Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. As Team Xbox, we are on a mission to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We deliver on that vision by putting players at the center, enabling you to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want. We work with gaming publishers, developers, platform, and technology partners from around the world to bring Xbox and Windows games and services (e.g., Game Pass, Xbox Cloud Gaming) to Microsoft’s customers.  

The Global Platform Business Development team at Microsoft is looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to help drive platform growth for Xbox through strategic partnerships and business development. You will have the opportunity to work across various teams in Xbox including product, engineering, marketing, finance, legal, sales, and others, as well as a broad set of additional stakeholders across Microsoft. 

In this role, you will serve as a key team member on the Platform Gaming Business Development team and be responsible for driving select partnership engagement, deal negotiations, execution success for new and existing deals, and ongoing deal governance and optimization. This candidate will have business development, Go-To-Market (GTM), and partner management experience, and possess collaboration and analytical capabilities with a passion for consumer technology. You will be a deal maker, with a focus on identifying new strategic partnership opportunities to accelerate margin growth.   

The position is based in the United States, with consideration for onsite and/or virtual work flexibility and will require international and domestic travel. This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position.