A letter from Gabrielle Toledano, Executive Vice-President, Human Resources
Welcome to EA’s world
Our goal is to make the world’s greatest interactive entertainment. We recognize that what makes us the market leader is our great people. This fuels our desire to make EA a great place to work and to ensure all have equal access to the best career development.
My team works with the business to ensure that your time working for EA is both rewarding and fun. Top of our agenda is ensuring that we continue focusing on the key areas that make such a difference to working lives, including:
| Career Development: | Job enrichment comes when people are motivated by their work and have clear career paths that they can follow, tied to their performance. We have mapped out most job family disciplines at EA and have detailed the level of responsibilities and capabilities for the roles in order to provide this information to employees seeking new work opportunities and advancement. |
| Good Managers: | Being managed by a great manager makes an enormous difference to an employee’s work experience. This is why EA invests in ensuring managers understand how to develop staff and practice effective people management. |
| Culture of Communication: | Clear, transparent communication is critical. This includes communicating goals and expectations, offering regular performance feedback, and praising good efforts and results. Communication has to be two way. |
| Diversity: | It is critical that our workforce reflect our customers — those who play our games. We are committed to continually attracting women and people from diverse backgrounds into EA. Different thinking and experiences helps us all think more openly and get to more creative and global outcomes. |
| Work/Life Balance: | We all have relationships outside of work and recognize the challenge of work/life balance. Specifically at EA, we have invested considerable time ensuring that the pre-production planning occurs, resulting in more predictable game development timelines. We continue to do this better and better every day. |
| Rewarding Results: | Ensuring employees have a motivating compensation and rewards package aligned to performance and results is critical. This alignment of rewards with performance and results creates a high performing culture of success. We have tried to tie our compensation and other employee recognition programs to the outcomes that drive personal and company success. The highest performers should get the greatest rewards. |
| Hire Right: | Hiring the best talent and providing a work environment where they can do their best work generates a winning culture and a winning company. We will always focus on the values that are important to EA and ensure we hire the best. One thing that employees always say about EA is that they are working along side great, talented people every day. This is one of the biggest drivers of employee satisfaction. |
At the top of my agenda is working with business leaders across EA to ensure that we not only remain a great place to work but get even better. We recognize at EA that success comes from continually improving and pushing the boundaries, at times making mistakes but always learning how to be better.
Entertaining is our passion. If you want to help us make the best interactive entertainment in the world and enjoy an enriching career experience, apply today.
Hope to see you soon.
Gabrielle
