# Director, Player Experience (PX) Research

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

At Electronic Arts, players are at the heart of everything we create. The Director, PX Research leads a global team of researchers dedicated to uncovering the insights that shape exceptional player experiences and drive the future of play.

Core Responsibilities:

- Define and Execute the PX Research Vision: Establish the strategic direction for PX Research, ensuring player insights fuel decisions across the full product lifecycle.

- Lead and Develop an Industry Leading Team: Inspire, mentor, and empower a diverse team of research leaders and individual contributors to deliver high-quality, high-impact work.

- Activate Insights Across the Ecosystem: Partner closely with central partners to unify qualitative, quantitative, and behavioral data into holistic player stories that drive actionable outcomes.

- Influence Strategy at Scale: Maintain a deep understanding of each franchise's long-term strategy, objectives, and success metrics.

- Advance Research Craft and Methodology: Evolve and continuously improve how PX Research captures, interprets, and shares insights.

- Operational Excellence and Measurable Impact: Partner with PX Research Operations to build clear, connected research roadmaps that scale best practices.

Qualifications:

- 12+ years of experience in player or user research, consumer insights, or related fields, including 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary research teams.

- Proven track record developing and executing a research strategy that influences both creative and business outcomes.

- Experience collaborating with analytics, data science, and market research teams to synthesize insights and drive strategic decision-making.

- Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor, motivate, and grow a distributed, diverse research organization.

- Excellent storytelling, presentation, and influence skills.

- Expertise in mixed-methods research, with strong fluency in qualitative, quantitative, and telemetry-based approaches.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, mental wellness support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

- Flexible work arrangements, including hybrid and remote work options.

## Skills

### Required
- player research
- user research
- consumer insights
- research strategy
- leadership
- team management
- data analysis
- qualitative research
- quantitative research
- telemetry-based approaches
- storytelling
- presentation
- influence skills

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