Senior/Staff Data Scientist – Measurement and Experimentation

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>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.</p></div><p><strong>Role Overview:</strong></p> <p>As a <strong>Staff Data Scientist</strong>, you will lead innovation in experimentation and causal inference, helping shape the future of decision-making and product innovation at SIE. You will drive innovative research in experimentation methodologies while mentoring other team members. You’ll be responsible for elevating our experimentation strategy, fostering a culture of curiosity and rigor, and helping cross-functional teams deliver player-first experiences through strong evidence-based decisions.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Be Doing:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drive innovation in experimentation research by shaping measurement frameworks and best practices, and by developing new methodologies that enhance the quality, speed, and scalability of experiments.</li> <li>Advance experimentation infrastructure and tooling, incorporating statistical and machine learning methods to refine analytical capabilities.</li> <li>Mentor and guide less-senior data scientists, building expertise in experimentation and causal inference while providing technical direction to ensure rigor and impact.</li> <li>Partner with product managers and business leaders to identify high-impact experimentation opportunities and align them with PlayStation’s strategic goals.</li> <li>Act as a thought leader in experimentation and causal inference, evangelizing best practices and fostering learning across teams.</li> <li>Contribute to research and prototyping of novel experimentation techniques that address complex real-world challenges, such as user behavior variability and data limitations.</li> <li>Champion a data-driven culture by establishing experimentation standards, ethical practices, and reproducibility</li> <li>Represent the team’s insights and innovations across the broader data science and product communities within PlayStation.</li> <li>Stay at the forefront of the field by monitoring emerging developments in experimentat