Data Science Manager, Payments & Subscriptions – Remote

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts on Sony products

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Data Science Manager in San Diego to lead a dedicated team focused on improving how players pay, subscribe, and recover from payment failures. You will own the scientific roadmap, mentor staff, and partner with product, engineering, finance, and marketing to convert business questions into evidence-based decisions.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and technical excellence in experimentation, forecasting, and decision science.

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 leadership with mentoring and driving outcomes.
• 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 model 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 decisions, hypotheses, success metrics, and measurement plans.
• Guide experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, and modeling to improve 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 standards for reproducible analysis, documentation, reusable workflows, and communication of results.
• Communicate recommendations, impact, confidence, limitations, and next actions.

Skills

Data science

People management

Experimentation

Causal inference

Metric design

Decision science

SQL

Python

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Data Science Manager in San Diego to lead a dedicated team focused on improving how players pay, subscribe, and recover from payment failures. You will own the scientific roadmap, mentor staff, and partner with product, engineering, finance, and marketing to convert business questions into evidence-based decisions.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and technical excellence in experimentation, forecasting, and decision science.