Principal Product Manager, Gaming Monetization

Define and drive the product strategy for gaming monetization across XBOX and Activision Blizzard King, translating business opportunities into clear player and advertiser problems, product bets, success metrics, and execution plans. Lead product discovery across players, advertisers, studios, sales teams, and engineering partners to identify high-value monetization opportunities across mobile, console, and PC gaming, and sharpen the why now for each investment. Develop crisp product requirements, roadmap priorities, launch plans, and tradeoff recommendations that balance advertiser demand, player experience quality, marketplace economics, privacy, policy, and technical feasibility. Partner with engineering, data science, and design to ship scalable monetization products and measurement capabilities that improve yield, quality, relevance, and advertiser confidence across gaming surfaces. Use data, experimentation, player and customer feedback, and marketplace signals to evaluate product performance, diagnose issues, and make prioritization decisions. Help evolve gaming monetization from fragmented, surface-by-surface opportunities into a unified, premium, measurable, and durable product portfolio that scales across titles and platforms. Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. 3+ years experience driving product strategy, roadmap definition, requirements, and execution for complex software, advertising, marketplace, commerce, media, or platform products. Experience using data, experimentation, customer research, or business analysis to identify opportunities, make product tradeoffs, and measure outcomes. Experience partnering with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver products or features from concept through launch and iteration. Experience communicating (both written and verbal) with stakeholders at all levels while simplifying ambiguous problems and influencing without direct authority. Passion for gaming, with hands-on experience building games or gaming products, or a genuine interest in games, gaming platforms, and interactive entertainment. Experience with mobile monetization, including in-app advertising, in-game commerce, or free-to-play monetization models. 7+ years experience in product management, program management, strategy, business planning, advertising technology, marketplace products, or related roles. Experience in digital advertising, monetization, inventory quality, campaign management, yield optimization, brand safety, measurement, or media marketplaces. Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous, multi-stakeholder environments and convert early signals into structured product plans and measurable outcomes. Technical fluency with platform architecture, APIs, data pipelines, experimentation systems, privacy/security considerations, or machine learning-driven product experiences. Ability to reason across user experience, advertiser value, marketplace economics, partner incentives, and long-term platform strategy. A growth mindset, high judgment, and passion for building products that create customer value while earning user and partner trust.