Senior Business Planner, Gaming

Senior Business Planner, Gaming

United States, California, Los Angeles

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Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200061525

Date posted

Oct 30, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Program Management

Discipline

Technical Program Management

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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.

Microsoft 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.

Gaming 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.

Responsibilities

• Program / Project Management

• Develops detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables for their assigned workstream, consolidating milestones and dependencies across projects

• Identifies and manages interdependence across workstreams to avoid bottlenecks and ensure timely delivery

• Leads governance rhythms, enforcement, and execution excellence including regular updates to stakeholders, maintaining clarity on status and risks

• End-to-End Planning

• Develops strategic plans to drive and transform the gaming business across demand, supply, products, and platforms, and influences prioritization of initiatives within these areas

• Leads 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

• Works with cross-functional teams to ensure business and demand plans are comprehensive and rationalized across publishers, surfaces, and sales motions

• Supports publisher planning with sizing and business cases, including monetization and ad policy considerations

• Problem Solving and Insights

• Structures ambiguous situations into a defined plan, including root cause identification, hypothesis testing, and implementation of the proposal

• Leverages 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

• Leverages AI and automation to synthesize data and identify patterns, owning the integrity, relevance, and limitations of AI-generated insights used in business decision making

• Contributes to the Gaming Ads competitive intelligence rhythm and market benchmarking, and represents that evidence in product planning and prioritization forums

• Communication and Stakeholder Management

• Communicates and advocates plans to business leaders and conveys viewpoints through written documents such as memos, perspectives,