Senior Manager, Strategy -- Chief of Staff & Strategic Initiatives

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The Strategy Team drives EA's long-term strategic direction, helping leadership navigate a rapidly evolving entertainment and technology landscape. We 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 is a rare role that combines genuine operating partnership with a senior leader and hands-on strategic work at the center of EA's most consequential questions.

This role operates at the center of EA's most important strategic questions, helping leadership understand what is changing in the world, what it means for EA, and how the company should respond, while also ensuring the Strategy Team is aligned, coordinated, and operating effectively at the executive level.

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. Set agendas, prepare materials, and drive follow-through.

• 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, ensuring materials are cohesive, strategically grounded, and decision-oriented.

Priority Initiatives

• Own and drive high-priority strategic initiatives end-to-end, operating as a hands-on individual contributor on complex, sensitive 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, compelling narratives and decision frameworks for senior leadership, enabling informed decision-making in fast-moving contexts.

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

• Represent the Strategy Team across enterprise planning processes and cross-functional forums, partnering closely with Finance and other corporate teams on portfolio-level trade-offs and long-range planning.

• Partner with Communications to translate strategy into clear internal and external narratives, and support executive communications and speaking engagements.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, corporate development, or a related field. Experience in media, technology, gaming, or entertainment is a plus.

• Track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from framing through to outcome in dynamic environments.

• Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills, including financial modeling, scenario planning, and market analysis.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear, decision-oriented narratives.

• Experience preparing executive-level materials and supporting senior leadership in high-visibility settings.

• Genuine operational instinct. You bring structure and momentum to ambiguous work, and you are energized by building the processes and rhythms that make a team effective.

• High judgment, discretion, and maturity. This role sits close to sensitive discussions and requires the ability to handle confidential matters with care.

• A collaborative, energizing presence. You naturally convene people, ask good questions, and build relationships across an organization.

• Passion for interactive entertainment, innovation, and building enduring franchises that resonate with players and fans worldwide.

Pay Transparency - North America

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) *$153,700 - $233,600 USD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.