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Director, Growth Marketing Analytics

Director, Growth Marketing Analytics

Blizzard EntertainmentIrvine, CA, US
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Director, Growth Marketing Analytics

We're seeking an experienced leader to head the Growth Marketing Analytics team. This person will translate strategic insights into actionable marketing plans while building strong cross-functional partnerships. This role will support the Paid Media and CRM & Lifecycle Marketing teams, driving performance optimization, refining audience strategies, and delivering measurable business impact across all marketing channels.

You have deep expertise in PC and console paid media performance measurement. You're fluent in advanced attribution for premium game launches, cross-platform funnel analysis, and top-down measurement for PC / console campaigns. You have hands-on experience with leading MMPs, and know how to unify insights across PC, console, and mobile to guide global campaign resource and investment decisions.

The ideal candidate is both a practitioner and leader, skilled in applying advanced analytics and measurement to provide stakeholders with the data they need to align and drive strategic initiatives. You have a strong record in testing and implementing media mix models, attribution frameworks, lift modeling, and A / B testing on a global scale. You can visualize data in near-real time and craft a compelling, evidence-based case for course corrections and future planning.

This position leads a global team that ensures regional market needs are met while aligning with global KPI and business goals.

Responsibilities

Leadership and Team Management

  • Lead a team of analysts to manage day-to-day operational reporting requirements, ad hoc analyses, and data visualizations
  • Collaborate closely with the Central Marketing Analytics team to align on holistic campaign measurement, integrating paid media performance into broader evaluations of brand, social, CRM, and go-to-market effectiveness
  • Partner with non-paid analytics stakeholders to ensure unified reporting frameworks and shared insight generation across the full marketing funnel, bridging paid media impact with cross-channel performance narratives
  • Communicate effectively and strategically with stakeholders to inform decision-making and drive alignment

Comprehensive Marketing Analytics

  • Design and implement real-time tracking across paid, owned and earned channels that provides a holistic look at our touch points, their impact, and interplay
  • Provide regular reports and insights to the executive team on performance, in-market tests, and near-term implications to spend and channel mix
  • Own reporting and analysis for all media metrics including owned / earned media
  • Tie together disparate business, marketing, and consumer data signals to fully extract paid / owned / earned media value and their contributions to revenue and audience growth
  • Assess how effectively and efficiently digital channels are driving customer purchase funnel objectives and provide data-informed insights to the operations team
  • Campaign Planning Support

  • Partner with Strategy & Activation teams to develop audience-first recommendations by understanding in-game player behaviors, monetization trends, and third-party segment performance
  • Determine the optimal mix and interplay of Blizzard "owned" and paid digital channels to reach our audiences most effectively and efficiently
  • Aid in forecasting performance for multi-channel marketing campaigns and tracking against those goals
  • Measurement Innovation and Experimentation

  • Create marketing mix models that help guide our go-to-market campaigns, ultimately guiding spend and channel weight / importance in all key regions
  • Implement A / B testing and analysis for media and CRM channels that provide stakeholders with an understanding of what is working and what could be improved in the player funnel
  • Drive further personalization by collaborating with data scientists to support and analyze hypothesis' using best practices for A / B testing, attribution models and media mix optimization
  • Player Profile

  • 12+ years of experience in paid media and CRM, including privacy-centric attribution, and incrementality testing
  • Hands-on experience with modern PC and console attribution platforms and working knowledge of both deterministic and probabilistic measurement in a privacy centric ecosystem preferred.
  • Proven track record designing and interpreting incrementality experiments, geo-lift tests, and MMM-based growth measurement.
  • Strong verbal and presentation skills to drive actionable insights for omnichannel planning & optimization against business objectives to leadership
  • Effective in taking complex data sets and building easy to understand visualizations
  • Expertise in SQL and a strong understanding of data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, etc.)
  • Ability to communicate complex data concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior executives.
  • Solution-minded individual with excellent problem-solving skills. Capable of thinking outside the box to bring new insight and hypothesis to the business
  • Comfortable working with and joining multiple data sets from various sources
  • Exposure to third party ad serving platforms (Sprinklr, Google Campaign Manager), web analytics (Google Analytics / Adobe Analytics), and third-party validation (IAS, DoubleVerify)
  • Knowledge of :
  • Custom qualitative digital measurement vendors preferred (Milward Brown, Research Now, Nielsen DAR / TAR)
  • Data visualization (Tableau, Power BI)
  • Paid media and mobile UA buying platforms, KPIs / media metrics, and attribution, including postbacks, SKAN schema configuration, conversion value mapping, and API integrations such as Meta's CAPI and Google's Privacy Sandbox)
  • Pluses

  • Advanced degree in data science, analytics, statistics, mathematics, or a related field
  • Proficiency in Python or R for statistical analysis.
  • Knowledge of audience listening tools and ASO / SEO analytics.
  • Passion for video games!
  • Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry's most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

    Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, Candy Crush and Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

    Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered!

    We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

    We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including :

  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
  • Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
  • If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
  • In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $120,600.00 - $223,110.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can

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