Director, PE Business Partner

Locations : Redwood City, California, United States of America

Role ID : 207451

Worker Type : Regular Employee

Studio/Department : People Experience & Workplaces

Flexible Work Arrangement : Hybrid

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.

Director, PE Business Partner - Corporate Functions

Most companies call it HR. But at Electronic Arts, we made the deliberate decision to brand our organization People Experience (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. This is a hybrid role and you'll work in our Redwood City office 3 days a week.

The Challenge Ahead:

Our Corporate Functions Business Partner drives talent strategy, and the Corporate Functions roadmap working with Executives within Global Affairs, Corporate Strategy and Global Finance. The Director, Business Partner coaches, advises and partners with Sr. Leaders to build their leadership capability, enable business strategy, develop talent and achieve talent outcomes. You will take leadership roles on EA-wide People Experience programs and related project teams in support of these groups. You will report to the Senior Director, BP- Corporate Functions and together will partner across these functions to support our senior leaders and executives.

What the Corporate Functions BP does at EA:

• Designs a comprehensive talent strategy with executives to ensure successful execution of goals, aligned with Company Talent strategy.
• Partners 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.
• Fosters consistent practices, processes and knowledge sharing across Corporate Functions for cyclical or surge activities maintaining best practice, timeliness and efficiency.
• 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.
• Implements complex change programs 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.
• Leads efforts to identify potential successors for important roles and leadership positions. Promotes attraction, retention, and development of talent.
• Helps 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).
• Creates insightful approaches to employee recognition and rewards; assesses market data to guide compensation decisions, and is 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).
• Identifies gaps hindering achievement of outcomes and ensures business is focused on solving root cause issues. Works across COEs (as applicable) to develop recommended solutions.
• Identifies important metrics to assess and diagnose the health of the organization. Applies knowledge of HR metrics and uses data from several tools (e.g. Workday, etc.) to assess and influence decisions.

The next great Corporate Functions BP at EA also needs to have:

• Minimum experience: Bachelor or Master’s Degree in a relevant field plus 10 or more years of progressive success as a senior strategic HR business partner/manager.
• Experience working with and engaging Practices teams (or similar) to enable managers within these functions to self-serve, and support their teams with tactical on the ground advice and knowledge.
• 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.
• Experience with 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.
• Creating healthy organizations, driving transformation and helping culture be a competitive advantage.

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

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 equity.

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 take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much 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.