Director, People Experience Business Partner

Job Description

Director, People Experience Business Partner (Central Tech Organization)

Director, People Experience Business Partner (HRBP)

We Are People Experience

Most companies call it HR. At Electronic Arts we made the deliberate decision to brand our organization People Experience (PE). It is not just a play on words, PE is a team of cultural stewards who carefully create programs and talent strategies that directly impacts our teams' experience and enables our People to achieve the most meaningful work of their careers.

We're responsible for recruiting the best diverse talent on the planet and supporting their growth through learning programs, internal mobility, affinity group participation, and leadership development. We listen to our employees and dive into analytics to anchor our recommendations and decisions to keep engagement high. Last but not least, we're responsible for a total rewards strategy that incentivizes equitably, provides outstanding benefits, and ensures a safe and inspiring workplace for our teams.

The Challenge Ahead:

You will report to the VP of People Experience and oversee the business partner relationship to drive a global talent strategy and a HR roadmap working with senior management and executives within EA's technology organization. The Director, PEBP partners with, coaches and advises our SVP, EA Digital Platform (EADP) and our VP, Strategic Planning and Engagement as well as Sr. Leaders in their organizations to build their leadership capability to support the strategy, developing our talent and achieving outcomes. You will take leadership roles on EA-wide HR programs and related project teams.

This role will have a large global scope working with leaders and teams in our US locations as well as Vancouver, Israel, and Hyderabad. The role requires extensive experience working across cultures and designing a strategic resource plan on a global scale.

You will report to the VP, PE Business Partnership.

What you will do at EA:
• Talent Strategy: You will design a comprehensive talent strategy with business leaders to ensure successful execution of our goals. Work in partnership with People Practices teams providing geographic, daily HR support of the business, and the Centers of Excellence (COE's) that comprise our Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Management and PE Business Solutions teams to develop strategic talent solutions from hiring through career progression.
• Coach Executives and Leadership teams: You will build trusted relationships with the business leaders you partner. You will coach the leaders and leadership teams you work with to improve overall effectiveness and achieve their goals.
• Change Management: You will coach leaders on planning and communications related to change management programs, and working through organizational design to promote role clarity at the individual and team level. Determine and guide/organize complex change plans for client group(s). Educates management and important partners on best practices in change management. Orchestrate full circle review of change impact to ensure change acceptance. Communicate changes and potential impact to wider group of members outside of client group.
• Talent and Workforce Planning solutions: You will lead efforts to identify potential successors for important roles and leadership positions. Drive plans and work with COE partners across the employee lifecycle. Establish clarity about important roles and develop strategies to address retention risks and skill gaps, ensuring depth of bench strength for important roles across client group. Involved in selection of our talent. Provide direct mentoring of several high potentials.
• Culture and Employee Experience: You will help establish and foster EA culture, improving programs, diagnostics, and related training engagements, to develop EAs overall capability to foster a healthy, cohesive, collaborative, fun and fair workplace. Oversee all ER-related issues in assigned client group(s). Work with the People Relations team, managers, employees and appropriate others to respond to all employee relations issues in ways that foster a cohesive and enjoyable workplace. Work with the management team and HR team that support these groups to ensure employees' clarity about our vision and helps to build a culture of passion for that greater mission.
• Performance and Rewards: You will create insightful approaches to employee rewards; assess market data to guide compensation decisions, and be creative about ways outside of compensation to provide meaningful reward and recognition. You will oversee the successful implementation of the life cycle of the performance and compensation process across all assigned client group(s), this includes being knowledgeable of team budgets and able to use funds during annual cycle. Navigate when to advocate out-of-guideline recommendations. Demonstrated ability, with compensation partner, to develop recommendations on executive compensation. Understand concepts of unvested equity and vesting timelines as it relates to compensation.
• Organizational Effectiveness: You will identify gaps hindering achievement of outcomes and ensure business is focused on solving issues. Guide complex plans to improve organization effectiveness. Work across Centers of Excellence (as applicable) to develop recommended solutions. Coach, train and foster management capability.
• Workforce Analytics and Technology: You will identify important metrics to assess and diagnose the health of the organization. Educate management on headcount planning and related metrics (e.g. span-of-control). Apply knowledge of HR metrics and use data from multiple tools (e.g. Team Health, Workday) to assess and influence / guide our decisions. Consult with management on workforce planning and headcount management for client group.
• You will guide important EA-wide People programs within your assigned client group(s) in partnership with the worldwide People Experience team and the Centers of Excellence (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Employee Relations, HR Operations, and Learning, Engagement & Performance)

Experience Requirements:
• You have a Bachelor or Masters Degree in a relevant field plus 10-12 or more years of progressive success as a senior strategic HR Business Partner. You have overseen large-scale HR programs.
• Knowledge leader, with demonstrated mastery in organizational development, change leadership, and overall talent management.
• A business leader, who is equally a builder of PE solutions based on PE best practices, as well as, an astute business member who employs solutions that affect business performances
• Excellent change management skills - able to methodically work through complex problems, set priorities and build commitments.
• Experience developing HRBP individuals/teams.
• Knowledge leader, with demonstrated mastery in organizational development, change leadership, and overall talent management.
• Can balance compassion and toughness in coaching others.
• Experience navigating across the HR organization - with peers, upwards, and with center of expertise partners.
• Experience with local employment law, coupled with the ability to gain a high level understanding of territorial employment customs and practices working with EA's worldwide HR team.
• Have a passion for creating healthy organizations, driving transformation and helping culture be a competitive advantage.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmv602-18-119-160-154-42 in your application.