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Sony Interactive Entertainment

PlayStation hardware, network services, and games

Strategy Analyst - Creator and Market Intelligence (CMI)

Corporate StrategyUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience advancing business strategy, product strategy, market-analysis, or user-analysis projects in corporate strategy or business planning, or an equivalent environment including a professional services firm.
  • Strong analytical ability to derive business and product insights through market analysis, competitor analysis, financial analysis, and business-case evaluation.
  • Ability to turn analyses and insights into clear storylines and understandable materials that support leadership and product managers in decision-making.
  • Ability to advance multiple topics in parallel while collaborating with stakeholders including product managers, Finance, Consumer Insights, user experience research, and hardware operations.
  • Ability to structure issues, form hypotheses, gather and validate necessary information, and advance ambiguous business or product topics.
  • High-level communication skills in Japanese and English.

Responsibilities

  • Explore future PlayStation product opportunities under the CMI Manager and provide strategic analysis and insights to help product management and product-planning teams make better new-product decisions based on market potential, business viability, and user value.
  • Analyze market trends, the competitive environment, business models, and sales and profitability assumptions, and provide evidence and insights for product decisions.
  • Work with related teams including Finance, Consumer Insights, user experience research, and hardware operations; integrate user research, insights, and financial data into implications for product planning.
  • Structure issues, assumptions, and options for ambiguous new-product themes and planning questions to advance product management and product-planning teams’ consideration.
  • Prepare decision-support materials for product management, product-planning teams, and leadership using clear storylines and understandable visuals.
  • Build knowledge on market, business, and user perspectives for new-product planning, and contribute to systems that enable the CMI team to support product management and product-planning teams more consistently.

Desired Qualifications

  • Practical experience using English in a business setting.
  • Experience with data analysis, financial analysis, business-case evaluation, and modeling using Excel.
  • Experience preparing materials for executives and leadership using PowerPoint.
  • Ability to communicate with overseas stakeholders by email, review materials, and participate in meetings in English.

About the Company

Sony Interactive Entertainment

PlayStation hardware, network services, and games

PlayStation is a division that develops and operates PlayStation hardware, software, and online services for a global audience. Its products include consoles, games from PlayStation Studios, and the PlayStation Network, which enables digital purchases, online multiplayer, and cloud saves. A PlayStation console plays games from discs or downloads, connects to PSN for online features, and uses digital stores to access a library of games from first- and third-party partners. The goal is to provide borderless, high-quality entertainment and grow the PlayStation ecosystem by tightly integrating devices, services, and exclusive content.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
San Mateo, CA
Founded
1994

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