What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager, Merchandising position at Blizzard Entertainment?
Responsibilities :
- Merchandise digital products on Battle.net. Curate compelling browsing experiences and effective purchase flows on the Shop and App.
- Develop and maintain merchandising playbooks and educate studio stakeholders on best practices.
- Maintain merchandising calendars.
- Leverage web analytics tools to identify trends in traffic, conversion, and revenue and create ad-hoc reports to share the findings.
- Maximize the performance of a digital product portfolio by extracting data insights, developing optimization hypotheses, and then AB testing solution alternatives.
- Synthesize stakeholders goals, detailed requirements, and technical limitations into an actionable merchandising strategy.
- Provide a forward-looking perspective on supporting new game launches and facilitate go-to-market reviews on your platform.
- Advocate for the short- and long-term goals of game team stakeholders when partnering with Battle.net product owners to advise new product features.
- Advocate for the short- and long-term goals of Battle.net product owners when partnering with game team stakeholders to maximize the performance of their content on our platform.
- Keep stakeholders informed on the priority and status of active and backlogged requests and projects.
- Intake, prioritize, and address configuration requests from internal stakeholders (Game Development, Publishing, Commercial, Legal, and Risk).
- Proactively identify and mitigate execution and performative risks.
- Manage relationships with the regional publishing teams and support regional activations on Battle.net.
- Manage complex deployments.
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Your Platform
Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (), a division of Activision Blizzard, which wasacquiredby Microsoft (NASDAQ : MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industrys most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, witha track recordthat 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
Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media,technologyand 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 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!
Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrivein order toconnect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical,emotionaland financial well-being for Every World -wevegot our employees covered!
Thevideogameindustry 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.
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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 :
