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.