# 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

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## Description

Electronic Arts creates top-tier entertainment, inspiring players and fans globally. The Strategy Team drives EA's long-term strategic direction, helping leadership navigate the 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 role 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.

**Priority Initiatives**

- Own and drive high-priority strategic initiatives end-to-end, operating as a hands-on individual contributor on complex 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 narratives and decision frameworks for senior leadership.

- Mobilize and coordinate Strategy, Finance, Corporate Development, and business unit stakeholders to deliver integrated outputs.

- Represent the Strategy Team across enterprise planning processes and cross-functional forums.

- Partner with Communications to translate strategy into clear internal and external narratives.

**Requirements**

- 7+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, or a related field.

- Track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.

- Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

- Experience preparing executive-level materials and supporting senior leadership.

- Genuine operational instinct and ability to handle confidential matters.

- Collaborative, energizing presence.

- Passion for interactive entertainment, innovation, and building enduring franchises.

**Benefits** Electronic Arts offers comprehensive programs focused on physical, emotional, financial, professional, and social well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- team management
- communication
- analytical skills
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- management consulting
- corporate strategy
- investment banking
- media
- technology
- gaming
- entertainment

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