Director, Business Development

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Director, Business Development Electronic Arts Vancouver Role Summary Reporting to the VP, Business Development, the Director, Business Development serves as the EA SPORTS business development lead for strategic initiatives that extend our franchises beyond the core game experience. Working in close partnership with EA Ventures, the business owner of EA's Beyond Game strategy, this role identifies, evaluates, structures, and executes partnership opportunities that create new ways for fans to engage with EA SPORTS brands across digital media, emerging data and technologies, platforms, and connected experiences.

You will operate at the intersection of strategy and execution, translating enterprise-level Beyond Game priorities into commercially viable opportunities for EA SPORTS. The role collaborates closely with the broader EA SPORTS Business Development organization to leverage and evolve existing league, federation, club, athlete, and commercial partner relationships while identifying new ecosystem partners that accelerate innovation and long-term franchise growth.

Success in this role requires exceptional cross-functional leadership, business and commercial acumen, and the ability to align multiple internal and external stakeholders to deliver partnerships that support scalable, fan-centric experiences that complement EA's core gaming business. This is a hybrid role, with 3 days a week in our Vancouver office.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Partnership Development You will partner with EA Ventures to support EA's Beyond Game strategy within the EA SPORTS portfolio. You'll dentify strategic partnership opportunities that extend EA SPORTS franchises into new fan experiences, platforms, and business models. You will be responsible for executing partnerships that support commercial strategies and business cases for new initiatives that align with franchise, corporate, and partner objectives.

You'll evaluate emerging opportunities across sports media, creator ecosystems, AI, digital platforms, connected experiences, and other adjacent markets. You will manage partnerships from opportunity identification through execution, launch, and ongoing governance.

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees.

Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.