# Director, Business Strategy

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Redwood City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $182,600 - $276,300 USD
**Category**: Strategy
**Industry**: Gaming
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Director-Business-Strategy/212771
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_02e18db8-744

## Description

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. As a Director, Business Strategy, you will help shape the future of one of the world's most influential interactive entertainment portfolios. You will provide connected, proactive, and data-informed thought partnership to EA's senior creative leaders, helping unlock growth, promote innovation, and maximize the long-term value of EA's world-class IP and development capabilities.

**Responsibilities**

- Be a trusted advisor to the senior creative leaders at EA, helping shape long-term strategy and translate it into near-term priorities.

- Provide proactive strategic perspective and connective tissue across EA's ecosystem, linking franchises, studios, commercial teams, and corporate strategy into a cohesive strategic narrative.

- Partner with the Strategic Intelligence function, using data, market intelligence, and insights to inform decision-making.

- Deliver expertise on how shifts in player behavior, fandom, platform dynamics, monetization models, and new technologies are reshaping interactive entertainment,and how EA can lead.

- Develop external relationships with senior strategy leaders across gaming, media, technology, and entertainment to inform EA's strategic outlook.

**Strategic Planning**

- Develop structured frameworks to evaluate strategic opportunities across EA, including new IP, franchise extensions, platform strategies, partnerships, and business models.

- Lead and deliver ad hoc market, financial, and scenario analyses to support studio & franchise leadership in navigating complex, high-stakes decisions.

- Guide select, strategic initiatives end-to-end, including opportunity assessments, long-range planning, and support for partnerships or M&A diligence.

- Collaborate with Development, Publishing, Finance, and Commercial teams to ensure franchise strategies align with EA's corporate strategy, financial goals, and long-term growth goals.

- Summarize insights into clear, data-backed recommendations for senior executives, the CEO, and Board of Directors.

**Promote Innovative Growth**

- Help promote EA's studio & franchise teams to innovate, experiment, and grow, while using EA's world-class IP, creative talent, technology, and development infrastructure.

- Support franchises and studios in balancing creative ambition with commercial discipline, helping translate vision into scalable, sustainable outcomes.

- Identify opportunities to extend franchises in, around, and beyond games, strengthening fan ecosystems and long-term engagement.

**Develop Strategy Talent**

- Foster a collaborative, inclusive culture that encourages curiosity, creativity, and strategic collaboration.

- Be a mentor, coach, and sponsor to Strategy team members, helping develop the next generation of strategic leaders at EA.

- Help the team to grow in impact and influence by providing guidance, context, and opportunities to operate at the highest levels of the organization.

**Requirements**

- 10+ years of relevant experience in strategy, corporate development, or related roles, with 3+ years in a management or team leadership capacity within media, technology, gaming, or entertainment.

- Experience developing large-scale strategies that bring measurable growth.

- Expertise partnering with senior executives and creative leaders, influencing decisions, and excelling in high-visibility situations.

- Experience balancing long-term strategic vision with immediate needs, bringing clarity, structure, and momentum to complex challenges.

- Experience with interactive entertainment, innovation, and building enduring franchises that resonate with players and fans worldwide.

## Skills

### Required
- strategy
- corporate development
- leadership
- gaming
- entertainment
- data analysis
- market research
- financial analysis
- scenario planning
- partnerships
- M&A