Netflix is seeking a Head of Games Business Planning to lead their Games Business Planning team, which is critical for driving strategy, opportunity assessment, planning, analytics, and decision support across their games portfolio to advance the company's gaming initiative.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, corporate development, or related fields, within gaming, entertainment, and/or tech.
- Proven success leading high-performing, analytically driven teams in complex, matrixed organizations.
- Ability to translate complex data into clear narratives that drive strategic decisions.
- Passion for games and understanding of the evolving gaming landscape.
- A strong attention to detail and eye towards using the 80/20 rule to address problems.
- An MBA and Management Consulting experience are strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Partner with GMs to develop, refine, and execute vertical strategies, including defining clear goals, investment priorities, and short, mid, and long-term roadmaps.
- Vet content opportunities, support greenlighting, and ensure strategic alignment across game concepts, IPs, and partnerships.
- Provide analytical guidance on deal sourcing, developer pricing expectations, and portfolio additions, including anticipated cost efficiency and performance benchmarks.
- Drive pre-launch forecasting for titles and vertical portfolios, including opportunity sizing for new investment areas.
- Support GM in managing the financial aspects of each vertical, including partnering with FP&A to ensure verticals are operating against budget and identifying opportunities to redeploy capital against higher ROI opportunities.
- Oversee title-level and portfolio-level performance tracking, reporting, insights.
- Direct competitive analysis, opportunity sizing, and deep dives to uncover market trends and emerging opportunities relevant to partner verticals.
Other
- Manage, mentor, and grow a high-talent talent dense team
- Ensure your team operates as the GMs’ right hand, directly embedded in workflows, deeply understanding needs, and proactively driving outcomes.
- Strong communication and influence skills, with a track record of collaborating effectively and driving initiatives with cross-functional partners.
- Candidates must be willing to “roll up their sleeves” and be motivated, proactive, disciplined, flexible, and able to work with effective autonomy.
- This is not an ivory tower role; you will be an in-the-trenches partner to vertical GMs and will wear multiple hats across strategy, finance, and operations.
