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Senior Business Development Manager - XBOX

2026-02-04

United Kingdom, Berkshire, Reading

2 days / week in-office

Overview Overview:Here is your opportunity to play a central role in negotiating deals and partnerships within Microsoft’s high-profile videogame business. The Global 3rd Party Business Development Team is hiring a Sr. Business Development Manager based in Europe. On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. 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, xCloud) to Microsoft’s customers, and platform offerings to its creators and partners. How we work:At Microsoft, and within Team Xbox, we believe how results are achieved is as important as what is delivered. We value collaboration, trust, transparency, and inclusive decision‑making. This role requires strong interpersonal judgment, the ability to influence without authority, and a genuine commitment to building long‑term, respectful partnerships – internally and externally. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys working through ambiguity, values diverse perspectives, and takes pride in building durable outcomes—not just closing deals. Responsibilities Responsibilities:As part of our team, you will lead business development activities with gaming publishers and developers (including the ID@Xbox community). You will land new content, service and cloud partnerships and extend existing ones to ensure Microsoft’s platforms are the best place for games. In addition, you will help shape the assumptions and fundamentals of Microsoft’s gaming strategy as a member of the broader Xbox team and as a project manager on various gaming initiatives. <ul type="disc"><li>Build, maintain, and foster trusted, long‑term relationships with new and existing gaming partners through active listening, empathy, and collaborative problem‑solving.</li><li>Partner closely with legal, finance, marketing, planning, and partner management teams to co‑create solutions, align stakeholders, and navigate complex decision‑making in a respectful and transparent way.</li><li>Drive relevant business modelling, forecasting, portfolio planning, and post-launch success validation efforts.</li><li>Guide all publishing partnerships and agreements through the Microsoft contract execution process.</li><li>Maintain a high-level of internal and external partner satisfaction by communicating clearly, setting expectations early, and addressing issues constructively.</li><li>Work with management across Europe, Asia, and the Americas to shape our games business strategy and policies.</li><li>Drive the regional execution and operation of Microsoft’s games initiatives across multiple product groups, subsidiaries, and regional organizations. </li></ul> Qualifications Qualifications:<ul type="disc"><li>Passionate and knowledgeable about all forms of interactive entertainment and experience in the console and PC gaming industry.</li><li>Thorough understanding of game developers, publishers, and their needs.</li><li>Substantial experience spanning business development and strategy in gaming and interactive entertainment, with an understanding for publishing, distribution, development, and technology deals.</li><li>Strong negotiation, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to reach outcomes that balance partner needs, long‑term relationships, and Microsoft’s strategic goals.</li><li>Strong business acumen and ability to think strategically and execute tactically.</li><li>Ability to work independently and juggle multiple projects and priorities.</li><li>Cross-functional work experience within business development, finance, and marketing.</li><li>Demonstrated learning mindset, curiosity, and the ability to quickly develop context across technical, commercial, and operational domains.</li><li>BA/BSc (or equivalent) in business or technology required; MBA or MA a plus.</li><li>Additional language fluency a plus. </li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Business Development Manager - XBOX

