Jobs at PlayStation

Develop and optimize low-level C/C++ systems for PlayStation’s real-time game streaming stack. Responsibilities include reducing end-to-end latency, configuring hardware video encoders, analyzing media pipelines, debugging system services, profiling performance, and prototyping streaming improvements. The role involves collaboration across codec, platform, and research teams to improve video quality, bitrate efficiency, and streaming reliability.

Leads EMEA HR compliance, policy governance, regulatory change, risk controls, audits, data privacy, record retention, and compliance programs. Oversees right-to-work, background screening, fixed-term employment, employee data rights, reporting, vendors, and continuous improvement. Partners with Legal, Privacy, Technology, Talent Acquisition, and HR teams while leading UK and Ireland leave-of-absence operations and managing a compliance team.

Manage EMEA payroll operations with external vendors, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing. Review payroll data and outputs, resolve discrepancies, coordinate with HR, Finance, Compensation, Benefits, and mobility teams, and support international assignee shadow payrolls. Maintain procedures, respond to payroll queries, manage service-level agreements, and implement process improvements across complex international payroll activities.

Build and manage strategic advertising partnerships for PlayStation, driving account revenue, profitability, product adoption, and client satisfaction. Develop consultative relationships, identify marketing opportunities, lead strategic conversations, manage pipelines and forecasts, and serve as the primary client contact. Collaborate with revenue operations, product, and cross-functional teams to develop business cases and improve advertising solutions. Travel as required and represent PlayStation ethically with external partners.

Provides technical support and guidance to game developers and publishers using PlayStation network services, APIs, tools, and technologies. Investigates and escalates technical issues, collaborates with internal and regional teams, gathers partner feedback, improves developer-facing tools and documentation, automates workflows, and delivers technical training and presentations.

Lead global direct-to-consumer commercial strategy initiatives from opportunity identification through launch, optimization, and operational handover. Translate customer, market, competitive, and trade data into recommendations, business cases, measurement frameworks, and product direction. Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Analytics, Data Science, Finance, Legal, and Operations teams while influencing senior stakeholders, shaping ML roadmaps, managing change, and delivering measurable commercial growth.

Leads the PlayStation Store’s integrated global trading plan across launches, promotions, pricing, catalog, lifecycle activity, and major events. Coordinates recurring planning cycles, maintains planning sources of truth, tracks dependencies and risks, connects performance insights to future plans, drives prioritization and trade-offs, and improves governance, intake, automation, and cross-functional execution.

Leads business analysis for global PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct initiatives. Translates complex commercial needs into testable requirements, aligns senior stakeholders and cross-functional delivery teams, redesigns business processes, evaluates strategic trade-offs, and supports data-informed decisions. Partners with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, and Finance to deliver scalable commerce solutions while mentoring practitioners and improving business-analysis standards.

Leads product strategy and delivery for PlayStation Plus commerce and membership experiences, focusing on acquisition, engagement, monetization, conversion, retention, and lifecycle growth. Responsibilities include defining requirements, running experimentation, analyzing outcomes, coordinating cross-functional teams, and partnering with Marketing, Commercial, Data, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver scalable global products.

Leads global PlayStation Store catalogue strategy, promotional planning, experimentation, prioritisation, and commercial performance. Translates content roadmaps, forecasts, commitments, and requests into integrated plans and calendars; coordinates global and local stakeholders; directs promotion testing with analytics partners; and manages a two-person catalogue planning team. Requires 10+ years in strategy, operations, pricing, promotions, or ecommerce, strong commercial analytics, programme leadership, stakeholder influence, and people-management experience.

Develops strategic influencer plans for PlayStation’s games, hardware, services, sponsorships, campaigns, and cultural moments. Responsibilities include portfolio prioritization, investment recommendations, global-local planning, creator strategy, KPI frameworks, measurement, playbooks, stakeholder communications, and cross-functional coordination with brand, media, studios, social, PR, agencies, and local markets.

Leads a 30-person enterprise reporting and analytics engineering organization. Owns the roadmap, budget, hiring, governance, semantic models, metric layer, data products, visualization platforms, metadata, lineage, and reporting rationalization. Partners with Data Engineering, Product Management, and Data Science to deliver governed analytics, AI-enabled access, anomaly detection, and proactive analytic agents. Establishes engineering standards, intake and prioritization processes, self-service capabilities, and executive-facing data solutions.

Build software, automation, integrations, and AI-driven tools that improve localization quality across design, development, and release. Review Figma designs and systems for localization readiness, perform multilingual functional and visual QA, investigate internationalization issues, and establish quality standards. Collaborate with design, product, engineering, and localization teams to shift quality practices earlier in the lifecycle, integrate validation into CI/CD, and mentor team members.

Leads measurement strategy across PlayStation by designing experiments, causal inference methodologies, statistical models, and machine learning solutions. Establishes experimentation best practices, influences platform capabilities, partners with product and business leaders, communicates analytical recommendations, and mentors data scientists and analysts. The role provides technical leadership for evidence-based product and commercial decisions affecting millions of players.

Leads strategic partnerships and complex commercial deals across PlayStation Studios, from opportunity assessment and commercial structuring through negotiation, contracting, approvals, execution, and lifecycle management. Evaluates deal economics, licensing, intellectual property, financial implications, and risks while coordinating Legal, Finance, business leaders, and external partners. Develops recommendations, manages stakeholder alignment, and supports commercial partnerships across Europe and other regions.

Lead design, configuration, and upgrades of the COUPA platform; own prioritization and delivery of finance initiatives; design interfaces and integrations (SAP, MuleSoft); validate testing and documentation; troubleshoot production issues and support integration and analytics across SAP/COUPA landscape.

As Director of Product Management, lead a team to develop and manage live service games, collaborating with studios on strategy, insights, and performance growth.

Measure product and commercial impact using experimentation, quasi-experimental and observational causal inference. Design experiments, apply statistical and ML methods, build reusable analytics, partner with product and engineering, and communicate insights to stakeholders to support evidence-based decisions.

Serve as a technical liaison for game development partners on PlayStation platforms: manage relationships, identify and resolve project risks, provide onsite support and training, collect partner feedback, and coordinate with internal engineering and account teams. Frequent travel to Japan and Korea.

The Director of Development Strategy manages global portfolio reviews for PlayStation Studios, fostering relationships, providing insights, and improving development frameworks.