Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
At SIE, we build internal services that serve our partners across PlayStation studios, the PlayStation platform, and much more. We are hiring a Pricing Strategist to drive the creation of our pricing structures, chargeback designs, and our efforts in intelligently valuing our services. You will be a key member of our infrastructure business operations team.
Success in this role will help our greater organization assess the return on investment for our services and better allocate resources in the future that reflect the value our offerings generate.
Responsibilities:
Define pricing strategy for internal services used across the PlayStation organization
Lead market analysis efforts to intimately understand the pricing structures of comparable offerings
Build pricing best practices based on new and existing pricing methodologies that can help guide our processes on internal chargebacks
Conduct pricing research to establish price tolerance, willingness to pay, and value positioning
Continually analyze our pricing based on usage and market changes
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Data Science or Accounting
- 5+ years qualified as a pricing strategist or analyst specifically on an B2B infrastructure product or technical service
- 3+ years of direct hands-on experience designing, scaling, and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure acceptable), including a strong focus on cost optimization, performance, and reliability
- Strong understanding of cloud compute and storage market dynamics, including cost drivers, pricing models, and competitive offerings
- Experience building pricing models for internal services based on consumer research, competitive analysis, and proven pricing principles
- 3+ years of experience using SQL and/or Python to analyze large datasets, generate insights, and inform pricing strategies and business decisions
- Passionate about the games industry and infrastructure for building modern games
At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.
Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.
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.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
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