What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Lead position at Blizzard Entertainment?
Job Description : J OB SUMMARY
The partners with senior leadership to drive strategic and operational success across critical areas of the organization. Acting as a trusted advisor, the Business Lead manages key initiatives, optimizes workflows, and ensures alignment with organizational goals. This position offers the opportunity to influence at a leadership level, with potential for leadership development. The role spans strategic planning, project management, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance efficiency, innovation, and team performance.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
- Lead and manage high-impact business programs, services, and initiatives across products, platforms, and teams, ensuring execution, reporting, and stakeholder alignment.
- Support leadership by translating strategy into actionable plans and driving execution on cross-departmental projects and initiatives.
- Collaborate with regional teams and cross-functional partners to manage schedules, scope, budgets, risks, KPIs, and findings for key projects.
- Develop and present data-driven insights and visuals to inform decision-making, optimize resource allocation and improve the customer experience.
- Serve as a liaison between leadership and internal / external stakeholders to ensure transparent communication and alignment on strategic priorities.
- Drive communication strategies to keep stakeholders informed, engaged, and empowered to make informed decisions. Manage and facilitate meetings, including agenda preparation, follow-ups, and tracking of action items.
- Lead efforts to identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives, sharing best practices across teams.
- Oversee strategic projects and ad-hoc initiatives as assigned by leadership, ensuring timely and successful delivery.
- Prepare impactful presentations and briefing materials for senior leaders, including Business Leadership and external stakeholders.
- Champion efforts that build synergy, trust, collaboration, and inclusivity within the organization. Own and manage relationships with key partners, resources, colleagues, and leaders ensuring transparency around critical decisions and trade-offs.
- Create, monitor, and control metrics impacting program / product and team quality and reporting on risk.
- Partner and support long term planning and budgeting for products and services.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, providing guidance and performance management to team members where applicable.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Experience
Knowledge & Skills
EXTRA POINTS
OUR WORLD
At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, weve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. Were on a quest : bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiencesever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard secret recipe, but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.
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 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 - weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including :
