Senior Director, EAV Sports Analytics

Requisition Number: 178411

Position Title: Senior Director, Analytics

External Description:

As the Senior Director of Sports Analytics, you will lead our Analytics function at EA's Vancouver studio. You will influence important decisions on EA SPORTS FC, and other sports portfolio franchises including NHL and UFC. Reporting to the Vice President of Sports & Racing Analytics, you will partner with senior studio and marketing leaders to provide insights to guide the best player experiences. You will set the vision, strategy, and action plan for the team, applying your background in analytics, potentially in the gaming, entertainment, or consumer products industry, where consumer acquisition, engagement, and monetization are important considerations. 

• Responsibilities:

  • Set an analytics strategy, and mobilize the team and resources to implement your vision.

  • Lead the ongoing delivery of actionable, data-driven insights for our Sports franchises to improve player engagement and optimize game economy to support live services.

  • Identify data products, tools and player insights that help develop game products and features to grow and optimize the franchises.

  • Work with studio and marketing leadership teams, build trust and ensure collaboration between departments and across EA, removing barriers to accomplish goals.

  • Work with product, engineering, and experimentation teams in creating frictionless customer experiences.

  • Partner with engineering teams to ensure our data warehousing and infrastructure can support growing player and developer needs.

  • Lead, develop and attract a team of accomplished analysts.

  • Demonstrate a commitment to equity and inclusion through both words and actions, building an inclusive culture for the team and ensuring everyone can contribute and feel welcomed and valued.

  Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree, with a preferred Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Business, Behavioral Psychology, or related discipline.

  • 10+ years working in data and analytics, with at least 7+ managing a motivated data analytics or data science team.

  • 7+ years of experience in experimentation or live services.

  • You are experienced in understanding problems and constraints, translating them into analysis approaches and insights, and following through on recommendations/outcomes.

  • You are experienced in cutting through complexity to find the core problem and achieve the best solution.

  • Experience presenting to large groups, including executive management.

  • Excellent management skills to build analysis delivery plans with clear deliverables, ownership, and communication plans.

  • Knowledge of quantitative techniques such as regression, classification, forecasting, and clustering.

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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.

Days Open: 33

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. 

 

We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. 

 

Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.

 

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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.