Head of Technology, PlayStation
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Posted today
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership: Consistent track record of leading, growing, and managing high performing technical teams, including experience mentoring engineers
- Project Management: Solid experience in managing multiple projects and timelines, with a strong understanding of Agile or other game development methodologies
- Forward-thinking: Passion for staying ahead of technological trends in gaming, AI, real-time graphics, multiplayer systems, and computing
- Collaboration: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical collaborators
- Technical Understanding: Ability to understand and reason about new and unfamiliar technical concepts owned by different areas of the business, often despite a lack of direct experience
- Communication: Strong communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical team members, partners, leaders, and stake holders
- Broad familiarity with game development workflows of varying types, engineering-focused and otherwise
- Ability to analyze and diagnose issues as they’re occurring on computer systems
- Ability to analyze a computer process for scalability and deployment
What the job involves
- In this role, the Head of Technology is responsible for establishing, championing and maintaining a vision for technical excellence at the studio
- They develop strategies to deliver on that vision, represent those strategies both internally and externally to the studio, and direct the studio's technology functions in their successful execution
- They ensure that technology-related decision-making across departments and projects is sound and enables the studio to consistently deliver excellence, in budget, on time, and together
- Defines, socializes, and deploys the studio’s near- and long-term technology vision, strategy, and goals in alignment with the studio’s overall business and creative objectives
- Provides leadership for all technology departments, working in concert with department heads and project leaders to develop strategies to sustainably deliver excellence on multiple simultaneous projects while maintaining the well-being of the studio
- Creates a cohesive technology organization, ensuring that all engineering and information technology teams collaborate effectively and maintain a culture of ownership and innovation
- Manages and forecasts the technology budget, ensuring sufficient investment in the people, resources, tools and infrastructure necessary to achieve strategic objectives
- Develops plans for the implementation of software, hardware, and support for new gaming platforms and technology in partnership with department and project leaders
- Collaborates with senior leadership to align strategy, policies, and procedures with the studio's overarching vision and mission
- Evangelizes and champions technical perspectives to inform and bolster senior leadership decision-making
- Represents the studio in external engagements and fosters strong, mutually beneficial relationships with PlayStation Studios, SIE, and other key partners
- Advises all technology-related decision-making across the studio – continuously anticipating and solving critical cross-departmental, cross-functional, creative, and technical challenges
- Remains up to date with competitors’ technical capabilities, and investigates forward-looking technology that improves the overall quality, efficiency, and efficacy of our projects and teams
- Oversees adherence to industry standards, data security policies, and legal regulations in its technical operations
- Ensures that all complaints and concerns related to inappropriate or unprofessional conduct in the workplace are addressed immediately to foster a safe work environment
- Other duties may be assigned
- Accountable for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of combined Technology group, including direct management of Department Heads
- Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws
- Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; coaching, mentoring, and developing employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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
Articles
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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at PlayStation
- We're proud to celebrate diversity at PlayStation
- Our Employee Resource groups, including Women@PlayStation, REPRESENT@PlayStation, Wellbeing@PlayStation, and our award-winning LGBTQ+ group, Pride@PlayStation, actively promote inclusion in the workplace and beyond
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