Director, Data Science Product Leadership

Sony Interactive Entertainment; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 273,000 - 410,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Director of Data Science Product Management to lead strategy, prioritization, and execution of data science initiatives across PlayStation. This role will oversee a portfolio spanning CLV, lifecycle intelligence, forecasting, simulations, and audience intelligence, partnering with analytics leaders to deliver measurable business value.

The Director will drive discipline in experimentation, productionization, and adoption, guiding senior stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, ora related field.
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including 8+ years in digital product management, data product management, AI/ML product management, analytics product management, or related roles.
• 6+ years of people management experience, including experience leading Product Managers or senior product‑oriented analytics leaders.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross‑functional portfolios involving Data Science, ML Engineering, Analytics, Data Engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of data science and machine learning workflows, including experimentation, predictive modeling, forecasting, segmentation, recommender systems, lifecycle modeling,productionization, and monitoring.
• Experience with products or capabilities related to CLV/LTV, personalization, churn, propensity modeling, forecasting, audience targeting, marketing optimization, commerce, or digital engagement.
• Familiarity with modern data and ML ecosystems such as SQL, Python, Snowflake, Spark, feature stores,MLOpstools, model monitoring, APIs, and analytics platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business needs into product strategies, roadmaps, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts into business impact.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing high‑performing product teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate business priorities into structured problem statements, investment cases, product strategies, and measurable outcomes, ensuring data science work is managed as a scalable product portfolio rather than one-off analytical requests.
• Drive product strategy and lifecycle ownership for player value and decision intelligence capabilities, such as CLV, engagement and forecasting, ensuringhigh qualityproducts are advanced from discovery throughproductionization, adoption, monitoring, iteration, and long‑term value realization.
• Establish clear criteria for when analytical work should remain exploratory, become a recurring decision process, or graduate into a production‑grade product.
• Define success metrics and quality standards for data science products, including business impact, adoption, reliability, interpretability, model quality, operational sustainability, and decision quality.
• Partner with Data Science and Analytics leaders to ensure rigor across experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, incrementality measurement, model evaluation, and value analysis, while promoting these approaches as core decision‑making tools.
• Influence senior stakeholders across functions to align strategy, clarify priorities, manage tradeoffs, and drive adoption of data science products.
• Guide Product Managers across the product lifecycle while directly leading or sponsoring the organization’s highest‑impact and most ambiguous product initiatives.
• Create a strong Data Science product culture centered on hypothesis‑driven discovery, evidence‑based prioritization, measurable business impact and close partnership with cross‑functional partners.

Skills

Data science product management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

AI/ML product management

Product strategy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Data Science/CS/Statistics/Economics/Engineering

Tools

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Spark

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Director of Data Science Product Management to lead strategy, prioritization, and execution of data science initiatives across PlayStation. This role will oversee a portfolio spanning CLV, lifecycle intelligence, forecasting, simulations, and audience intelligence, partnering with analytics leaders to deliver measurable business value.

The Director will drive discipline in experimentation, productionization, and adoption, guiding senior stakeholders