Senior Business Operations Manager, Bungie
Destiny 2
$132-158k
Video game studio
Job no longer available
Video game studio
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$132-158k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create hopeful worlds that inspire passionate player communities and lifelong friendships.
Role
Who you are
- Proven project management skills, including building and maintaining work backlogs, tracking, scheduling, and driving projects to completion
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to deliver executive presentations and communicate studio wide
- Ability to lead cooperative efforts among members across disciplines and projects
- Demonstrated experience in rapidly learning new methods and processes and adapting them to critical business needs
- Strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to drive high-value meetings, navigate challenging discussions, and establish clear action items and accountability
- Proven ability to understand, simplify, and solve problems in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment
- Experience with agile/scrum development processes and tools
Desirable
- Proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, TFS, Asana, or similar
- Experience in the gaming industry
- Experience working with leadership teams
- Experience crafting communications for individuals at all levels, from the executive team to the entire company
What the job involves
- Lead the strategic and operations planning process across the business unit with the GM of Destiny 2 and D2LT
- Drive execution of strategic initiatives and special projects
- Become a trusted partner to the Destiny 2 Leadership Team (D2LT) driving impactful change through focus and prioritization
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the business, including publishing, development, and finance teams
- Facilitate teamwork, alignment and transparency between different Destiny projects and teams, resolving any dysfunctions as they occur
- Maintain the database of executive work – strategic initiatives, tasks, and action items
- Enable a highly productive and engaged senior leadership team, via effective facilitation, decision-making, and follow through
- Challenge the status quo and continuously improve D2LT's velocity, teamwork, and transparency
- Own ongoing, rigorous status communications, tracking progress against annual goals and initiatives
- Create regular communications tailored to Destiny 2 stakeholders, the Bungie studio, and partners
- Manage the rhythm of the business in coordination with the studio-wide ROB calendar
- Ensure successful execution of strategic and annual planning, quarterly business reviews, and budgeting
- Contribute to the Business Operations discipline at Bungie by driving best practices
- Report to Director of Business Operations and be accountable to the Destiny 2 General Manager
Our take
As one of the leading video game companies in the US, Bungie’s former titles have included bestselling game franchises such as Halo and Destiny, marking it as a next-gen studio that is keeping its finger on the next-gen games console pulse.
Bungie scaled up in the early noughties thanks to an acquisition by Microsoft, leading to a period where Bungie made games for a variety of consoles. In 2022, it was bought by Sony for $3.6 billion, though it claims that it will still work across different platforms despite its owner’s lean towards PlayStation.
Indeed, Sony claims to have bought Bungie for its help in entering the live service games market. In return, Bungie will benefit by scaling up its team for new game and DLC releases. This is a promising direction, although it is worth noting that the underperformance of Destiny 2 has cast a few worries on the nature of Bungie's independent future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2018
$100m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Contract and International FTE employees receive competitive benefits through their relevant contracting agency
- 20 days of accrued time-off in the form of PTO and sabbatical days, depending on the level of the position
- 10 paid Floating Days annually, prorated in the first year of employment based on start date
- 10 paid Bungie-observed holidays annually
- One hour of Paid Sick Time (PST) for every 30 hours worked
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Pete Parsons
(CEO & Chairman)Currently Board member for Boys and Girls Clubs of Bellevue. Previously Co-Founder and Inventor of Meteor Solutions, and an Executive Producer at Microsoft.
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