Senior Digital Merchandiser - Franchise Lifecycle Planning
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As part of the Global Partners team, you will drive merchandising strategy and lifecycle planning across EA’s global digital and first-party ecosystem (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Steam, Epic). You will influence storefront, web, and social touchpoints to optimize player journeys, acquisition, engagement, and monetization across key EA franchises.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and proactively own comprehensive franchise merchandising plans across partner channels and commercial programs to maximize product reach, visibility, and relevance throughout the lifecycle (E.g., Announce, pre-order, launch, and live service).
- Work with internal partners globally, such as brand, production, commercial, operations, design, and analytics to align on planning requirements, ensure launch readiness, and scale execution.
- Work with external partners to optimize franchise campaign amplification and discovery on their platform.
- Identify opportunities for experimentation, benchmarking, and data-driven testing along with new strategies that enhance the ecosystem player journey, drive value and engagement, and maximize revenue performance.
- Deliver weekly and monthly executive updates, forecast variance analyses, risk management assessments, campaign results, postmortem reviews, and upcoming activation plans to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Provide guidance to account managers, trade marketing and paid media teams on channel optimization.
- Govern partner merchandising asset strategies to ensure cross-platform consistency, brand integrity, and end-to-end ecosystem alignment across key commercial moments.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in eCommerce, merchandising or marketing roles within the gaming and digital entertainment industry.
- Proven experience in designing, benchmarking, and optimizing end-to-end digital consumer journeys and ecosystem experiences.
- Strong narrative storytelling skills, with a proven ability to translate complex merchandising strategies, performance metrics, and insights for senior leadership.
- Proactive ownership to multitask independently across multiple franchises with strong project management, risk management, and leadership skills.
- Deep knowledge of digital storefront operations and the global gaming landscape.
- Experience collaborating effectively with global cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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