Senior Manager, Strategy -- Chief of Staff & Strategic Initiatives

Electronic Arts creates incredible entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story, part of a community that connects people globally. It's a place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are welcomed, and ideas matter. 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.
• 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.