Description
EA SPORTS FC is building the future of football fandom. As Senior Director, Creative, you will lead the development of world-class creative platforms, campaigns, content, and brand experiences that connect millions of football fans around the world to the game they love.
Reporting into senior Creative Studio leadership, you will define and drive the global creative vision for EA SPORTS FC across global marketing initiatives, product launches, live service moments, partnerships, athlete and creator programs, social content, and cultural activations.
You will lead a global team of creative talent while influencing a broad network of cross-functional partners, agencies, and stakeholders to deliver ambitious, culturally relevant work that breaks through in an increasingly competitive entertainment landscape.
Responsibilities
- Define and champion the global creative vision for EA SPORTS FC, ensuring a consistent and distinctive brand experience across all consumer touchpoints.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a global team of creative leaders, producers, creatives, strategists, and content makers across multiple regions and disciplines.
- Develop breakthrough creative platforms and campaigns that drive awareness, engagement, and cultural relevance at a global scale.
- Partner with marketing, game development, publishing, product, communications, partnerships, esports, and regional teams to bring integrated creative ideas to life.
- Elevate the ambition and quality of creative output across both direct and indirect reporting lines, creating an environment where exceptional work can thrive.
- Influence senior stakeholders across the organization, aligning teams around a clear creative vision and driving consensus on major initiatives.
- Oversee creative development from strategic briefing through execution, ensuring excellence across advertising, social, experiential, digital, video, partnerships, and emerging platforms.
- Build effective relationships with external agencies, production partners, creators, athletes, leagues, clubs, and cultural collaborators.
- Champion fan-first storytelling rooted in football culture, ensuring work authentically reflects the passion, diversity, and global reach of the sport.
- Drive innovation across content formats and channels, identifying new opportunities to engage audiences wherever they spend their time.
- Establish creative standards, processes, and ways of working that enable scale while maintaining world-class quality.
- Use audience insights, performance data, and cultural intelligence to inform creative decisions and continuously improve effectiveness.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience leading creative, brand, marketing, or content organizations, with significant experience in senior leadership roles.
- Proven track record of leading global creative teams and managing multidisciplinary talent across multiple regions and markets.
- Demonstrated success developing creative platforms, campaigns, and content that achieved significant visibility, cultural impact, and business results.
- Deep experience influencing and leading large-scale global campaigns involving multiple stakeholders, partners, and channels.
- Strong understanding of football culture, fandom, and the evolving dynamics of how fans engage with the sport and its many touchpoints worldwide.
- Deep fluency across modern content ecosystems, including social platforms, creator partnerships, digital media, experiential, broadcast, streaming, and emerging channels.
- Exceptional creative judgment and storytelling instincts, with a portfolio of work that demonstrates breakthrough thinking and executional excellence.
- Experience leading through influence, inspiring both direct reports and cross-functional teams to raise the ambition and effectiveness of their work.
- Strong strategic and commercial acumen, with the ability to connect creative decisions to business outcomes.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience influencing executive leadership and external partners.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package, including health care services, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.
- Flexible work arrangements, including hybrid work options.