About the role
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, the company is a dynamic technology company, delivering hardware and network services to more than 100 million people, and an entertainment leader home to recognized intellectual properties (IP). The role is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand.
Role Overview
Senior Director, Product Management – Partner Platform
Reports to: Vice President, Product Management – Game, Player & Creator Experiences
The Senior Director of Product Management, Partner Platform will lead the product organization responsible for making PlayStation the best place for partners to bring games to players and grow their business. This leader will own the product strategy and outcomes for the end-to-end partner experience, from learning and integrating with PlayStation through publishing, operating, and growing games on the platform.
This role requires a senior product leader who can operate at both the strategic and executional level: setting product vision and strategy, developing product leaders, deeply understanding partner needs, making difficult prioritization decisions, and personally engaging in the organization’s most important product challenges.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Leadership
- Own and evolve the product vision and strategy for the PlayStation Partner Platform.
- Translate the strategy into clear product outcomes, priorities, and investment decisions across the end-to-end partner journey.
- Maintain a holistic view of partner needs, market dynamics, platform capabilities, and business priorities to identify key opportunities.
- Provide senior leadership with clear product recommendations, trade-offs, and investment choices.
Product Organization Leadership
- Lead, develop, and coach a high-performing team of product leaders and product managers.
- Establish clear ownership, priorities, and ways of working across the Partner Platform product portfolio.
- Build an empowered product culture focused on customer problems and measurable outcomes rather than feature delivery.
- Ensure teams develop a deep understanding of partners through research, data, and direct engagement with developers and publishers.
Partner Experience & Outcomes
- Drive improvements across the partner journey, from learning and integration through publishing, operation, and growth.
- Identify and remove unnecessary complexity while improving the clarity, consistency, and predictability of the partner experience.
- Ensure product investments deliver measurable improvements in Partner Health and supporting business outcomes.
- Anticipate how partner needs will evolve as PlayStation expands across new technologies, business models, and play surfaces.
Cross-Functional Product Leadership
- Build strong partnerships across Engineering, UX Design, Data & Analytics, Developer Relations, Publisher Relations, Business Development, Store, Commerce, Policy, and other SIE organizations.
- Align teams around shared partner outcomes while maintaining clear ownership and decision rights.
- Surface dependencies, trade-offs, and opportunities that span organizational boundaries and drive them toward resolution.
- Represent Partner Platform Product Management in senior-level SIE strategy, planning, and investment discussions.
Portfolio & Execution
- Translate strategy into a focused portfolio of investments tied to measurable partner and business outcomes.
- Prioritize opportunities based on customer value, business value, strategic importance, evidence, and opportunity cost.
- Establish clear measures of success and regularly assess progress, learnings, and risks.
- Ensure teams balance near-term partner needs with foundational platform improvements and longer-term innovation.
Leadership Expectations
The Senior Director will lead a team of product leaders while remaining personally engaged in the Partner Platform’s most consequential product decisions. The successful candidate must be able to move fluidly between:
- Setting product vision and strategy.
- Developing and coaching senior product leaders.
- Engaging directly with developers and publishers.
- Making difficult prioritization and investment decisions.
- Aligning Product, Design, Engineering, and business partners around shared outcomes.
- Influencing senior leaders across organizational boundaries.
- Reviewing and elevating the quality of product thinking and team output.
- Personally stepping into ambiguous, high-risk, or strategically important product challenges.
Qualifications
- Extensive product management and product leadership experience in gaming, technology, developer platforms, or another complex digital product environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing high-performing product management teams and senior product leaders.
- Experience establishing product vision and strategy across a broad, interconnected product portfolio.
- Proven ability to translate customer and business problems into clear product strategies, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience with developer ecosystems, APIs, SDKs, developer tools, publishing platforms, marketplaces, or B2B platforms preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and business organizations in a highly matrixed environment.
- Experience engaging directly with sophisticated external customers, developers, publishers, or business partners.
- Strong understanding of product discovery, customer research, analytics, and outcome-based product management.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to balance partner value, player value, technical considerations, and business objectives.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and executive presentation skills.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, challenge constructively, and create clarity across complex organizations.
- Experience in gaming, developer platforms, or digital entertainment preferred.
Compensation and Benefits
Estimated Base Pay Range: $252,700 - $379,100 USD.
The base pay range may vary in line with a hybrid working policy. Individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for a bonus package.
Benefits Package:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Matching 401(k).
- Paid time off.
- Wellness program.
- Employee discounts for Sony products.
Additional Information
- Working Conditions: Hybrid working policy applies.
- Background Checks: Conducted at the offer stage for all new employees, which may include criminal background checks.
- Equal Opportunity: Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, religion, marital status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other protected categories. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer.