Staff Product Manager, PlayStation

Innovation

$157-235.4k

Senior and Expert level

Los Angeles

Gaming and digital entertainment provider

Job no longer available

Gaming and digital entertainment provider

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmenteSports

Job no longer available

$157-235.4k

Senior and Expert level

Los Angeles

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmenteSports

Company mission

To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

7+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on brand new product development or product incubation highly desired
History of operating with a start-up mentality, thinking and acting creatively
An ambitious self-starter who deals well with ambiguity, able to be a generalist who can jump in and wear lots of hats to build something from scratch
Strong analytical abilities and proclivity for testing with demonstrated ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems using experimentation and data to inform decision-making
Highly collaborative and adaptable, able to quickly adjust direction based on new learnings or changing circumstances
Excellent communicator, able to inspire and excite stakeholders team members and stakeholders around customer problems and solutions that are non-obvious
Solid business sense with basic abilities to size a market and quantify an opportunity with imperfect or incomplete information
Experience in working with a wide array of partners across organizations, including design, engineering, project management, data + research teams, legal, and marketing

What the job involves

As trailblazers, innovation is in SIE’s DNA. In the Platform Experience Group (PEG), we pursue it with intention, from multiple angles, with curious people empowered and activated through processes optimized for exploration, discovery, and invention
You’ll join a unique team that is chartered to explore new ways to transform and diversify our business into new areas with a focus on new customers needing new solutions, while remaining true to SIE’s central mission
Define and propose new areas of exploration for customer needs and potential solutions within identified strategic themes
Synthesize market trends, customer insights, and informed hypotheses into requirements for further research and experiments
Set learning goals, create and manage KPIs and metrics for tests and experiments
Partner cross-functionally to create and manage development plans for experiments and prototypes including resource allocation, timelines, and budgets
Drive prioritization and product development direction for solutions as they mature through various phases of early customer feedback cycles
Define target customer profiles and segments through synthesis of research insights
Facilitate or drive development of associated business opportunities and approach including market sizing, value proposition, and appropriate business models for solutions
Collaborate with designers and researchers to establish critical path jobs to be done for target customers of a product solution
Craft product strategies for maturing solutions to drive towards product market fit

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 revolutionise 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.