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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support payment, subscription, and risk experiences within Sony Engagement Platform Services (SEPS) for PlayStation's direct-to-consumer business. This role involves using statistics, machine learning, and experimentation to help teams optimize player payment and subscription processes globally.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-impact data science initiatives across payments, subscriptions, commerce, fraud, risk, and player experience, translating ambiguous business needs into analytical strategies.
- Define experimental, causal-inference, statistical-modeling, and machine-learning approaches for complex decisions with broad business impact.
- Develop scalable models, measurement frameworks, and reusable analytical capabilities while setting standards for rigor, validation, and reproducibility.
- Influence product and business roadmaps by advising senior stakeholders on opportunities, risks, investment tradeoffs, and expected outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership through mentorship, peer review, methodology development, and cross-functional guidance without direct people-management responsibility.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in data science, applied statistics, machine learning, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced SQL and Python skills with deep expertise in experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, machine learning, and model evaluation.
- Demonstrated success leading complex data science initiatives from problem framing through operationalization and impact measurement.
- Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and elevate data science practices across teams.
Skills
- Experimentation
- Causal inference
- Statistical modeling
- Machine learning
- Model evaluation
- SQL
- Python
- Payments
- Subscriptions
- Digital commerce
- Fintech
- Gaming
- Media
- Marketplaces
- Scaled consumer technology
- Payment optimization
- Subscription analytics
- Forecasting
- Segmentation
- Churn
- Retention
- Customer lifetime value
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Spark
- BigQuery
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree in a quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 to $205,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits
- Fertility benefits, including, surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs
- Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children
- Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
- Short-term & long-term disability plans
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental and caregiver leave
- 401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options and company match with immediate vesting
- Education assistance and student loan programs
- Vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release), and a winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day (based on business needs)
- Referral bonuses (subject to eligibility)
- Matching gift program
- A wide variety of employee business resource groups (EBRGs)
- Special discounts on Sony products
- Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through after-tax payroll deductions)
About the Company
- Sony Engagement Platform Services (SEPS) is building the next-generation platform that powers how fans connect with content and creators across Sony’s entertainment ecosystem.
- Our mission is to unlock meaningful, data-driven engagement across games, anime, music, film, and live experiences, empowering internal teams and external partners to build at scale.
- We aim to create a world-class engagement platform that enhances existing revenue streams and drives new opportunities through a robust ecosystem of partners and creators.
- By decoupling application development from platform services, we enable teams to deliver exceptional solutions with agility and efficiency.
- We are committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for you to thrive as part of Sony’s purpose to “fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology.”
Equal Opportunity
- SCA will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
- Sony Corporation of America provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures.