# 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 **Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/fi_FI/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Manager-Strategy-Chief-of-Staff-Strategic-Initiatives/212954?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d478adca-662 ## Description Electronic Arts creates next-generation entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story, a community that connects people everywhere. It's a place where creativity thrives, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and ideas matter. The team works together to make gaming possible. The Strategy Team drives EA's long-term strategic direction, helping leadership navigate a rapidly evolving entertainment and technology landscape. They turn bold ideas into tangible strategies, identify emerging opportunities, and develop the next generation of strategic leaders. 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, corporate development, or a related field. - Track record of leading complex initiatives from framing through to outcome in dynamic environments. - Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills, including financial modeling and market analysis. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. - Experience preparing executive-level materials and supporting senior leadership in high-visibility settings. - Genuine operational instinct and ability to handle confidential matters with care. - Collaborative and energizing presence. - Passion for interactive entertainment, innovation, and building enduring franchises. ## Skills ### Required - strategic planning - leadership - communication - financial modeling - market analysis ### Nice to have - management consulting - corporate strategy - investment banking - corporate development - gaming - entertainment --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ea.com](https://jobs.ea.com/fi_FI/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Manager-Strategy-Chief-of-Staff-Strategic-Initiatives/212954?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)