Jobs at PlayStation

Leads the global HR technology roadmap across Workday HCM, compensation, absence, security, reporting, and integrations. Partners with HR and business stakeholders, oversees implementation and enhancement portfolios, manages cross-functional technical teams, and drives Agile delivery, governance, release management, adoption, and operational excellence. Owns SOX audit controls, security models, compliance evidence, performance testing, and long-term HR technology capability planning, including AI-driven enhancements and process optimization.

Develop and operate reliable, scalable data platforms across AWS and GCP. Build Go-based infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code, observability, deployment, scaling, failover, backup, and recovery tooling for Cassandra, Aerospike, Kafka, and Redis. Troubleshoot distributed systems, participate in on-call and incident response, improve service reliability, and collaborate across engineering and platform teams.

Develop Go services, APIs, Terraform modules, and automation for scalable database, streaming, caching, and cloud infrastructure. Operate and improve stateful data platforms, Kubernetes workloads, and infrastructure-as-code workflows. Automate deployment, scaling, recovery, and lifecycle management while enhancing observability, reliability, testing, and incident response. Build self-service and agent-assisted infrastructure experiences, troubleshoot distributed systems, define operational objectives, and collaborate across engineering, security, and platform teams.

Design, develop, and operate globally distributed PlayStation Cloud Streaming infrastructure. Build Kubernetes controllers, operators, and lifecycle-management services; own features through deployment and production support; troubleshoot reliability and performance issues; write unit and integration tests; collaborate with SRE and platform teams; contribute to architecture, documentation, automation, and engineering standards; and use AI-assisted development tools responsibly.

Develops and manages global content opportunities for third-party PlayStation games across PlayStation Blog, social media, video, and other owned channels. Partners with internal teams, publishers, and developers to plan campaigns, pitch creative stories, create audience-focused content, and extend initiatives across international markets. Uses performance insights to guide recommendations, builds scalable processes, and strengthens publisher relationships.

Leads product strategy and delivery for PlayStation Plus commerce and membership experiences, focusing on acquisition, engagement, monetization, conversion, retention, and lifecycle growth. Responsibilities include defining requirements, running experimentation, analyzing outcomes, coordinating cross-functional teams, and partnering with Marketing, Commercial, Data, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver scalable global products.

Develop and maintain cross-platform build, packaging, and release pipelines for AAA games across consoles and mobile platforms. Bring engines up on new hardware, manage SDK upgrades, resolve low-level crashes and memory issues, and evolve internal tools for profiling, metrics, and data packaging. Lead infrastructure modernization, maintain build automation, and coordinate branch integration across engineering, QA, and production teams.

Leads strategic partnerships and complex commercial deals across PlayStation Studios, from opportunity assessment and commercial structuring through negotiation, contracting, approvals, execution, and lifecycle management. Evaluates deal economics, licensing, intellectual property, financial implications, and risks while coordinating Legal, Finance, business leaders, and external partners. Develops recommendations, manages stakeholder alignment, and supports commercial partnerships across Europe and other regions.

Manage EMEA payroll operations with external vendors, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing. Review payroll data and outputs, resolve discrepancies, coordinate with HR, Finance, Compensation, Benefits, and mobility teams, and support international assignee shadow payrolls. Maintain procedures, respond to payroll queries, manage service-level agreements, and implement process improvements across complex international payroll activities.

Leads Sony Interactive Entertainment’s global patent prosecution strategy and teams across San Mateo, London, and Tokyo. Manages invention intake, portfolio development, domestic and international applications, outside counsel, patent workshops, legal and business counseling, technical trend analysis, process improvement, and prosecution budgets. Partners with engineering, product, and legal teams while advising senior leadership on patent-related issues.

Develop and maintain automated UI and API tests, test frameworks, and quality engineering processes across platforms and devices. Plan testing strategies, execute functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests, investigate automation and CI/CD failures, track defects, and collaborate with engineering and product teams on release readiness and quality improvements.

Analyze commercial performance, content engagement, subscription trends, and revenue optimization opportunities for PlayStation Services. Build reporting tools, dashboards, and data visualizations using SQL, Python, and related analytics technologies. Translate ambiguous business questions into actionable insights, assess initiative impact, support strategic decisions, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders across global teams.

Leads complex entertainment business affairs negotiations for film, television, licensing, co-production, talent, and other content arrangements. Sets commercial strategy, structures deals, advises senior leadership, evaluates economics and risk, and protects the long-term value of PlayStation intellectual property. Partners with Finance, Legal, Creative, and game studios while independently negotiating with studios, platforms, producers, agencies, and rights holders.

Apprentice supporting Platform Certification and Operations through compliance and software testing, bug investigation, test case execution, documentation, business administration, support ticket coordination, communications, and process improvement. The role includes training across testing and business support functions, with four days onsite in Liverpool and one day at college.

Capture high-quality gameplay footage and screenshots for marketing, promotional, in-game, and social content. Stage gameplay scenarios, operate capture hardware and recording software, troubleshoot builds and equipment, and manage recording settings. Organize and distribute assets using accurate naming, file management, and build records. Collaborate with producers, creative directors, developers, marketing, and editorial teams to fulfill content requests and meet technical and creative standards.

Capture high-quality gameplay footage and screenshots for marketing, promotional, in-game, and social content. Stage gameplay scenarios from creative briefs, operate capture hardware and recording devices, configure settings, troubleshoot builds and equipment, and organize assets. Collaborate with producers, creative directors, developers, marketing, and editorial teams while tracking requests, maintaining file standards, and meeting multiple deadlines.

Test PlayStation game submissions across supported platforms for compliance with technical requirements. Identify, investigate, document, and report bugs; verify manual functionality reports; review applications for legal, copyright, and age-rating issues; follow CertOps procedures; maintain knowledge of platform requirements and systems; communicate progress and support team training.

Partners with Commercial and Marketing teams to drive profitable growth through budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, ROI assessment, P&L analysis, reporting, and financial insights. Leads planning activities, evaluates commercial and marketing investments, supports pricing and business cases, maintains financial data quality, and improves planning processes using SAP, Anaplan, Excel, Power BI, and Domo. Collaborates with local, European, and global stakeholders and supports audit activities.

Lead design, configuration, and upgrades of the COUPA platform; own prioritization and delivery of finance initiatives; design interfaces and integrations (SAP, MuleSoft); validate testing and documentation; troubleshoot production issues and support integration and analytics across SAP/COUPA landscape.

Provide desktop, service-desk, and infrastructure support for game development teams: resolve incidents for desktops/laptops/peripherals/accounts, handle onboarding/offboarding and device provisioning, support projects (workstation refreshes, software rollouts), maintain SLAs, document solutions, and ensure security/compliance of endpoints and software.