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VP, Advertising and Sponsorships

Electronic Arts
​🇺🇸Redwood City, CA, USA
​Full Time
​Senior (5+ years exp)
​$245,000 – $325,000 USD per year
​Business Development
​Sales
​Marketing
​5 days ago
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As Vice President of EA Advertising & Sponsorships, reporting to the SVP & Managing Director EA Experiences, you will define the enterprise-level advertising strategy 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. You will accelerate the growth, innovation and transformation of our advertising business through the following:

  • Define the holistic advertising strategy for us, incorporating EA’s world-class portfolio including our games, apps, websites, esports activations, events, experiences, technologies and more.

  • Build and manage a team that delivers material growth in advertising and sponsorships revenue over the next 3+ years

  • Develop advertising monetization strategies that deliver growth and have a positive consumer experience

  • Advance and mature capabilities around advertising tech, analytics, sales, operations and product management/game integration to support scale and accelerated growth

Responsibilities:

Expert Leadership

  • Shape company transformation through advertising innovation

  • Pioneer within interactive entertainment to define and accelerate advertising opportunities

  • Lead Advertising & Sponsorships team inclusive of capabilities across: 1) Advertising Technology, 2) Advertising Data & Analytics, 3) Advertising & Sponsorships Sales, 4) Advertising & Sponsorships Operations, and 5) Advertising & Sponsorships Product Management

Advertising & Sponsorships Strategy

  • Evaluate and refine the 3-year advertising & sponsorships strategy across the totality of EA’s experiences

  • Develop plans to maximize advertising revenue, while ensuring a positive consumer experience

  • Set and achieve annual revenue targets and OKRs

  • Manage team goals, budgets, and return on investment considerations

Technology, Data & Analytics

  • Refine the 3-year roadmap for advertising tech solutions

  • Collaborate with central tech partners on growth plans

  • Promote the development of IAB-supported advertising and analytics solutions across the portfolio

  • Establish the long-term data and analytics processes and roadmap

Sales & Operations

  • Establish strategy and best practices for outsourcing sales support in addition to internal direct sales team

  • Ensure seamless partnerships with Legal, Finance, and other support departments

  • Product Management

  • Deliver the long-range planning framework for implementation of advertising capabilities into the totality of EA's experiences

Your Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience leading multi-functional advertising teams

  • Experience managing digital advertising businesses within social networks, ecommerce or interactive entertainment

  • Established new advertising business - from strategy through to successful implementation; built new advertising teams

  • Scaled advertising businesses

  • Experience managing advertising technology teams, with demonstrated expertise in managing senior technical resources

US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

  • California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento): º $245,000 - $325,000 USD Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also 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.