# Senior Manager, Business Development

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Redwood City, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a strategic, relationship-driven Senior Manager, Business Development to help shape and grow partnerships with leading gaming platforms.

You will serve as the primary business interface between EA and a portfolio of first-party and emerging platform partners, driving initiatives that accelerate player acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own strategic relationships with assigned 1st party and emerging platform partners, serving as EA's primary point of contact.

- Maintain a deep understanding of partner strategies, product roadmaps, business priorities, and evolving platform policies.

- Identify, evaluate, and execute strategic partnership opportunities that drive growth for EA and our partners.

- Lead business terms negotiations end-to-end from opportunity identification through contract execution for subscription programs, hardware bundles, co-marketing, digital merchandising, and distribution deals, partnering closely with Legal.

- Drive cross-functional alignment across Finance, Legal, Studios, Marketing, Publishing, and Partner Management to execute partnership initiatives and resolve issues.

- Coordinate launch readiness for new titles and live-service content with platform partners.

- Monitor partnership performance against KPIs; conduct post-launch/post-partnership reviews and maintain deal trackers and forecasts.

- Drive internal decision-making by balancing business opportunities with operational and business priorities.

- Prepare and deliver business reviews, executive updates, and strategic recommendations to EA leadership; represent EA at partner and industry engagements.

- Represent EA during executive meetings, industry events, and partner engagements.

Qualifications:

- 7+ years in Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Account Management, or Commercial Strategy, managing strategic commercial relationships in video games, entertainment, or digital commerce.

- Experience working across finance, legal, product, publishing, and marketing.

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Economics, or equivalent experience.

- Track record leading complex negotiations and executing partnership agreements; experience negotiating contracts in partnership with Legal.

- Preferred: direct experience with platform partners such as Sony Interactive Entertainment, Nintendo, Microsoft, and familiarity with digital distribution and platform ecosystems.

Success in This Role:

- Trusted, long-term relationships with key platform partners.

- High-impact commercial agreements that drive player growth and support EA's strategic priorities.

- Strong cross-functional execution of partnership initiatives, on time and with accurate forecasting and reporting.

## Skills

### Required
- Business Development
- Strategic Partnerships
- Account Management
- Commercial Strategy
- Negotiation
- Contract Execution

### Nice to have
- Platform Partners
- Digital Distribution
- Gaming Industry

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