Director, PE Business Partner - Mobile

Electronic Arts • Los Angeles, CA

9d • $182,600 - $276,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

Electronic Arts is seeking a Director, People Experience Business Partner for EA Mobile. Reporting to the Senior Director, Lifestyle/Mobile, this role drives talent strategy and the People Experience roadmap in partnership with Mobile’s senior leadership team. The Director serves as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, bringing commercial insight, organizational expertise, and sound judgment to complex business and talent decisions. The position requires navigating a dynamic, matrixed environment, influencing across functions, and translating business priorities into actionable People strategies that strengthen organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, and long-term business performance.

The Director also takes 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.

Electronic Arts’ People Experience organization develops talent strategies and programs that shape employees’ experience, including recruiting, learning, internal mobility, affinity group participation, leadership development, engagement, and total rewards. EA Mobile supports developers working on franchises including Plants vs. Zombies, Design Home, Star Wars, Sim City, Golf Clash, and Pogo.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field.
• At least 10 years of progressive success as a senior strategic HR business partner or manager.
• Experience managing large-scale HR programs.
• Demonstrated mastery of organizational design, change leadership, and talent management.
• Excellent change-management skills, including the ability to create clarity and achieve commitments.
• Ability to balance compassion and toughness when coaching others.
• Good understanding of local employment law and ability to develop a strong understanding of territorial employment customs and practices in collaboration with EA’s worldwide HR team.
• Passion for creating healthy organizations, driving transformation, and helping culture become a competitive advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design a comprehensive talent strategy with executives to support successful execution of goals and align with the company talent strategy.
• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence, including Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Development, and Organizational Effectiveness, to develop and facilitate talent solutions from hiring through career progression.
• Coach executives and leaders on change management, employee experience, and organizational design to create role clarity at individual and team levels.
• Implement complex change programs for assigned client groups, educate management and stakeholders on change-management practices, and review change impacts to support acceptance.
• Lead talent and workforce planning efforts, identify potential successors for important roles and leadership positions, and promote talent attraction, retention, and development.
• Help foster EA culture and improve programs, diagnostics, and training or coaching engagements to support a healthy, cohesive, collaborative, fun, and equitable workplace.
• Take accountability for employee-relations issues in assigned client groups and work with managers, employees, and others to address them.
• Develop approaches to employee recognition and rewards, assess market data to inform compensation decisions, and identify meaningful non-compensation rewards.
• Oversee the performance and compensation process lifecycle across assigned client groups, including understanding unvested equity and vesting timelines as they relate to compensation.
• Identify organizational-effectiveness gaps, focus the business on root causes, and work across Centers of Excellence to develop recommended solutions.
• Coach, train, and build management capability.
• Identify metrics to assess organizational health and use HR metrics and tools such as Workday to assess and influence decisions.

Benefits

• Paid time off: three weeks per year to start in the US; three weeks of vacation per year to start in Canada.
• Sick time: 80 hours per year in the US; 10 days per year in Canada.
• Paid company holidays: 16 per year in the US.
• Paid bonding time: 10 weeks in the US; in Canada, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary for 12 weeks of maternity leave and four weeks of parental or adoption leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance in the US; extended health, dental, and vision coverage in Canada.
• Life insurance and disability insurance.
• 401(k) for regular full-time US employees; retirement plan for regular full-time Canadian employees.
• Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
• Benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and other locally tailored offerings.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director