Senior Data Scientist — Measurement & Causal Inference

Playstatio; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus opportunity

Hybrid Working (FlexModes)

Private medical insurance

25 days annual leave

On-site gym

Complimentary beverages and snacks

On-site bar

Cycle storage and showers

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Scientist in London to shape how PlayStation measures product impact. You will lead advanced experimentation, causal inference, and analytical initiatives that translate into business decisions with wide reach.

Collaborate across product, engineering, analytics and business teams to raise measurement standards, mentor analysts and drive adoption of best practices, while staying at the forefront of statistics and ML in a gaming context.

Qualifications

• Master's degree (or equivalent) in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science or another quantitative discipline; PhD preferred.
• 5+ years of experience applying experimentation, causal inference, statistical modelling and measurement science to solve complex business problems.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL for large-scale analytical workflows.
• Experience developing reusable analytical methodologies, frameworks or libraries that improve measurement quality and consistency across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive adoption through collaboration and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative measurement methodologies across experimentation, causal inference and advanced analytics.
• Design robust measurement approaches across randomized experiments, quasi-experimental methods and observational causal inference.
• Research, evaluate and prototype statistical, machine learning and AI techniques to solve complex measurement challenges.
• Apply advanced data science and machine learning techniques to complement experimentation and support business decisions.
• Define and promote best practices for experiment design, statistical analysis and causal measurement across multiple teams.

Skills

Experiment design

Causal inference

Statistical modelling

Python

SQL

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

Master's degree or PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Git

Airflow

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Scientist in London to shape how PlayStation measures product impact. You will lead advanced experimentation, causal inference, and analytical initiatives that translate into business decisions with wide reach.

Collaborate across product, engineering, analytics and business teams to raise measurement standards, mentor analysts and drive adoption of best practices, while staying at the forefront of statistics and ML in a gaming context.