoft. Build good relationships that run on trust and collaboration. Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the player experience, the teams you collaborate with and continuously work towards evolving as our business needs shift.

Innovate - Care deeply aboutcontinuousdevelopment, improvement and quality delivery. Youare committed todefining and achieving a high-quality bar across the teams you lead. You help your teams createoptimizations for achieving higher utilization and scalewhile maintaining pragmaticdecisions. You are looking at the horizon of technology to identify where those technologies can optimize game development ( a great example is how we can create an enhanced security across multiple vectors responsibly and benefit our teams as well as our community) .

Guide -Define the business goals and product vision with your team s and create and execute a roadmap to meet those goals. Through aligned priorities you will b uild a vision for evolving your teams along with the franchise goals, priorities and vision. You will be adept at making pragmatic decisions and tradeoffs that enable teams to make fast progress to achieve objectives while keeping in mind the franchise future strategy and commitment to quality.

Lead your teams and motivate them to be partof buildinga better world forMinecraftfans worldwide!

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.

Responsibilities:

You will leverage your technical product management experiences to lead the teamsthat help drive Mojang Studios investments in areas ofshared functionsfocused on deliveringgood player and community experiences, p erformance , s ecurity and resilient, scalable s ervices 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 .

• Exhibit robust problem-solving and decision-making skills, tackling both technical and strategic challenges in innovative ways, and leveraging both data and intuition to make strategic choices in the face of ambiguity and complexity .

• Provide critical analysis of technology and development practices with the goal of improving game quality and team efficiency and encouraging a positive working environment .

Organizational & Delivery Leadership :

• Develops strategyacross the organizationensuring alignment and accountability toStudio prioritiesand the teams you collaborate with.

• Drivedeliverablesacross diverse work environments leveraged across our Product areasincludingSafety, Security, Support, Quality, Release Management, Web, Launcher,Service Engineeringjust to name a few.

• Work closely across the combination of business and engineering leaders withinthe Studio todevelop unified plansfor a cohesive delivery strategy.

• Develop critical relationships across Business Leadership and Product Development t o genuinely understandchallengesfrom their perspectives and turn those into requirementsacross the breadth ofengineeringsolutions.

• Shares industry expertise and strategic insight in collaboration with other teams, conducts analyses, and examinesplayerand technology-related industry trends, first class experienceandindustry-specificrequirements.

• Acts as aleaderinthe studioto ensure cross-divisional teams develop problem statements and form hypotheses of feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service) to address crucial business, program, customer needs, and/or market opportunities.

• Envisions, architect, deliver and support high-quality ex perienceservices acrossthe gamingservice platform, hardware, and development.

• Createdetailed road maps to coordinate the efforts of engineeringand businessteams.

• Effectivelycollaborate across large organizations and multi-disciplinary teams

• Security of our product, our players, is always top of mind, you will develop a clear strategy and approach with your team on behalf of the franchise.

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 professionalsin their disciplinesin the high value/impact work they do daily., you are n aturally curious and love to div e in and learn, understand , and help .

• Help drive clarity for your teams, particularly during times of ambiguity.

• Good c ommunicat or across a broad audience

• L ead teams throughopportunities scoping and priority setting/planning.

• 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; Knoweveryone'scapabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

• Promote, participate in, and contribute to our culture of inclusion and diversity
• Other
  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+

years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but

not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o OR equivalent experience.

• Experience working on developer platforms with a solid understanding of the game development lifecycle and passion for creating best in class player experiences.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years

technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not

limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND

10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages

including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,

or Python

o OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years people management experience.

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 29, 2024.

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