Senior Planning and Program Manager, PlayStation
Global Partner Development & Relations
$138.2-207.4k
2+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Open for applications
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$138.2-207.4k
2+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in business/management consulting, finance in consumer electronics, digital entertainment or video game industry, project management, business planning, business operations or similar
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required for a wide variety of audiences across the business and up to executive level
- Robust fiscal, organisational and project management capabilities, including the ability to build, lead, and monitor internal budget tracking systems, timelines with inter-related dependencies
- Experience in establishing and developing programs involving multiple internal functions, preferably at global scale
- Ability to work through change with both business and employee needs in mind
- Consistent track record offering appropriate business solutions using data-driven insights
- Strong collaborative working style to achieve results
- A long-term strategic planner able to identify and adjust short- and medium-term workflows at pace
- A passion for getting things done simply and quickly
- Interest in gaming, gamer culture, digital entertainment and consumer electronics is advantageous
- Experience of working in a global environment an advantage
- MBA preferred
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Sr. Program Manager to support the Global Partner Development & Relations (GPDR) leadership team in leading business operations, strategic engagements, and cross-functional initiatives
- This role will drive program management efforts, ensuring alignment across GPDR, relevant Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) teams, and Sony Group Corporation
- Key responsibilities include facilitating planning, content creation, and strategic frameworks to achieve measurable objectives and KPIs
- Additionally, the role will support business modeling, ROI calculations, and investment strategies for internal and partner-facing projects
- Providing executive support in ongoing Budget and Planning management
- Handling high impact programs from end-to-end that affect large cohorts of internal colleagues, ensuring timelines are realistic and delivered
- Working self-sufficiently on projects, sometimes within ambiguous circumstances and in fast turnaround times
- Producing high quality presentation materials with a clear and concise narrative, suitable for wide and senior audiences
- Crafting relationships with internal teams, operating as the authority for your business area
- Proactively evangelizing the value and importance of the work of our team and division, ensuring appropriate consensus
- Running internal Sharepoint sites for corporate submissions and for employee information
- Leading meetings, driving agenda to start and end promptly, and ensure objectives achieved
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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