2026-02-04

United Kingdom, Berkshire, Reading

1 day / week in-office

Overview Overview:Here is your opportunity to play a central role in negotiating deals and partnerships within Microsoft’s high-profile videogame business. The Global 3rd Party Business Development Team is hiring a Sr. Business Development Manager based in Europe. On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. 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, xCloud) to Microsoft’s customers, and platform offerings to its creators and partners. How we work:At Microsoft, and within Team Xbox, we believe how results are achieved is as important as what is delivered. We value collaboration, trust, transparency, and inclusive decision‑making. This role requires strong interpersonal judgment, the ability to influence without authority, and a genuine commitment to building long‑term, respectful partnerships – internally and externally. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys working through ambiguity, values diverse perspectives, and takes pride in building durable outcomes—not just closing deals. Responsibilities As part of our team, you will lead business development activities with gaming publishers and developers (including the ID@Xbox community). You will land new content, service and cloud partnerships and extend existing ones to ensure Microsoft’s platforms are the best place for games. In addition, you will help shape the assumptions and fundamentals of Microsoft’s gaming strategy as a member of the broader Xbox team and as a project manager on various gaming initiatives. <ul type="disc"><li>Build, maintain, and foster trusted, long‑term relationships with new and existing gaming partners through active listening, empathy, and collaborative problem‑solving.</li><li>Partner closely with legal, finance, marketing, planning, and partner management teams to co‑create solutions, align stakeholders, and navigate complex decision‑making in a respectful and transparent way.</li><li>Drive relevant business modelling, forecasting, portfolio planning, and post-launch success validation efforts.</li><li>Guide all publishing partnerships and agreements through the Microsoft contract execution process.</li><li>Maintain a high-level of internal and external partner satisfaction by communicating clearly, setting expectations early, and addressing issues constructively.</li><li>Work with management across Europe, Asia, and the Americas to shape our games business strategy and policies.</li><li>Drive the regional execution and operation of Microsoft’s games initiatives across multiple product groups, subsidiaries, and regional organizations. </li></ul> Qualifications <ul type="disc"><li>Passionate and knowledgeable about all forms of interactive entertainment and experience in the console and PC gaming industry.</li><li>Thorough understanding of game developers, publishers, and their needs.</li><li>Substantial experience spanning business development and strategy in gaming and interactive entertainment, with an understanding for publishing, distribution, development, and technology deals.</li><li>Strong negotiation, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to reach outcomes that balance partner needs, long‑term relationships, and Microsoft’s strategic goals.</li><li>Strong business acumen and ability to think strategically and execute tactically.</li><li>Ability to work independently and juggle multiple projects and priorities.</li><li>Cross-functional work experience within business development, finance, and marketing.</li><li>Demonstrated learning mindset, curiosity, and the ability to quickly develop context across technical, commercial, and operational domains.</li><li>BA/BSc (or equivalent) in business or technology required; MBA or MA a plus.</li><li>Additional language fluency a plus. </li></ul> The position is based in the UK, 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. The scope and level of this role may be adjusted based on candidate experience and demonstrated impact and the actual duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcareers.microsoft.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Faccommodationrequest&data=05%7C02%7Cmfinnigan%40xbox.com%7Cde47cbba7a224f1a39fa08de620c3689%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C639056001778300831%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8YxiY2Fq9IkNTI%2Bei49ip0O4V4UXLWBxqn4VM%2Bb6a4A%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Accommodation request form</a>. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Senior Security Engineer

2026-02-04

United Kingdom, Berkshire, Reading +2 more

3 days / week in-office

Overview The Microsoft Offensive Research & Security Engineering (MORSE) organization is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to advance Microsoft’s runtime vulnerability detection capabilities across Windows, Azure, and Microsoft’s broader platform ecosystem. You will design, maintain, and scale the sanitizers and instrumentation technologies that help engineering teams discover critical security vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle. MORSE secures Microsoft’s operating systems, cloud platforms, and virtualization technologies used by over a billion customers worldwide. You’ll work closely with partner teams across Windows, Hyper‑V, Azure, and developer-tooling to integrate dynamic analysis such as Address Sanitizer as well as code-coverage instrumentation into large‑scale build, validation, and fuzzing workflows. This role is an excellent opportunity for engineers who enjoy deep systems work, solving complex debugging challenges, and delivering high‑impact security improvements across Microsoft’s products.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability. Responsibilities <ul><li>Evolve and maintain Microsoft’s dynamic detection and sanitizer stack (e.g., ASAN, SanCov), ensuring broad coverage across user‑mode and kernel‑mode components.</li><li>Identify gaps in runtime bug detection and develop new detection techniques, instrumentation strategies, or sanitizer variants to catch classes of memory safety, concurrency, race, and API‑misuse bugs at scale.</li><li>Improve performance, stability, and usability of sanitizers — reducing overhead, eliminating false positives, and enabling teams to run sanitizers continuously in their dev and CI workflows.</li><li>Collaborate with feature teams, tooling developers and scaling engineers to upstream sanitizer support, improve build system integration, and ensure that large repos build cleanly with sanitizers enabled.</li><li>Drive broad adoption across Windows and Azure engineering teams, including scaling rollout, integrating signals into branch health, and reducing technical debt from sanitizer‑discovered bugs.</li></ul> Qualifications <div>Required Qualifications:</div><ul><li>Substantial industry experience in software development or security engineering.</li><li>Experience programming in a systems language (C, C++, or Rust).</li></ul>Other Requirements:<ul><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check:<ul style="list-style-type: circle;"><li>This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li></ul></li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Hands‑on experience with memory safety or concurrency debugging, dynamic analysis, or runtime instrumentation.</li><li>Experience working with compile time instrumentation such as the sanitizers or equivalent technologies.</li><li>Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals, particularly memory management, concurrency, and build systems.</li><li>Experience with Windows kernel, low‑level debugging, or vulnerability research.</li><li>Familiarity with large‑scale CI systems, build orchestration, and engineering productivity tooling.</li><li>Exposure to fuzzing frameworks, coverage instrumentation, or hybrid static‑dynamic detection technologies.</li><li>A public track record of security research or contributions to dynamic analysis tooling (open‑source or academic). </li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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