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Director, PE Business Partner - Mobile

Electronic Arts

Los Angeles – Del Rey, Vancouver, Redwood City, Orlando

About Mobile

Welcome to EA Mobile, home to developers working on iconic franchises such as Plants vs. Zombies, Design Home, Star Wars, Sim City, Golf Clash, Pogo, and more. At EA Mobile, we value creativity, continuous learning, data-driven decision-making, and strong product knowledge. We are looking for passionate individuals who thrive in a growth-oriented environment and are committed to collaborating in dynamic teams to deliver compelling experiences to millions of players worldwide.

People Experience

Most companies call it HR. But at Electronic Arts, we made the deliberate decision to brand our organization People Experience or PE. PE is not just a play on words: it's a team of cultural stewards who carefully create programs and talent strategies that directly impact our teams' experience. For the better. We enable our People to achieve the most meaningful work of their careers. We're responsible for recruiting the best and most diverse talent on the planet. But it doesn't stop there. We also support their growth through learning programs, internal mobility, affinity group participation, and leadership development. We listen to our employees and dive into analytics to anchor our recommendations and decisions to keep engagement high. Last but not least, we're responsible for a total rewards strategy that incentivizes equitably, provides outstanding benefits, and ensures a safe and inspiring workplace for our teams.

The Challenge Ahead:

The Director, People Experience Business Partner for EA Mobile reports to the Senior Director, Lifestyle/Mobile, and drives talent strategy and the People Experience roadmap in partnership with Mobile's senior leadership team. The Director, PE Business Partner serves as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, bringing commercial insight, organizational expertise, and sound judgment to complex business and talent decisions. This role requires the ability to navigate a dynamic, matrixed environment, influence across functions, and translate business priorities into actionable People strategies that strengthen organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, and long-term business performance.

You will take leadership roles on EA-wide People Experience programs and related project teams. This is a hybrid remote/in-office role requiring at least three days per week.

What the PE Business Partner does at EA:

Designs a comprehensive talent strategy with executives to ensure successful execution of goals, aligned with Company Talent strategy.
You will partner with HR Centers of Excellence (COE's) that comprise our Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Development and Organizational Effectiveness teams to develop and facilitate strategic talent solutions from hiring through career progression.
Change Management: Coaches executives and leaders to plan for change management, optimizing for the employee experience, and working through organizational design to create role clarity at the individual and team level.
You implement complex change programs for client group(s). Educate management and key stakeholders on best practices in change management. Orchestrate full circle review of change impact to ensure change acceptance.
Talent and Workforce Planning solutions: You lead efforts to identify potential successors for important roles and leadership positions. Promote attraction, retention, and development of talent.
Culture and Employee Experience: Help establish and foster EA culture, improving programs, diagnostics, and related training/coaching engagements, to develop EAs overall capability to foster a healthy, cohesive, collaborative, fun and equitable workplace. Is accountable for all ER-related issues in assigned client group(s). Work with managers, employees and appropriate others to respond to all employee relations issues in ways that foster a cohesive and enjoyable workplace.
You help create insightful approaches to employee recognition and rewards; can assess market data to guide compensation decisions, and are creative about ways outside of compensation to provide meaningful reward and recognition. Is accountable for the successful implementation of the life cycle of the performance and compensation process across all assigned client group(s). Understand concepts of unvested equity and vesting timelines as it relates to compensation.
Organizational Effectiveness: Identifies gaps hindering achievement of outcomes and ensures business is focused on solving root cause issues. You work across COEs (as applicable) to develop recommended solutions. Coach, train and fosters management capability
Workforce Analytics and Technology: Identifies important metrics to assess and diagnose the health of the organization. You apply knowledge of HR metrics and uses data from several tools (e.g. Workday, etc.) to assess and influence decisions.

The next great People Experience, BP at EA also needs to have:

Minimum experience: Bachelor or Masters Degree in a relevant field plus 10 or more years of progressive success as a senior strategic HR business partner/manager.
Experience managing large-scale HR programs
Knowledge leader, with demonstrated mastery in organizational design, change leadership, and talent management.
Excellent change management skills - can create clarity and achieve commitments.
Can balance compassion and toughness in coaching others.
Good understanding of local employment law, coupled with the ability to gain a high level understanding of territorial employment customs and practices working with EA's worldwide HR team.
Passion for creating healthy organizations, driving transformation and helping culture be a competitive advantage.

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

* British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$160,700 - $224,700 CAD

* California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) *$182,600 - $276,300 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 your new child, 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 long-term cash programs.

In Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of paid sick time, company top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement benefits to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and long-term cash 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.

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Director, People Experience Business Partner - Mobile

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