Drive a High-Performance Culture Through Performance Management:
Execute performance management programs that reinforcåe clarity, accountability, and high standards.
Strengthen manager capability to drive accountability, deliver high-quality feedback, and elevate team performance.
Enable business leaders to clearly assess and differentiate performance to ensure top talent is recognized and developed.
Build and scale tools, resources, and training that strengthen coaching capability and support continuous growth at all levels.
Lead 360 Feedback & Development Experiences:
Administer scalable 360 feedback programs including tool/vendor management, survey design, and participant experience.
Partner with Learning, Development & Performance Business Partners to effectively interpret results and guide leaders through development conversations
Integrate 360 feedback into broader talent processes, including performance management, talent reviews, and succession planning
Drive adoption of a continuous feedback culture by embedding 360 insights into ongoing performance and growth conversations, not just annual cycles.
Elevate Talent Review & Succession Planning:
Lead scalable, high-quality talent review processes that enable clear, data-informed talent decisions and prioritization.
Partner with HRBPs, Learning & Performance Business Partners, and business leaders to assess performance and potential, calibrate talent, and improve consistency and quality of talent decisions.
Support succession planning across business units for critical roles, strengthening bench depth and ensuring ready-now and ready-next successor pipelines.
Synthesize insights across performance, 360 feedback, and talent reviews to provide a holistic, data-driven view of talent and organizational health.
Translate talent insights into actionable outputs, including development actions, succession plans, and enterprise talent strategies.
Operate as a Performance Development SME Across Xbox:
Drive consistent, high-quality execution of performance and talent programs across multiple business units, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards within Microsoft Gaming.
Partner with HRBPs, Learning & Performance Business Partners and business leaders to adapt and implement programs in ways that reflect local business needs while maintaining global consistency.
Collaborate across regions and with Legal/HR partners to ensure programs are aligned with local regulatory requirements, employment practices, and cultural considerations
Act as a subject matter expert on performance development, feedback, and talent practices - guiding leaders to raise expectations and improve team outcomes.
Navigate and align across diverse stakeholders to drive adoption, consistency, and impact of COE-led programs at scale.
Use Data to Drive Better Talent Decisions:
Analyze and synthesize performance, feedback, and talent data to identify key trends, risks, and opportunities across the organization.
Translate data into clear, actionable insights that inform talent decisions, workforce planning, and development priorities.
Partner with People Insights to evolve how we measure performance, potential, and talent health, including metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
Enable leaders, Learning & Performance Business Partners and HRBPs to leverage data effectively in talent discussions, improving the quality and consistency of decision-making.
Deliver with Excellence:
Own end-to-end execution of key talent cycles across performance management, 360 feedback, talent reviews, and succession planning, ensuring a seamless and high-quality experience at scale.
Drive operational excellence across programs, managing timelines, dependencies, stakeholder alignment, and communications across multiple team
Additional Information
Job Title:
Performance Development Program Manager Requisition ID:
R027660 Job Description:
Job Title: Performance Development Program Manager
Reporting to: Associate Director, Chief of Strategy, Learning & Development
Department: Human Resources
Location: Santa Monica, CA / Irvine, CA
Your Mission:
At Xbox, we're at our best when our people are at their best. As Performance Development Program Manager within our Learning, Development & Performance Center of Excellence, you will power the systems, programs, and experiences that fuel a high-performance culture across our teams.
In this role, you will lead the execution of performance management, 360 feedback, talent review, and succession planning programs, ensuring that they are effective, efficient, and integrated with learning & development outcomes.
This role is about turning strategy into action. You'll partner closely with HR Business Partners, Legal, HR Centers of Excellence, and business leaders across multiple teams to ensure our talent practices are consistent, scalable, and built for impact, while still flexible enough to meet the needs of a dynamic, fast-moving organization.
Activision · Santa Monica, CA