Staff Data Scientist — Experimentation & Measurement (Hybrid)

Sony Interactive Entertainment; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 318,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts on Sony products

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to lead experimentation initiatives across PlayStation. You will design and interpret experiments, shape measurement strategies, and apply causal inference to high-impact programs reaching millions of players worldwide.

You will partner with product, engineering, marketing, and senior leadership to embed experimentation into development cycles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 6+ years in a data science experimentation/causal inference-focused role (4+ with PhD).
• Deep expertise in A/B testing and causal inference, including quasi-experimental methods.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
• Broad and applied knowledge of statistical techniques.
• Experience with machine learning modeling is a plus.
• Proven ability to influence product and business decisions through clear, actionable insights.
• Experience contributing to or developing experimentation frameworks, best practices, or internal tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and interpret A/B tests and quasi-experiments, applying advanced causal inference where needed.
• Partner with product, engineering, and marketing to embed experimentation into development cycles and communicate results to senior leadership.
• Mentor and guide other Data Scientists with technical direction.
• Serve as a thought leader on hypothesis development, metric selection, test structure, and results communication.
• Help define and contribute to centralized experimentation frameworks, tools, and documentation to scale best practices.
• Independently extract, transform, and analyze data from complex systems using SQL, Python, and other analytics tools.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive business decisions with rigor.
• Stay current on new methodologies in experimentation and causal analysis.

Skills

A/B testing

Causal inference

SQL

Python

Statistical methods

Influence decisions

Experimentation frameworks

ML modeling

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's or PhD in Statistics/Econometrics

Quantitative discipline degree

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to lead experimentation initiatives across PlayStation. You will design and interpret experiments, shape measurement strategies, and apply causal inference to high-impact programs reaching millions of players worldwide.

You will partner with product, engineering, marketing, and senior leadership to embed experimentation into development cycles.