Director, Business Operations

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The Operations Team is responsible for project managing the business units workload (and resourcing needs) to achieve B/U objectives on time, within scope, and on budget. This team will create effective and efficient scalable processes and frameworks to enable best in class product management & marketing, coupled with real-time learning and organizational transformation, enabling us to deliver 2K’s first top-rated, F2P, fully live-service game. 

The Operations team is divided into 2 sub-teams:  Game-Operations (‘Producers’) and Business-Operations (‘Managers’).

What We Need

Director, Business Operations with a focus on delivering outcomes consistently and predictably in an extremely fast paced and every changing environment. You will help manage the day-to-day business operations working to support productivity, with primary responsibility for coordinating the timely delivery of critical BU marketing and business initiatives. This will be done through process development and refinement, milestone mapping, coordination and communication across key stakeholders around the globe.

First-level strategic leader who can provide direction for the team to meet business objectives. Success depends on the collective performance of the team(s), not a single individual.

A specialist in driving cross-functional projects, strategic & tactical, and a capable problem solver used to managing multiple tasks & projects to completion while navigating opposing demands and priorities.

Regularly handling the oversight of global projects with interdepartmental collaboration, you will have excellent relationship building & stakeholder management skills and must have the confidence to work independently and across various levels. A proactive and detail oriented strategic planner with excellent project management, planning and decision making skills.  You will also have proven experience in managing multiple direct reports, helping to mentor and grow them, while providing guidance on career and performance.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate across the BU team to scale business operations for a F2P full live service game.
• Support the Operations function for all cross-functional projects:
  • Providing clear articulation on marketing projects and the desired outcomes.
  • Create standard operating procedures, and templates for materials (as needed).
  • Track progress, resolve delays and risk when possible, and quickly escalate when not. 
  • Strive for consistency and predictability in all things.
  • Be highly adaptable to changing priorities, scope and deadlines.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans, timelines and reports, ensuring transparency and effective communication across the b/u and wider organization.
  • Ensure a single source of truth for projects to enable accurate information sharing.
    • Single source of truth to include roadmaps, calendars, key artifacts (documents), shared Google drive, and the project Confluence page.
• Coordinate with internal and shared service partners across Game Operations, Product Management, Marketing, Commercial, Analytics, First Party Partnerships, Comms, Player Services, User Research, User T