Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, PlayStation
AMER/EMEA
$261-391.4k
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Gaming and digital entertainment provider
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Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$261-391.4k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a leader with a growth approach and a willingness to roll up their sleeves to deliver!
- Over 15 years of experience in recruiting across all levels, from entry-level to executive, within high-growth environments
- Extensive leadership in talent acquisition, including 5+ years managing managers and team leads, and over a decade of experience overseeing recruitment operations in geographically dispersed settings
- Ability to use storytelling to effectively communicate employee experience to candidates and internal stakeholders
- Exhibits cultural competence and agility, embracing diverse perspectives to foster engagement and inspire innovative solutions to complex challenges
- Proven ability to coach and mentor senior leaders on strategic workforce issues
- Tremendous emotional intelligence and great judgment make you a trusted partner of SIE business leaders, an inspirational leader to your team, and a trusted coach to senior candidates
- Proven ability to create programs and plans that ensure SIE gets to know and attracts the best talent out there before they are even actively searching
- Ability to create an internal talent acquisition team for employee development and mobility
- Comprehensive knowledge of current HR/talent, and the ability to think outside of what’s been done before to come up with the best solution to impact a 3–5-year horizon
- Ability to learn/flex and adapt to changing business needs, modeling the strength of adaptability
- Strong analytical mindset—leveraging data to uncover insights, tell compelling stories, and drive strategic decisions
- Naturally inquisitive, you seek to understand and solve problems by instinctively turning to data
- Fluent in recruiting analytics, with expertise in building and optimizing systems and processes to enhance efficiency and impact
- Strong innovator & strategic problem solver: can envision and create an enhanced acquisition strategy for a growing diverse workforce
- Responds positively to stressful situations, demonstrating initiative in conflict resolution
- Adaptable, resilient, and quick to recover from setbacks
- Proven track record to influence, manage a budget, as well as vendors
What the job involves
- PlayStation is seeking a Sr Director, Talent Acquisition leader to help evolve PlayStation TA and redefine the way we recruit talent into the PlayStation community
- The position will be responsible for defining and implementing our AMER/EMEA Talent Acquisition Strategy, building strong partnerships with key customers across the globe, leading our early career and intern programs, directing our Global Contingent Worker program and driving the delivery of best-in-class TA Operations including but not limited to, programs, training, reporting and processes
- With both a strategic lens and passion for detail, you lead people and bring a servant leadership approach to bear
- Design and implement strategic, data-driven recruitment initiatives to support all divisions within SIE, with a primary focus on Corporate and Engineering in AMER and EMEA
- Collaborate closely with Executives and partners to provide thought leadership for recruiting philosophies, processes, tools and tactics for both executive and non-executive talent acquisition needs
- Build a data-driven recruiting organization and process, including analytics, and dashboards, using an existing ATS, and a culture of continuous improvement using data insights to shape our operational roadmap and priorities
- Create training programs and ways of working with hiring managers and interviewers that continually improve their capabilities
- Partner with HR leaders and hiring managers across businesses to deliver exceptional recruiting services in support of the overall objective to recruit top talent
- Partner with leaders to drive recruiting-related initiatives that make SIE a great place to work for all talent
- Ensure that all managers receive training on recruitment and selection process, including record keeping requirements
- Develop and implement Strategic Growth projects in support of long-term vision goals
- Drive our Global Contingent Worker program and best practices in this space
- Benchmark industry competitors introducing intelligence into the ways of working and overall operation to drive success
- Identify trade and professional conferences to strategically recruit and brand the SIE business in the marketplace
- Handle various talent acquisition vendors including recruiting agencies, background check service, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
- Free fruit every day in our offices
- On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
- On-site subsidised cafés
- On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care assistance
- x2 volunteering days each year
- Group pension plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
- Free giveaways of select first party products and services
- Discounts on PlayStation products
- Discounts on Sony products
- Access to other corporate discounts
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO, not founder)Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.
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