Product Marketing Manager

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Product Marketing Manager Platform Innovation and Brand Strategy

San Mateo CA (hybrid)

Role overview:

Your role on this team is to help to drive global product marketing for a selection of peripherals products partnering deeply with product management for the entire product/feature life cycle from concept through development to launch and postlaunch customer journey optimization. As the marketing expert on the product and audience you will work closely with various marketing and commercial teams agencies and partners on gotomarket development and launch for PlayStation peripherals and features.

Responsibilities:

• 5 years experience driving successful product launches from initial product marketing strategy and through to product announcement
• Champion the voice of the customer with marketing and product teams developed from insights and analytics across the business before during and after launch
• Influence product development from an enduser and overall market prospective
• Help craft the product marketing strategy positioning and reasonstobelieve for peripherals
• Define the opportunity audience and support manager in work with the commercial teams to support forecast strategy
• Work closely with creative teams to develop packaging key art videos iconography copy and more in support of the GTM
• Collaborate with consumer insights teams to develop and utilize research results that will enrich the impact of projects
• Work with web teams to launch maintain and update highly effective web content and landing experiences using data to drive design that can be optimized and evolved over time
• Partner with Store Services and Brand teams to deliver an evergreen CEM approach with email teams to effectively reach and drive engagement with PlayStation customers at key points in their product ownership
• Communicate with excellence about upcoming features by working closely with the PlayStation PR Team and Product Team.
• Reach out cross functionally to other areas in SIE to help tell a holistic platform story that connects the console to services peripherals 1p software 3p software global partnerships events and more.

Skills and Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelors degree in marketing or related field or equivalent experience required
• MBA a plus

Experience

Marketing Leadership Experience

• 57 years related experience ideally in gaming entertainment or tech
• Experience delivering objectives through influence with partner teams in consumer facing global organizations with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Highly skilled at managing multiple projects in a highly dynamic and fluid environment.
• Proactive and demonstrated ability to appropriate assess businesscritical decisions of diverse scope and drive to solutions
• Maintain strict confidentiality with privileged information work well with others and handle a highpressure environment.

Strong Cultural Leadership Traits

• Work towards results. Commitment to high standards and passionate about goals/ beliefs in the face of complex obstacles/roadblocks.
• Collaboration and inclusion skills: Work productively & cooperatively within the group and across business units/functions to form deep and trusted relationships to achieve common goals high emotional intelligence cultural awareness
• Innovative problem solver: Views challenges as opportunities solution oriented creative problem solver for each project and is willing to champion new ideas with their manager and partners
• Works independently with little need for instruction but maintains communication with leaders and leaders peers to ensure partner teams feel informed and supported
• Selfstarter: Brings passion energy enthusiasm to get results and affect meaningful change
• Excellent prioritization and multitasking skills with an ability to work in a fastpaced environment with proficiency and professionalism

Other Skills

• Fluent in English with exceptional verbal and written communication skills; proficiency in additional language(s) is a plus
• Intermediate Microsoft Office Skills (Word Excel PowerPoint)

Bonus:

• PlayStation fan
• Strong familiarity with and passion for modern console gaming digital gaming ecosystems and gaming culture.
• Familiarity with PC and Mobile Gaming

This role involves close collaboration with teams based in London California Tokyo and Australia. As a result flexibility is required for calls that may occur during early or late hours due to time zone differences.

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.