Electronic Arts

Experiences Organization: Our EA Experiences organization (XO) is dedicated to ensuring great experiences for our growing communities centered around our world-renowned brands, including fan-favorites like Apex, Battlefield, EA SPORTS FC, Madden NFL and The Sims, just to name a few. We're a multi-functional group, with world-class expertise building fandoms, driving interactive storytelling, and positioning our franchises at the center of the broader entertainment ecosystem. We inspire, connect, and engage fans through culturally relevant content, intentionally architected journeys across channels, and meaningful fan care. Our goal is to provide valuable, easy experiences that fans love – in our games, around our games, and through adjacent experiences to grow and enrich how fans experience EA as we shape the future of entertainment.

To empower more players and fans in new and amazing ways, we need more innovators to join our world-class team. The future of entertainment is interactive, and you can help lead that future, by growing and enriching how hundreds of millions of people (and counting) find joy and belonging, forge friendships, and celebrate their lived experiences through the work we do every day, together.

Office of the CXO:

The Office of the CXO drives effectiveness across the EA Experiences organization with a focus on excellence in business operations, comprehensive fan intelligence, plus internal technology and revenue-generating business solutions. We are horizontal connectors empowering teams across the Experiences organization with the strategic prioritization, investments, resources, data, insights and technology required to accelerate results in service of our goals.

Director of Sales, EA Advertising & Sponsorships

As Director of Sales, EA Advertising & Sponsorships, you will lead and deliver 8 figure global revenue forecasts across our AAA games portfolio. You will partner with every aspect of this fast-growing business working with studio leadership, brand leadership, legal, finance, and the A&S LT. This important role requires a compelling mix of sales experience and relationship building alongside creative and analytical skills. As Director of Sales, you will define the enterprise level advertising strategy for their respective verticals across EA's portfolio of products. You will pioneer in this growing revenue stream, maximizing value across EA's experiences and consumer touch points through B2B advertising and sponsorship activations. You will be the top-down, long-term strategic visionary and bottoms-up execution-focused growth operator.

Reporting to the VP EA Advertising & Sponsorships, you and your team will contribute to the go-to-market strategy and delivery of our revenue targets, and managing important executive level relationships with brands and their agencies. You will accelerate the growth, innovation and transformation of our advertising business by:

• Oversee sales markets and build senior level commercial relationships in service of delivering EA's advertising revenues Year-over-year

• Participate in the monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting process in collaboration with Finance, Revenue Strategy and Product teams

• Build a pipeline of opportunities across the EA portfolio using brand relationships and agency oversight

• Oversee inventory and package pricing over product and service life cycle to maximize revenue whilst maintaining long-term customer value perception for our brands

• Lead change and process improvement when new opportunities arise in this evolving industry space

Your Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience leading enterprise advertising sales teams

• Experience establishing and growing new business from inventory development, packaging, and execution

• Experience managing enterprise client relationships

• Experience collaborating with advertising technology teams

• Comfortable managing and working with distributed/remote teams

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco)
  • $178,200 - $269,500 USD

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.