Sr. Product Manager, Core Experience
Sony Interactive Entertainment
United States, San Mateo · USA-CA-San Mateo · USD 168,900-253,300 · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 5, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- United States, San Mateo · USA-CA-San Mateo
- Salary
- USD 168,900-253,300 · Base salary
About the role
- This role is focused on leading core, user-facing and backend system software initiatives which are critical to the success of the PlayStation platform.
- The ideal candidate can work with multiple international teams to define the customer experience, workflows, and important metrics & features to support this foundational part of our business.
Responsibilities
- Lead User Experience for PlayStation platform core experience features, products and services, by developing requirements working with stakeholders across the global business
- Maintain and communicate the roadmap for the products
- Prioritize features based on product strategy and global business objectives
- Ensure features are backed by important metrics and that success is measured on a regular basis
- Act as Voice of Customer (VoC) to create the strategic vision for platform features
- Understand and communicate how your product is used in market, based on customer feedback, research and data, feeding back into future requirements and product roadmap
- Understand and communicate the competitive landscape as it affects PlayStation
- Articulate business and consumer rationale to the teams building the product
- Work closely with design teams to design experience that are usable, feasible, viable, and consistent as Platform
- Work closely with engineering teams to ensure we build the right product and ship it at the right time
Requirements
- 5+ years experience as a Product Manager
- Self-motivated, outcome-driven and proactive
- Innovativeness while collaborating on new products, solutions, and features
- Ability to travel domestic and international when safely able to do so (-15%)
- Passion for games and gaming industry trends
- Experience in building and shipping technical consumer products
- Proven experience managing complex product areas with multiple organizational stakeholders
- Strong ability to facilitate cross-functional communication and decision-making balancing customer needs, business priorities, and technical feasibility in a fast-paced development environment
- Comfortable making critical product decisions in collaboration with senior leadership
- High ownership and persistence
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Atlassian software suite (JIRA/Confluence)
- Familiarity with telework meetings and tools
- Experience shipping at least 3 consumer electronics product or features
- Experience in Gaming industry
- Experience working with international teams
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- matching 401(k)
- paid time off
- wellness program
- employee discounts for Sony products
Workplace
- This position follows a hybrid work model, combining remote work with in-office collaboration.
- Occasional onsite presence is expected for key activities such as team building, collaborative sessions, and workshops.
Skills
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Agile
- Scrum