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PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.
PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.
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Our team is looking for a Data Scientist to help us understand and improve our Personalisation platform at PlayStation. We are on a mission to deliver world-class Personalised experiences across the PlayStation Network, and we need your help to support our data-driven approach, run robust experiments, and surface key insights from our user data. If you are curious, analytical, and love digging into data, we want you on our team.
What you'll be doing:
- Support analytical work across our Personalisation program, helping evaluate how users engage with our personalised experiences.
- Partner with senior data scientists, engineers, and product managers to design and evaluate A/B tests and other experiments.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to understand how our systems work and provide input on how to develop our products with a data-first approach
- Participate in the development of experimentation plans, making sure we have quality data which leads to useful results
- Help analyse and interpret experiment results, turning complex findings into clear summaries and business insights.
- Assist with creation of dashboards, reports, and visualizations that support ongoing learning and decision-making.
- Work with data teams across the company to ensure we have the right data and tools to support personalisation analytics.
What we are looking for:
- A degree, or equivalent experience, in Statistics, Computer or Data Science, Mathematics, Analytics, or similar
- 2-3+ years in a role providing data analytics, business intelligence, data science, or similar.
- Hands-on experience supporting experiments or A/B testing in a product environment.
- Proficiency in SQL for data extraction and working with large datasets.
- Working knowledge of Python, R, or similar languages for data analysis.
- Experience with data visualisation tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar.
- Ability to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A curious mindset and passion for learning about user behaviour and data.
- Familiarity with e-commerce or personalization systems is a plus
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.
