Director, Data Science Product Management — Lead High-Impact AI

PlayStation Global; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 273,000 - 410,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) invites a seasoned Director of Data Science Product Management to lead strategy, prioritization, and execution of data science initiatives across PlayStation.

You will oversee a portfolio spanning CLV, lifecycle intelligence, forecasting, and decision automation, guiding a team of product managers to deliver high-value data products that drive measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Translate ambiguous business needs into product strategies, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead complex, cross-functional portfolios involving data science and analytics teams.
• Proven ability to drive adoption of data products and deliver tangible business impact.

Responsibilities

• Translate business priorities into structured problem statements, investment cases, product strategies, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive product strategy and lifecycle ownership for player value and decision intelligence capabilities.
• Establish criteria for exploratory vs. production-grade data products.
• Define success metrics and quality standards for data science products.
• Partner with data leaders to ensure rigor across experimentation and evaluation.
• Influence senior stakeholders to align strategy and drive adoption.
• Guide Product Managers across the lifecycle of data products.
• Foster a data science product culture focused on hypothesis-driven discovery.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Product strategy

Hypothesis-driven discovery

Mentoring teams

Education

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

Tools

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Spark

ML Ops tools

APIs

Analytics platforms

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) invites a seasoned Director of Data Science Product Management to lead strategy, prioritization, and execution of data science initiatives across PlayStation.

You will oversee a portfolio spanning CLV, lifecycle intelligence, forecasting, and decision automation, guiding a team of product managers to deliver high-value data products that drive measurable business outcomes.