Data Science Manager, Payments & Subscriptions (Remote)

PlayStation; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is hiring a Data Science Manager to lead a focused team overseeing payments, subscriptions, and lifecycle analytics. You’ll own the scientific roadmap, mentor data scientists, and partner with product, engineering, finance, marketing, and operations to translate business questions into actionable, evidence-based recommendations.

The role emphasizes review of experimental designs, metrics, models, and analytical code, guiding complex problems, and delivering

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience in data science, applied statistics, machine learning, or a related quantitative field.
• 2+ years of people management experience, or equivalent experience in formal technical leadership.
• Strong background in experimentation, causal inference, metric design, and decision science for digital products or consumer businesses.
• Deep fluency with SQL and Python, with the ability to review analytical code and guide design.
• Proven ability to prioritize cross‑functional work and communicate clear recommendations, confidence levels, and next actions.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, onboard, and develop a team of data scientists supporting a defined commerce, payments, subscriptions, and lifecycle portfolio.
• Own the team’s roadmap, intake, prioritization, capacity planning, and stakeholder alignment.
• Partner with business and technical leaders to define the decisions to be made, hypotheses, success metrics, measurement plans, and recommendations for action.
• Guide experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, and modeling work that improves payment and subscription decisions.
• Review experiment designs, analytical code, data quality, metric definitions, model assumptions, uncertainty, and recommendations.
• Coach data scientists to strengthen scientific judgment, stakeholder influence, and communication.
• Set practical standards for reproducible analysis, documentation, reusable workflows, and communication of results.
• Communicate recommendations, expected impact, confidence, limitations, and next actions so partners can make informed decisions

Skills

Data science

People leadership

Experimentation

Causal inference

Decision science

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is hiring a Data Science Manager to lead a focused team overseeing payments, subscriptions, and lifecycle analytics. You’ll own the scientific roadmap, mentor data scientists, and partner with product, engineering, finance, marketing, and operations to translate business questions into actionable, evidence-based recommendations.

The role emphasizes review of experimental designs, metrics, models, and analytical code, guiding complex problems, and delivering