Director, People Experience Business Partner (HRBP)

Requisition Number: 162271

Position Title: Director, HR Business Partnership

External Description:

Director, People Experience Business Partner (HRBP)

Client: Strategic Growth Initiatives (SGI)

 

 

We are EA

And we make games – how cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is hard work. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

At EA, we thrive on outrageous thinking. It’s the fuel that inspires the best games in the world. We’re innovators and great storytellers. But it’s not just about amazing your peers – it’s about amazing yourself. Take risks. Collaborate with brilliant minds and dare to dream big. Together, we can change the way millions play every day.

The Challenge Ahead:  

Our Director, PEBP is accountable for the business partner relationship to drive the talent strategy, workforce plan and people experience roadmap working with senior management within the Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI) organization. This includes our Competitive Gaming Entertainment team which focuses on building EA’s esports business, as well as EAX organization that focuses on exploring new business models in the digital space, transforming the player experience, and connecting players with each other and with games they love through our subscription service business (Origin / EA Play).    

In this role, the individual will partner with, coach and advise EA executives in attracting, developing and retaining the talent needed to power our future.  This role is also expected to take leadership roles on EA-wide People Experience programs/projects to continuously improve the effectiveness of our function. 

What this role does at EA:

• Designs a comprehensive Talent Strategy with executive management to ensure successful execution of business objectives. Works in partnership with Centers of Excellence (COE’s) that comprise our Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Management, People Practices and Employee Relations teams in order to develop and facilitate strategic talent solutions from hiring through career progression.
•  Change Management & Org Design: Coaches executives and management on planning and communications related to change management initiatives and working through organizational design to drive role clarity at the individual and team level. Defines and drives/facilitates complex change initiatives for client group(s). Educates management and key stakeholders on best practices in change management. Orchestrates full circle review of change impact to ensure change acceptance. Communicates changes and potential impact to a wider group of constituents outside of the client group.
• Talent and Workforce Planning solutions: Leads effort to identify potential successors for critical roles and leadership positions. Drives initiatives in partnership with respective COE partners to attract, retain, and develop key talent. Establishes clarity about critical roles and develops strategies to address retention risks and skill gaps, ensuring depth of bench strength for key roles across client group. Involved in selection of internal and external talent. Provides direct coaching and mentoring of several key high potentials. 
• Culture and Employee Experience: Helps establish and foster an inclusive EA culture, consistently driving improvement in programs, diagnostics, and related training/coaching engagements, in order to develop EAs overall capability to foster a healthy, cohesive, collaborative, fun, fair and equitable workplace.  Works closely with the management team and PE team supporting these groups to ensure employees' clarity about EA’s business vision and helps to build a culture of passion for that greater mission.
• Performance, Recognition and Rewards: Creates insightful approaches to employee recognition and rewards; can assess market data to drive optimal compensation decisions, and is innovative 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), this includes being knowledgeable of business unit budgets and demonstrates ability to utilize funds effectively during annual cycle. Shows good judgment in knowing when to advocate out-of-guideline recommendations. Demonstrated ability with our compensation partner to develop recommendations on executive compensation.
• Organizational Effectiveness:  Identifies gaps hindering achievement of business outcomes and ensures business is focused on solving root cause issues. Drives increasingly complex initiatives to improve organization effectiveness. Works across COEs (as applicable) to develop recommended solutions. Coaches, trains and fosters management capability.
• Workforce Analytics and Technology:  Identifies key metrics to assess and diagnose the health of the organization. Educates management on headcount planning and related metrics (e.g. span-of-control) to support their business decisions. Applies knowledge of HR metrics and uses data from various tools (e.g. Team Health, Workday, etc.) appropriately to assess and influence / drive business decisions. Consults with management on workforce planning and headcount management for client group.

 

 

This role also needs to have:

• Minimum experience: Bachelor or Masters Degree in a relevant field plus 12 or more years of progressive success as a senior strategic PE business partner/manager.  Proven experience managing and implementing large scale PE programs and/or initiatives across a business unit.
• Demonstrated success developing high potential PEBP individuals/teams.
• Knowledge leader, with demonstrated mastery in organizational development/design, change leadership, and overall talent management. 
• A business leader, who is equally a builder of PE solutions based on PE best practices, as well as, an astute business member who employs solutions that affect the current and future performance of the business
• Excellent change management skills - comfortable with ambiguity and constant change, able to methodically work through complex problems, set priorities and execute on commitments.
• Can balance compassion and toughness in coaching others and leading organization - with peers, upwards and with COE partners.
• 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.
• Has a passion for creating healthy organizations, driving transformation and helping culture be a competitive advantage.

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Company Profile:

Nous sommes une équipe internationale de spécialistes de la création, de la narration, de la technologie, de la génération d’expériences, de l’innovation et bien plus encore. Nous pensons que nos équipes doivent être aussi diversifiées que nos communautés afin de créer des jeux et des expériences inoubliables. Chez Electronic Arts, la seule limite est votre imagination.

EEOText: EA est un employeur qui offre l'égalité d'accès à l'emploi. Toutes les décisions d'emploi sont prises sans prendre en considération les critères de race, couleur de la peau, origine ethnique, descendance, sexe, genre, identité ou expressions de genre, orientation sexuelle, âge, de nature génétique, religion, invalidité, état de santé, grossesse, situation matrimoniale, situation familiale, état d'ancien combattant, ou encore toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi. Nous tiendrons aussi compte des candidats qualifiés à l'emploi possédant un casier judiciaire, en vertu de la loi en vigueur. EA veille aussi à procéder à des aménagements spéciaux en milieu de travail pour les candidats qualifiés et présentant une invalidité, tel que requis par la loi en vigueur.

Days Open: 74

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À propos d'Electronic Arts

Toutes nos actions sont tendues vers le même objectif : transmettre l'envie de jouer. Au travers de nos jeux innovants, de nos services novateurs et de nos technologies de pointe, nous offrons des possibilités infinies à des millions de fans dans le monde entier.

 

Nous cherchons des personnes inclusives et collaboratives aux points de vue variés pour enrichir notre culture et nous stimuler. Grâce à notre programme d’avantages sociaux, nous adoptons une approche holistique centrée sur le bien-être physique, émotionnel, financier, professionnel et communautaire pour soutenir les membres de notre personnel à chaque chapitre de leur vie. Nous fournissons un ensemble complet d’avantages sociaux garantissant une vie équilibrée et offrant notamment des congés payés, des congés parentaux, des jeux gratuits et bien plus encore. Notre objectif est de fournir un environnement de travail sûr et bienveillant qui vous permet de vous épanouir sur le plan personnel comme sur le plan professionnel.

 

Electronic Arts souscrit au principe de l’égalité des chances. Nous prenons nos décisions en matière d’emploi sans distinction de race, de couleur, de pays d’origine, d’hérédité, de sexe, de genre, d’identité ou d’expression de genre, d’orientation sexuelle, d’âge, d’informations génétiques, de religion, de handicap, d’état de santé, de grossesse, de situation familiale, d’ancienneté ou de tout autre facteur protégé par la loi. Nous étudions également les candidatures des personnes qualifiées possédant un casier judiciaire, conformément à la loi en vigueur. Par ailleurs, EA aménage l’environnement de travail pour les personnes en situation de handicap, conformément à la loi en vigueur.