Senior Research Strategist

Requisition Number: 169932

Position Title: Sr Researcher

External Description:

Senior Research Strategist

You will conduct future-oriented research on a variety of topics that intersect player experience, new technologies, cultural trends, and EA's business strategies. You will report to EA's central User Experience Research team, and you will collaborate across a diverse set of partners including UX researchers, game developers, and strategic leaders in different functions. You will represent the users--in all their variety and diversity of background and opinion--and we value reflecting that diversity in the structure of our team.

Responsibilities

• Perform mixed methods research to answer formative questions about player needs, new technologies, and cultural trends
• Provide insights that improve our creative and business strategies
• Develop your relationships across several product groups and central teams to understand our needs and current strategies
• Proactively identify broad or ill-defined opportunities and create impactful research questions
• Align partners on your research roadmaps and study plans
• Create and communicate clear, insightful narratives that influence the way business and creative leaders at EA think about players and the future of play
• Amplify the success of product-focused research peers by consulting on challenging research problems and conducting research projects that diverge from the product's needs

Qualifications:

• You have an advanced degree in psychology (experimental, social, cognitive), human computer interaction, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
• You have 5+ years' industry experience in research design and conducting user research studies in both in-person and remote settings
• You have experience networking and leading research projects in a large, multi-faceted product development organization, and you have demonstrated impact on strategy in that environment
• You have expertise in research design with experience applying multiple methods (e.g. field studies, interviews, surveys)
• You can develop creative approaches for novel or challenging research problems, and you can align partners on the validity of those approaches
• You can present to business leaders and senior individuals, and domain experts, and you can facilitate follow-up actions that help partner teams internalize or apply those insights

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter interaktiver Unterhaltungssoftware. EA bietet Spiele, Inhalte und Online-Dienste für internetfähige Spielkonsolen, Personalcomputer, Mobiltelefone und Tablets an.

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Days Open: 144

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA engagiert sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung. Alle Personalentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Ethnie, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, Abstammung, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsidentität oder ausgelebtem Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, genetischer Information, Religion, Behinderung, Krankheit, Schwangerschaft, Familienstand oder Veteranenstatus getroffen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.