# Senior Manager, Strategy -- Chief of Staff & Strategic Initiatives **Company**: Electronic Arts **Location**: Redwood City, California **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Strategy **Industry**: Technology **Ticker**: EA **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941 **Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/sv_SE/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Manager-Strategy-Chief-of-Staff-Strategic-Initiatives/212954?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4a70d030-5e6 ## Description Electronic Arts creates entertainment that inspires players and fans around the world. The Strategy Team drives EA's long-term strategic direction, helping leadership navigate a rapidly evolving entertainment and technology landscape. We are looking for a Senior Manager to serve as Chief of Staff to the Vice President of Strategy and to own high-priority strategic initiatives across the function. This is a rare role that combines genuine operating partnership with a senior leader and hands-on strategic work at the center of EA's most consequential questions. Responsibilities: ### Team Operations and Leadership Partnership - Serve as the primary operating partner to the Vice President of Strategy, ensuring alignment of priorities, messaging, and operating cadence across the function. - Partner with the Vice President to define and steward the Strategy Team's mission, vision, and values, translating them into clear goals and a shared sense of what the team is known for across EA. - Own the goals process across the team, ensuring individual and sub-team goals ladder up to the function's commitments, and build the tracking and measurement to hold them. - Own the operating rhythm of the Strategy Team, including leadership team meetings, all-hands sessions, offsites, and knowledge-sharing forums. Set agendas, prepare materials, and drive follow-through. - Own budget, headcount, and financial planning for the Strategy Team, ensuring visibility and representation in the right corporate forums. - Partner with the Vice President and People Experience on team development, including development pathways, performance criteria, onboarding of new team members, and measurement of team health. - Steward Strategy Team communications, including team updates, leadership messages, and internal alignment materials. - Act as a connective and energizing presence across the team, bringing people together and building a collaborative, high-performing culture. - Support the preparation and orchestration of executive meetings and senior leadership forums, ensuring materials are cohesive, strategically grounded, and decision-oriented. ### Priority Initiatives - Own and drive high-priority strategic initiatives end-to-end, operating as a hands-on individual contributor on complex, sensitive analyses and as a coordinator of cross-functional efforts. - Lead workstreams spanning corporate strategy evolution, portfolio and adjacency assessments, M&A-related strategic diligence, partnership strategy, and executive-level materials. - Synthesize complex inputs into clear, compelling narratives and decision frameworks for senior leadership, enabling informed decision-making in fast-moving contexts. - Mobilize and coordinate Strategy, Finance, Corporate Development, and business unit stakeholders to deliver integrated, leadership-ready outputs. - Represent the Strategy Team across enterprise planning processes and cross-functional forums, partnering closely with Finance and other corporate teams on portfolio-level trade-offs and long-range planning. - Partner with Communications to translate strategy into clear internal and external narratives, and support executive communications and speaking engagements. Requirements: - 7+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, corporate development, or a related field. Experience in media, technology, gaming, or entertainment is a plus. - Track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from framing through to outcome in dynamic environments. - Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills, including financial modeling, scenario planning, and market analysis. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear, decision-oriented narratives. - Experience preparing executive-level materials and supporting senior leadership in high-visibility settings. - Genuine operational instinct. You bring structure and momentum to ambiguous work, and you are energized by building the processes and rhythms that make a team effective. - High judgment, discretion, and maturity. This role sits close to sensitive discussions and requires the ability to handle confidential matters with care. - A collaborative, energizing presence. You naturally convene people, ask good questions, and build relationships across an organization. - Passion for interactive entertainment, innovation, and building enduring franchises that resonate with players and fans worldwide. ## Skills ### Required - strategic planning - leadership - communication - financial modeling - scenario planning - market analysis ### Nice to have - management consulting - corporate strategy - investment banking - corporate development - media - technology - gaming - entertainment --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ea.com](https://jobs.ea.com/sv_SE/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Manager-Strategy-Chief-of-Staff-Strategic-Initiatives/212954?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)