Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal
Product Manager
Canada, Waterloo, ON. Posted 2 months ago
The role
This person will own product discovery, strategy, prioritization, and execution for new mobile and web experiences. They will identify product opportunities, analyze user behavior, and work with Design, Engineering, and Marketing to build products.
What you will do
- Define and evolve product vision, strategy, roadmap, and opportunity pipeline.
- Identify and validate product opportunities through user research and experimentation.
- Develop understanding of user needs and represent the voice of the user.
- Translate insights into product initiatives, briefs, requirements, and success criteria.
- Evaluate and prioritize opportunities based on value, impact, and effort.
- Own product planning, roadmap prioritization, and sprint planning.
- Partner with Design and Engineering to take products from concept to launch.
- Define product goals, KPIs, and analytics requirements.
- Analyze user behaviors including acquisition, engagement, and retention using data.
- Develop hypotheses and lead structured experiments like A/B tests and usability studies.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of consumer-facing mobile, web, social, gaming, marketplace, or other digital product experiences.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven track record of taking new products, features, or major initiatives from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Strong product-discovery skills including user interviews and qualitative research.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills using product analytics and business-intelligence tools.
- Ability to work directly with data using SQL or an equivalent analytical workflow.
- Experience defining product goals, KPIs, instrumentation requirements, experiment plans, and success criteria.
- Ability to translate ambiguous opportunities into clear product strategies and roadmaps.
- Strong prioritization and decision-making skills.
- Experience working closely with designers and engineers in an iterative development environment.
- Strong understanding of modern consumer product development.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
Nice to have
- Experience building social, community, communications, or network-driven consumer products.
- Experience in gaming, mobile games, entertainment, or another highly engaged digital consumer category.
- Deep knowledge of player behaviours, gaming culture, online communities, and industry trends.
- Experience as a founding, first, or sole product manager on an early-stage product team.
- Experience with real-time or social product capabilities such as messaging, presence, notifications, activity feeds, groups, identity, discovery, or recommendations.
- Experience developing product-led growth loops involving invitations, referrals, sharing, re-engagement, community participation, or network effects.
- Advanced experience with SQL, experimentation platforms, data visualization, statistical analysis, or product analytics tools.
- Experience building scalable and localized consumer experiences for diverse international markets.
- Experience working on trust and safety, privacy, moderation, parental controls, or other sensitive consumer-platform considerations.
- Experience launching a new consumer product through private testing, beta, soft launch, and broader market release.
Before you apply
- Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees.
About the company
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. It is a dynamic technology company and an entertainment leader.