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- Product Operating Model & Portfolio Clarity Maintain product operating rhythms, portfolio views, decision forums, roadmap artifacts, status updates, and escalation paths across Minecraft Online (MCO) that help distributed teams make crisp decisions and execute predictably. Drive alignment across multiple initiatives at different stages of maturity, from early opportunity framing and intake through prioritization, greenlight, delivery, go-to-market, launch, and retrospectives. Ensure cross-functional partners have the customer context, product rationale, timing, trade-offs, and decisions needed to deliver franchise moments and studio commitments with quality. Facilitate crisp decision-making by framing options, trade-offs, owners, deadlines, customer impact, business impact, and execution implications for leaders and cross-functional stakeholders. Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. 1+ year(s) people management experience. Experience in games, live services, entertainment franchises, consumer products, publishing, creator ecosystems, marketplaces, or digital experiences. 10+ years in product management, program management, product operations, or related roles. 5+ years leading complex, cross-functional product initiatives across multiple teams, disciplines, or organizations. Experience driving product strategy, roadmap planning, prioritization, dependency management, stakeholder alignment, metrics, and execution for large-scale products, services, games, or entertainment initiatives. Experience coordinating product work across product, engineering, design, marketing, business development, legal, licensing, analytics, operations, and executive stakeholders. Proven product leadership skills, including customer insight, roadmap strategy, success metrics, launch readiness, portfolio tracking, decision framing, executive communication, and operational rigor. Ability to bring clarity to ambiguity, influence without authority, and drive accountability across distributed teams and stakeholders. Passion for games and deep empathy for Minecraft players, creators, partners, communities, and the teams that serve them.
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