Senior Manager, Marketing Measurement & Optimization, Minecraft

Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

$106K/yr – $223K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross channel measurement and forecasting for paid, affiliate, and lifecycle marketing to drive investment decisions and leadership reviews.

  • Channel ownership: single source of truth for performance across paid, affiliate, and lifecycle marketing.
  • Forecasting: driver-based models linking budgets to user acquisition, retention, and revenue outcomes.
  • Optimization and experiments: real-time signals to steer bids, creative rotation, audiences, and spend; evolves attribution to quantify true channel contribution.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end performance marketing measurement across Paid Media, Affiliate Marketing, and Player Lifecycle Marketing (Email, Web), ensuring consistent KPIs, data integrity, and always-on visibility across the digital marketing ecosystem.
  • Lead marketing forecasting at the channel and portfolio level, building driver-based models that translate budget scenarios into projected player acquisition, retention, and revenue outcomes.
  • Drive real-time optimization and feedback loops, delivering performance signals that inform bid strategy, creative rotation, audience targeting, and budget pacing across paid and owned channels.
  • Design and operate an experimentation roadmap (A/B tests, geo holdouts, incrementality studies) and evolve attribution methodology to quantify the true contribution of each channel.
  • Build and own executive, operational, and channel-level dashboards that give every stakeholder a trusted, single source of truth for performance.
  • Develop AI-powered workflows and automation, including anomaly detection, and automated insight summaries to accelerate the speed from data to decision.
  • Own affiliate performance measurement, including publisher-level attribution, postback validation, incrementality, and commission efficiency, deduplicated against paid and organic conversions.
  • Measure Player Lifecycle Marketing across Email and Web, tracking engagement, conversion, and downstream revenue while surfacing segmentation and personalization opportunities.
  • Deliver always-on reporting and measurement support to the Social and Influence teams, quantifying the contribution of organic social, creator, and influencer programs to brand and acquisition goals.
  • Translate complex data into compelling narratives and investment recommendations that influence decisions by the Head of Digital Marketing and senior leadership.
  • Lead recurring executive performance reviews, including monthly business reviews and quarterly planning readouts, in language accessible to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Partner across Marketing, PADI, Finance, and agency teams to define success metrics, align measurement to business goals, and manage competing priorities.
  • Establish tracking governance standards (UTM taxonomy, tagging, naming conventions, and attribution rules) across paid platforms, affiliate networks, and CRM/ESP systems.
  • Champion data literacy and continuous improvement through templates, playbooks, and training that help teams independently act on performance insights.
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Founded in 1975
Redmond, Washington, US
237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3B
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
56.9%
Referral
7.3%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~225.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6,377 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
21 years
Median Tenure
14 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
44

Funding

Total Funding
$1M
Last Raise
$1M
Post IPO Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jan 2020
    Post IPO Equity
  • Sep 1981
    Series Unknown • $1M

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