Senior Director, Minecraft Ecosystem Experiences and Services – Mojang Studios

As part of the Ecosystem Experiences & Services team at Mojang, this role will report to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and partner closely with studio leadership to drive product innovation to deliver the best experience to our players and fans.   

We are looking for an experienced Senior Director, Minecraft Ecosystem Experiences and Services- Mojang Studios,  who would drive new capabilities to build efficient, scalable, performant, resilient products and services. With a technical background combined with product experience focus, you will provide leadership for multi-disciplinary teams that focuses across the franchise. Each part of your team will possess a deep understanding and experience of the technology and services they provide. Your role will be a leader that can bring the best out of these teams and lead them with clarity and confidence. 

Preferably you have worked in multi-disciplined teams to build and release a wide variety of services, features and games with both client and backend/live service considerations as well as their implications to business, production and design.  

This position will require you to bring a balanced set of scalability and data driven framework to make informed decisions with an end user focus, partner engagement/collaboration and execution commitment. You will be work with product teams across the studio, have executive exposure, and be given great opportunities for growth and impact.   

Collaborate – Be a driver of partnership and collaborations across Mojang, Xbox, and Microsoft. Build good relationships that run on trust and collaboration. Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the player experience, the teams you collaborate with and continuously work towards evolving as our business needs shift.   

Innovate – Care deeply      about continuous development, improvement and quality delivery. You are committed to defining and achieving a high-quality bar across the teams you lead. You help your teams create optimizations for achieving higher utilization and scale while maintaining pragmatic decisions.  You are looking at the horizon of technology to identify where those technologies can optimize game development (a great example is how we can create an enhanced security across multiple vectors responsibly and benefit our teams as well as our community).  

Guide – Define the business goals and product vision with your teams and create and execute a roadmap to meet those goals. Through aligned priorities you will build a vision for evolving your teams along with the franchise goals, priorities and vision.  You will be adept at making pragmatic decisions and tradeoffs that enable teams to make fast progress to achieve objectives while keeping in mind the franchise future strategy and commitment to quality. 

Lead your teams and motivate them to be part of building a better world for Minecraft fans worldwide! 

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