Manager, Data Science, Payments & Subscriptions
Core
Lead a data science team to improve payment acceptance, subscription recovery, and lifecycle experiences for PlayStation's digital business.
Role type
Senior IC data science manager (payments & subscriptions)
Builds
Payment and subscription optimization strategies, experiment designs, and measurement frameworks for D2C commerce.
Domain
Gaming / Digital Commerce / Payments
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Data science leadership, experimentation design, causal inference, metric design, SQL, Python, stakeholder management, team hiring and development
Preferred skills
Digital commerce, payments, subscriptions, billing, lifecycle analytics, gaming, media, experimentation platforms, AI-assisted analytical workflows
Technologies
SQL, Python
Responsibilities
Lead, hire, onboard, and develop a team of data scientists; Own the team's roadmap, intake, prioritization, and capacity planning; Partner with business and technical leaders to define decisions and success metrics; Guide experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, and modeling work; Review experiment designs, analytical code, data quality, and model assumptions; Coach data scientists to strengthen scientific judgment and stakeholder influence; Set practical standards for reproducible analysis and documentation.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management

