CareerPlan

Manager, Data Science, Payments & Subscriptions

USA-CA-San Diego-Via EsprilloRemoteFull-time$186k–$279k2026-10-30 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

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