PlayStation needs to evaluate the impact of key initiatives and programs to shape how millions of players experience PlayStation, advance experimentation practices, and ensure data-driven insights inform product development, marketing, and evolution.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in A/B testing and causal inference, including quasi-experimental methods.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
- Broad and applied knowledge of statistical techniques.
- Experience with machine learning modeling is a plus.
- Experience contributing to or developing experimentation frameworks, best practices, or internal tooling.
- Stay current on new methodologies in experimentation and causal analysis, and bring fresh perspectives to the team’s work.
Responsibilities
- Design, execute, and interpret A/B tests and quasi-experiments, and apply advanced causal inference methods when experimentation isn’t feasible.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, marketing) to embed experimentation into development and iteration cycles and communicate results with the company’s senior leadership.
- Mentor and guide other Data Scientists, providing thought leadership and technical direction.
- Serve as a thought leader on best practices for hypothesis development, metric selection, test structure, and results communication.
- Help define and contribute to centralized experimentation frameworks, tools, and documentation to scale best practices across the company.
- Independently extract, transform, and analyze data from complex systems using SQL, Python, and other analytics tools.
- Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping drive business decisions with rigor and clarity.
Other
- Master’s or PhD in Statistics, Economics, or Econometrics.
- 6+ years of experience in a data science experimentation/causal inference-focused role (4+ with PhD).
- Proven ability to influence product and business decisions through clear, actionable insights.
- Bonus: Passion for video games, player communities, or the gaming industry.
- Hybrid work model.
