Product Manager (PlayStation Partners)
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Become part of the PlayStation family and help game creators make great games! At PlayStation Partners, we provide the tools that support creators making PlayStation games throughout the entire game development and publishing process. Join us and you join an international team dedicated to making play easier.
Whether developers or publishers, middleware companies or academia, QA or community managers, we want to enable our partners to get their jobs done with as little effort and time as possible. Your goal will be to keep things simple for them, even as the scope and complexity of the work expands. It's a unique opportunity to help build the best platform for making games on the best platform to play them!
We’re always striving to create a learning and supportive environment, where every team member is empowered to do their best work. And PlayStation provides a really competitive benefits package, including 401k, medical and dental, and many other perks.
What you’ll do
- Work closely with key global business partners to research and develop your initiatives, both within SIE and across the game industry.
- Become an advocate for your customers to the wider organization.
- Manage your backlog of goals and features and drive prioritization
- Ensure features are backed by critical metrics and that success is measured on an ongoing basis.
- Clearly convey requirements to engineering teams and provide insight into business and security rationales.
- Support product design, development and release process for your products, alongside a well-researched product development roadmap.
- Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of the competition, and maintain a technical analysis of relative strengths and weaknesses.
- Develop both internal and external product education strategies
What you'll be
- A proven product manager with at least 3 years experience shipping products, with a passion for tools and services
- Great at conveying your ideas to individuals and large audiences alike; you will be interacting with all types of people (user experience designers, engineers, managers, clients, etc.)
- Self-motivated and results oriented
- Willing and able to travel, sometimes internationally, for key meetings, when both safe and necessary
- Very happy working collaboratively with your partners, vendors, and project team members on a shared product vision
Does this sound like you? Apply today and become the newest member of our growing team!
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