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Product Management Intern, Innovation - MBA or Master's
United States, Remote: this position must be performed in a fully remote capacity.
About the Team:
As trailblazers, innovation is in SIE’s DNA. In the Platform Experience Group (PEG), we pursue it with intention, from multiple angles, with curious people empowered and activated through processes optimized for exploration, discovery, and invention. You’ll join a unique team that is chartered to explore new ways to transform and diversify our business into new areas with a focus on new customers needing new solutions, while remaining true to SIE’s central mission. We are passionate about the power of play (defined broadly) and being inspired by players and creators of all stripes.
We are looking for a creative, innovative Product Management Intern to join our innovation team! In this role you will be responsible for helping a cross-functional team of like-minded individuals create value for new kinds of customers that SIE has not traditionally served, taking new opportunities from 0→1. You’ll join a unique team that is chartered to explore new ways to transform and diversify our business into new areas with a focus on new customers needing new solutions, while remaining true to SIE’s central mission. You’ll work to discover valuable problems to solve for a variety of customers, collaborate to identify concepts that solve them in a way that creates opportunity for SIE, and help develop them towards investment and/or formal productization.
You should be passionate about learning through scrappy prototyping, testing, and experimentation, adept at using data to inform decision-making, and comfortable working through ambiguity with an ability to wear lots of hats.
Experience in customer and market research, new product incubation, product strategy & specification, and go-to-market planning is highly desired. A work or educational background in other product development disciplines such as design, software engineering, user research, or business development is a big plus. The ability to champion and promote new ideas is essential, as is the ability to be humble and leave them behind.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Research and propose new areas of exploration for customer needs and potential solutions within identified strategic themes
- Synthesize market trends, customer insights, and informed hypotheses into requirements for further research and experiments
- Contribute to development plans for experiments and prototypes
- Help identify target customer profiles and segments through synthesis of research insights
- Identify business opportunities via market sizing, value proposition, and creation of appropriate business models for solutions
- Collaborate with designers and researchers to establish critical path jobs to be done for target customers of a product solution
What We’re Looking For:
- Pursuing a graduate degree with a business curriculum or entrepreneurial experience, with a projected graduation date of Spring 2026
- 3+ years of experience in product management—or relevant undergraduate and/or graduate education—with a focus on brand new product development or product incubation highly desired
- Demonstrated history of creative problem solving and/or creative thinking, evidenced through work, school, or personal projects and experience.
- An ambitious self-starter who deals well with ambiguity, able to be a generalist who can jump in and wear lots of hats to help the team develop an idea from scratch
- Strong analytical abilities with ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems using experimentation and data
- Highly collaborative and adaptable, able to quickly adjust direction based on new learnings or changing circumstances
- Excellent communicator, able to inspire and excite team members and stakeholders around customer problems and solutions that are non-obvious
- Solid business sense with basic abilities quantify an opportunity with imperfect or incomplete information
Eligibility:
- Able to work during one of the following periods: May 19th - August 8th or June 16th - September 5th.
- Must be available for the entire 12-week internship period.
- Open to students who are U.S. citizens or international students with an F-1 visa.
- Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.
Cover Letter Requirements:
Please include a cover letter in your application for this role. In your cover letter, please address how you would bring a diverse perspective to our innovation activities beyond a love for video games and the PlayStation brand.
Our intern positions offer a fixed hourly pay rate. Please note that the pay rate is exclusive to the internship period and may not reflect what pay may look like following the completion of an internship.
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Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
Intern Pay Range
$36—$39.75 USD
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
What We Do
PlayStation has been at the forefront of interactive and digital entertainment since the debut of our first console in 1994. Our products delight millions across the world through incredible games, cutting edge experiences and access to many types of media.
This commitment to amazing our fans is at the core of who we are and one we share with Sony Corporation, internationally known as a leader in music, movies and consumer electronics.
We can only achieve this goal by welcoming talented people and empowering them to do their best work. From game developers to data scientists, software engineers to cybersecurity experts, marketing to accounting and finance professionals, we’re always looking for talented people who share a passion for creating and our commitment to delivering amazement.
