Sr. Director, Product Management

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p>
<p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><h1><span style="color: #000000;">Senior Director, Product Management – Partner Platform </span></h1>
<p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Reports to: Vice President, Product Management – Game, Player & Creator Experiences </span></p>
<p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Senior Director of Product Management, Partner Platform will lead the product organization responsible for making PlayStation the best place for partners to bring great games to players and grow their business. </span><span style="color: #000000;">This leader will own the product strategy and outcomes for the end-to-end partner experience, from learning and integrating with PlayStation through publishing, operating and growing games on the platform. </span><span style="color: #000000;">Working closely with Engineering, UX Design, Data & Analytics, Developer Relations, Publisher Relations, Business Development, Store, Commerce, Policy and other Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) teams, this leader will establish a cohesive product strategy across a partner experience that spans multiple organizations, technologies and play surfaces. </span><span style="color: #000000;">This position requires a senior product leader who can operate at both the strategic and executional level: setting product vision and strategy, developing product leaders, deeply understanding partner needs, making difficult prioritization decisions and personally engaging in the organization’s most important product challenges. </span></p>
<h2><span style="color: #000000;">Key Responsibilities </span></h2>
<p style="color: !important;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Product Strategy & Leadership </span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Own and evolve the product vision and strategy for the PlayStation Partner Platform, focused on making PlayStation the best place for partners to bring great games to players and grow their business. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Translate the strategy into clear product outcomes, priorities and investment decisions across the end-to-end partner journey. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Maintain a holistic view of partner needs, market dynamics, platform capabilities and business priorities to identify the most important opportunities for PlayStation. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Provide senior leadership with clear product recommendations, trade-offs and investment choices. </span></li>
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<p style="color: !important;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Product Organization Leadership </span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Lead, develop and coach a high-performing team of product leaders and product managers. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Establish clear ownership, priorities and ways of working across the Partner Platform product portfolio. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Build an empowered product culture focused on customer problems and measurable outcomes rather than feature delivery. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Ensure teams develop deep understanding of partners through research, data and direct engagement with developers and publishers. </span></li>
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<p style="color: !important;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Partner Experience & Outcomes </span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Drive meaningful improvements across the partner journey, from learning and integration through publishing, operation and growth. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Identify and remove unnecessary complexity while improving the clarity, consistency and predictability of the partner experience. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Ensure product investments deliver measurable improvements in Partner Health and supporting partner experience and business outcomes. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Anticipate how partner needs will evolve as PlayStation expands across new technologies, business models and play surfaces. </span></li>
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<p style="color: !important;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Cross-Functional Product Leadership </span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Build strong partnerships across Engineering, UX Design, Data & Analytics, Developer Relations, Publisher Relations, Business Development, Store, Commerce, Policy and other SIE organizations. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Align teams around shared partner outcomes while maintaining clear ownership and decision rights. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Surface dependencies, trade-offs and opportunities that span organizational boundaries and drive them toward resolution. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Represent Partner Platform Product Management in senior-level SIE strategy, planning and investment discussions. </span></li>
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<p style="color: !important;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Portfolio & Execution </span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Translate strategy into a focused portfolio of investments tied to measurable partner and business outcomes. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Prioritize opportunities based on customer value, business value, strategic importance, evidence and opportunity cost. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Establish clear measures of success and regularly assess progress, learnings and risks. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Ensure teams balance near-term partner needs with foundational platform improvements and longer-term innovation. </span></li>
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<p style="color: !important;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Leadership Expectations </span></strong></p>
<p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Senior Director will lead a team of product leaders while remaining personally engaged in the Partner Platform’s most consequential product decisions. </span></p>
<p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">The successful candidate must be able to move fluidly between: </span></p>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Setting product vision and strategy </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Developing and coaching senior product leaders </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Engaging directly with developers and publishers </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Making difficult prioritization and investment decisions </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Aligning Product, Design, Engineering and business partners around shared outcomes </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Influencing senior leaders across organizational boundaries </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Reviewing and elevating the quality of product thinking and team output </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Personally stepping into ambiguous, high-risk or strategically important product challenges </span></li>
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<p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">The role requires strong judgment regarding what to own directly, what to delegate to product leaders and empowered teams, and what appropriately remains owned by other SIE organizations. </span></p>
<h2><span style="color: #000000;">Qualifications </span></h2>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Extensive product management and product leadership experience in gaming, technology, developer platforms or another complex digital product environment. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Demonstrated experience leading and developing high-performing product management teams and senior product leaders. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Experience establishing product vision and strategy across a broad, interconnected product portfolio. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Proven ability to translate customer and business problems into clear product strategies, priorities and measurable outcomes. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with developer ecosystems, APIs, SDKs, developer tools, publishing platforms, marketplaces or B2B platforms preferred. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Demonstrated ability to work effectively across Product, Design, Engineering, Data and business organizations in a highly matrixed environment. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Experience engaging directly with sophisticated external customers, developers, publishers or business partners. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Strong understanding of product discovery, customer research, analytics and outcome-based product management. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Strong business judgment and the ability to balance partner value, player value, technical considerations and business objectives. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Exceptional written, verbal and executive presentation skills. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Ability to navigate ambiguity, challenge constructively and create clarity across complex organizations. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;">Experience in gaming, developer platforms or digital entertainment preferred. </span></li>
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<p style="color: !important;"> </p>
<p style="color: !important;"><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.<br></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. <br></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>In addition, this role </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">is eligible</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This role also may be eligible for a bonus package.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Click </span><a href="https://careers.playstation.com/benefits" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to learn more.</span></p>
<p> </p></div><div class="title">The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$252,700</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$379,100 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p class="p1">Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.</p>
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