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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.
Location: Orlando, FL
Work Model: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)
The Data & Insights (D&I) team harnesses the power of data to deliver transformative insights and solutions to EA game teams and players. D&I teams are involved in every aspect of data, driving strategy and governance; building powerful data and AI applications; and developing personalization, experimentation, and analytics tools, and more. When you join D&I, you're joining a team of passionate experts working to enable more profound understanding, better ways of working, and more meaningful experiences for our players.
The Role
EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling video game franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. As an Analytics Director, you will shape analytics strategy and execution for growth initiatives within EA SPORTS. You will be a senior individual contributor, executing analyses and experimentation while also influencing senior stakeholders in product management and game development. You will report to the VP of Analytics, EA SPORTS and be a key partner to franchise leadership.
What You'll Do
Lead analytics vision and execution for growth initiatives to support player experience, product development, and business goals
Serve as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders across Product and Game Development, bringing data-driven insight to critical decisions
Build and scale game data infrastructure to support a new title, with a focus on telemetry, personalization-oriented data, and other critical analytics pipelines.
Design, implement, and optimize systems that capture rich player and game data, support experimentation, and enable deeper insights into user behavior inpartnership with engineering, analytics, and product teams
Execute analyses using SQL, experimentation, and statistical modeling to uncover opportunities and inform live service decisions
Conceive of and lead machine learning initiatives that personalize the player experience, such as dynamic content recommendation, and integrate these solutions into A/B testing strategies
Evaluate and champion practical applications of generative AI and automation tools to increase productivity and elevate insight generation
Build strong connections between analytics and central data teams, ensuring best practices and tools are leveraged for impact
What You'll Bring
10 years of experience in analytics, data science, or a related field
4 years of experience providing mentorship, or influencing teams (formal people management not required)
Experience working on live service games or similar digital products
Proficiency in SQL and experience with Python or R for statistical analysis
Experience designing and analyzing A/B tests or other experiments
Familiarity with using GenAI tools to support analytics tasks
Interest in games and using data to improve player experiences
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 adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and 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.