Sr. Data Analyst, Business Strategy - Market Intelligence
Description
EA - ENTERTAINING IS OUR PASSION
You’re probably familiar with many of our titles - Madden, FIFA, The Sims, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few. But maybe you don’t know how we’re committed to creating games for every platform - from social to mobile to console - to give our consumers that anytime, anywhere access they demand. What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your creative genius, be inspired by those around you and ignite your path in any direction you choose.
As a corporate strategy specialist in market intelligence, you will help shape EA’s strategic direction by providing the executive leadership team with data-driven market and competitive insights.
CORPORATE STRATEGY
The corporate strategy team works with senior leadership across EA to define strategy and facilitate strategic decision-making. The strategic intelligence team supports that mission via competitive tracking and analysis, as well as maintenance of data and systems to support these.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Conducts market research, financial analysis, and structured strategic assessments to inform corporate and franchise-level strategic planning. Utilizes corporate strategy frameworks, market and competitive intelligence, and financial modeling to inform portfolio evaluation and growth decisions within the interactive entertainment industry. Responsible for defined analytical workstreams and structured strategy deliverables contributing to broader franchise or enterprise initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Conducts market, competitive, and ecosystem research across gaming, media, and technology sectors.
- Builds financial and scenario models to evaluate growth opportunities and strategic trade-offs.
- Synthesizes qualitative and quantitative inputs into structured analyses and presentation materials.
- Supports evaluation of new IP, franchise extensions, partnerships, and business models.
- Prepares structured briefs, presentations, and analytical summaries for leadership review.
- Collaborates with Finance and Strategic Intelligence to validate assumptions and data inputs.
- Contributes analytical inputs to long-range planning and portfolio assessment processes.
Attitude/Knowledge required
- Solution oriented, creative problem solver
- A team player able to work collaboratively within the group and across business units/functions
- High Intellectual curiosity
- Eager to dig into data and willing to do the work required to compile and test the data
- Flexible and adaptable while maintaining positive attitude
- Self-starter with passion, energy, enthusiasm to drive results and changes
Skills required
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Strong analytical and programming skills
- Experience in gathering insights from disparate sources and combining them into compelling business cases and strategic goals
- Intellectually curious, willing to dig into questions to create next level understanding of the situation
- Willing to learn and master additional coding languages (SQL, Python or R)