Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager

Job description

Company Description

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown!

Job Description

The Portfolio Strategy Senior Manager / Manager is responsible for driving awareness, excitement, and revenue readiness for upcoming titles/events through a combination of strategic planning and high-impact presentation.

The role orchestrates early and mid-stage commercial planning across the portfolio while ensuring that Ubisoft’s distribution partners are informed, aligned, and equipped to plan and execute effectively against each title’s value, opportunity, and path to market, enabling confident account-level planning and revenue execution.

This role ensures cross-functional alignment from the earliest stages of information sharing through to the finalization of the commercial offer, including regular updates throughout each product’s lifecycle.

In addition, the Portfolio Strategy Manager leads the development and continuous improvement of Sales enablement processes, tools, and forums at scale, and regularly interacts with key distribution partners, including first-party representatives, to reinforce commercial narratives and support effective partner engagement.

The ideal candidate brings an authentic passion for gaming, with a deep understanding of Ubisoft’s key franchises and their competitive landscape, and demonstrates the ability to connect player expectations, market trends, and commercial opportunities.

 

CH Scope: In partnership with another Portfolio Manager, this role supports a mix of titles across Creative Houses 2–5

Key Competencies

·  Communication & Stakeholder Influence: Highly effective communicator with excellent English proficiency and ease engaging diverse, senior stakeholders internally and externally. Crafts and delivers clear, compelling narratives, presentations, and messaging that drive clarity and informed decision-making with Sales, Partners, and leadership.
·  Strategic & Commercial Thinking: Strong ability to connect creative vision with commercial objectives, market dynamics, and player expectations through data-driven insights and past experience. Translates portfolio and title strategy into actionable go-to-market plans and partner-ready opportunities that support revenue outcomes.
·  Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven ability to align Studio/Marketing, Sales, and other cross-functional teams around shared goals. Navigates complexity, removes blockers, and drives collaboration across teams with differing priorities while maintaining accountability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Strategy & Cross-Functional Alignment

·  Maintain comprehensive knowledge of  assigned titles’ content and marketing strategy to advise product strategy formulation with internal and external partners, including timing, platform opportunities, and showcase participation
·  Attend and influence key workshops, contributing to the development of Sales go-to-market plans.
·  Ensure alignment between creative intent, business strategy, and commercial opportunities across the product lifecycle
·  Contribute to the structuring and consistency of go-to-market plans across the portfolio, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment with commercial objectives
·  Contribute to post-mortem discussions to inform future product and go-to-market strategies

2. Sales Enablement & Partner-Facing Communication

·  Craft and deliver partner-facing narratives for games and franchises, supported by business and franchise data to influence partners
·  Present key planning deliverables in partnership with Creative Houses, including Business Strategic Alignment materials and Sales Brief presentations
·  Equip Sales teams with high-quality tools (one-pagers, pitch decks, messaging frameworks) to support partner discussions and account planning
·  Ensure continuous and structured communication to Sales teams on game content, features, and timeline evolution
·  Support Shopper Marketing in shaping the appropriate commercial tone and messaging for each product

3. Sales Systems, Tools & Insights

·  Own and evolve Sales enablement infrastructure (planning workflows, tools, platforms such as SalesConnect, including the integration of AI-driven capabilities) to drive consistency, efficiency, and scalability across the Sales organization
·  Structure and optimize recurring Sales forums (weekly, monthly, Sales Calendar), including external-facing moments with key partners, by designing content, structure, and cadence that improve clarity, alignment, and decision-making throughout the product lifecycle
·  Integrate actionable insights (market trends, partner feedback, performance learnings) into Sales tools and processes, leveraging AI where relevant to enhance planning quality and commercial decision-making

Examples of Key Deliverables

·  Deliver “Business Strategic Alignment” and “Sales Briefs” materials and sessions, ensuring clear articulation of commercial strategy and priorities
·  Develop & present product pitch decks and Ubisoft Premiere materials, tailored for internal stakeholders and key partners
·  Deliver live games go-to-market updates, ensuring strategies continuously adapt to evolving lifecycle performance and market conditions
·  Build strategic case studies to inform future planning and highlight key success drivers
·  Drive Sales enablement tools and process improvements, enhancing efficiency, consistency, and scalability across the organization
·  Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of go-to-market planning frameworks and Sales playbooks, helping standardize and scale best practices across the portfolio.

Qualifications

·  A solid experience in go-to-market, brand marketing, shopper marketing, sales planning, commercial planning, finance, or a combination of these areas
·  Experience contributing to or leading cross-functional strategic initiatives in a complex, fast-paced organization
·  Strong understanding of the video game industry, with genuine interest in Ubisoft franchises, player expectations, and competitive dynamics
·  Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to craft clear narratives for senior stakeholders, Sales teams, and external partners
·  Strong critical thinking, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, synthesize complex inputs, and translate them into actionable recommendations
·  Proven ability to build trusted relationships across Creative Houses, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and external partners to drive alignment and overcome barriers
·  Highly organized, with strong process, project management, and planning discipline
·  Detail-oriented, able to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment while maintaining quality, accuracy, and clarity
·  Fluent in english is necessary

Additional Information

Ubisoft's perks

Profit Sharing, yearly company saving plan. 25 paid time off + 12 additional paid days off. 50% of your transportation pass is paid by the company, lunch vouchers (9€/day), healthcare for you and your family, and lots of Ubisoft additional perks.
Maternity leaves of 20 weeks, paternity/co-parental leaves of 7 weeks.
Possible location : Paris, France or Montréal, Canada or other European Ubisoft offices. 

Recruitment process

[30 minutes]: visio call with a Recruiter,
[60 minutes]: interview with the manager of the role and a Recruiter,
[60 minutes]: interview with Patrick Mercer and Jean Raymond, key role-partners with a good sense of the job and what it takes to be successful, both internally at Ubisoft, and externally with our Business Partners.
[30 minutes]: Discusion with Remi Perreault, N+2 Manager

Information about Ubisoft

Ubisoft offers the same job opportunities to all, without any distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability, or age. Ubisoft ensures the development of an inclusive work environment which mirrors the diversity of our gamers’ community.