# Electronic Arts — Hiring Intelligence > Generated: 2026-05-05 · Source: · API: ## Profile - **Industry:** video game industry - **HQ:** Redwood Shores - **Headcount:** 13,700 - **Ticker:** EA - **Website:** ## Hiring trajectory - **Total enriched roles:** 395 - **26-week trend:** accelerating (week-over-week -53%) - **14-day momentum:** 265 recent vs 0 prior · stable (+0%) - **Market share:** 66.7% of industry (592 jobs across 7 companies) — rank 1 ## Where the hiring is | Category | Postings | | --- | ---: | | engineering | 293 | | design | 33 | | marketing | 23 | | finance | 14 | | operations | 10 | | it | 5 | | hr | 5 | | sales | 3 | ## Geographic distribution | Region | Postings | Share | | --- | ---: | ---: | | Canada | 136 | 34.5% | | Unknown | 88 | 22.3% | | EU | 46 | 11.7% | | United States | 38 | 9.6% | | APAC | 35 | 8.9% | | India | 31 | 7.9% | | United Kingdom | 9 | 2.3% | | Latin America | 8 | 2% | ### Emerging hubs (last 30 days) - **Canada:** 98 recent vs 5 prior (+1860%) - **Unknown:** 69 recent vs 2 prior (+3350%) - **APAC:** 30 recent vs 1 prior (+2900%) - **India:** 19 recent vs 3 prior (+533%) - **United States:** 19 recent vs 3 prior (+533%) ## Disproportionate skills (Location Quotient vs industry peers) LQ = (this company's share of postings with skill X) ÷ (peer industry's share of the same skill). Values >1 mean over-indexed; >2 means twice as common as peers. | Skill | Postings | This company % | Peer industry % | LQ | Required % | | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | | Google Cloud | 11 | 2.8% | 0.5% | 5.49 | 73% | | Terraform | 11 | 2.8% | 0.5% | 5.49 | 91% | | Cloud Platforms | 10 | 2.5% | 0.5% | 4.99 | 90% | | Composition | 10 | 2.5% | 0.5% | 4.99 | 90% | | Product Management | 19 | 4.8% | 1% | 4.74 | 95% | | Python | 55 | 13.9% | 3% | 4.57 | 91% | | CSS | 9 | 2.3% | 0.5% | 4.49 | 89% | | Game Engines | 8 | 2% | 0.5% | 3.99 | 75% | | Docker | 15 | 3.8% | 1% | 3.74 | 67% | | React | 7 | 1.8% | 0.5% | 3.49 | 86% | | Excellent Communication Skills | 13 | 3.3% | 1% | 3.24 | 46% | | Ci/cd Pipelines | 13 | 3.3% | 1% | 3.24 | 85% | | Benchmarking | 6 | 1.5% | 0.5% | 2.99 | 100% | | JavaScript | 12 | 3% | 1% | 2.99 | 92% | | Design | 6 | 1.5% | 0.5% | 2.99 | 67% | ## Salary positioning (USD, midpoint) - **Company median:** $193,650 (60th percentile of industry) - **Industry median:** $155,725 (sample n=27) - **Disclosure:** 7% of company roles disclose salary vs 7% across industry > ⚠️ Salary disclosed on fewer than 20% of roles — sample is small, treat ranges as indicative. ## Posting dynamics - **Median days open (closed roles):** 28 (industry: 11) - **Long-open postings (>90d still active):** 70 - **Closure rate (last 90d):** 52% ## Executive-level hires - **Last 30 days:** 25 exec/director-level postings - **Prior 90-day average:** 2.7 per 30-day window - **Growth:** +826% ### Notable exec roles (recent) - **Senior Director, Product Management -- Employee Experience Technology** — Austin _(posted 2026-04-30)_ - **Operations Director - Creative Innovation** — Vancouver _(posted 2026-04-29)_ - **Art Director** — Shanghai _(posted 2026-04-28)_ - **Development Director/Development Manager** — Hyderabad _(posted 2026-04-26)_ - **Battlefield Franchise Director, Asia Publishing** — Shanghai _(posted 2026-04-24)_ ## AI exposure - **Occupation-weighted score:** 0.283 (0 = manual / low automation, 1 = high automation potential) - **Skill-weighted score:** 0.481 ### Most-exposed roles - **Videogame Tester** — 12 postings, score 0.52 - **Localization Tester II - Swedish** — 8 postings, score 0.52 - **Software Engineer** — 5 postings, score 0.288 - **2D Graphic Artist** — 4 postings, score 0.357 - **Software Engineer II** — 3 postings, score 0.288 ## Peer set | Company | Postings | Similarity | Momentum | | --- | ---: | ---: | --- | | [Keywords Studios](https://yubhub.co/companies/keywords-studios) | 147 | 43% | stable | | [Valve Corporation](https://yubhub.co/companies/valve-corporation) | 17 | 40% | stable | | [Playground Games](https://yubhub.co/companies/playground-games) | 10 | 40% | stable | | [Respawn Entertainment](https://yubhub.co/companies/respawn-entertainment) | 13 | 20% | stable | ## Strategic themes _Strategy briefs are generated weekly by an LLM analysis of the company's posting tag distribution. This section will populate once Phase 4 of the company-intelligence pipeline ships._ ## Methodology & sources - **Last enriched:** 2026-03-20T16:22:42.130Z - **Company-data sources:** wikidata, fmp, github, news - **Job-data refresh:** continuous (queue pipeline). Aggregations cached at the edge for up to 24 hours. - **Caveats:** salary parser uses simple FX (snapshot 2024 rates); long-tail location strings may bucket as "Unknown"; AI-exposure scores derive from O*NET 30.2 + Anthropic Economic Index 2026-03-24. --- Data: