Data Center Strategy & Commercial Management Specialist

PlayStation Global•Austin, TX

4d•$184,500 - $276,700

About The Position

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Data Center Strategy & Commercial Management Specialist within the Technical Operations department of the Global Developer Future Technology Group (GDFT). The group builds and operates the data center infrastructure supporting PlayStation’s Cloud Gaming, Broadcast, and Developer Platform services worldwide. The role supports the evolution of SIE’s global colocation footprint, which hosts workloads including real-time game streaming, content distribution, developer build systems, and testing environments. The specialist leads strategic planning, commercial management, and capacity management for SIE’s global colocation estate. The role translates business growth forecasts into colocation capacity, power, and infrastructure strategies across existing and future sites, balancing availability, resilience, performance, and cost objectives. It combines commercial leadership, provider management, infrastructure planning, and technical coordination across a complex global environment. Although this is not a facilities operations role, it requires technical literacy in colocation infrastructure, including mechanical and electrical resiliency models, power and cooling constraints, and operational dependencies, to inform commercial, contractual, and strategic decisions.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in colocation strategy, data center commercial management, infrastructure sourcing, capacity planning, or related disciplines in large-scale global environments.
Demonstrated experience leading commercial negotiations with colocation providers, including renewals, capacity expansions, pricing negotiations, SLAs, and contractual commitments.
Strong understanding of colocation commercial constructs, including leases, service orders, SLAs, power commitments, contractual obligations, and provider governance models.
Experience managing colocation provider relationships across multiple regions and understanding market dynamics, supplier capabilities, and commercial models.
Strong understanding of colocation infrastructure, including power, cooling, resiliency, and capacity constraints, and the ability to connect technical considerations to commercial and business outcomes.
Experience translating business or deployment forecasts into actionable infrastructure capacity, power, and space strategies.
Experience supporting colocation sourcing, including provider evaluations, market analysis, commercial assessments, expansion planning, and capacity negotiations.
Experience evaluating colocation commercial proposals, pricing structures, service offerings, and contractual terms to support infrastructure and capacity decisions.
Strong analytical and organizational skills, including the ability to manage complex datasets, contractual obligations, lifecycle milestones, and regional planning assumptions across a global footprint.
Experience developing governance processes, KPI frameworks, and executive-level reporting for infrastructure, commercial, or capacity management functions.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical, operational, financial, legal, procurement, and business stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with comfort working in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment.
Ability to operate at strategic and tactical levels, balancing long-term infrastructure strategy with day-to-day commercial and operational priorities.

Responsibilities

Translate business growth forecasts and platform requirements into short-, mid-, and long-term colocation capacity strategies across existing and future sites, considering scalability, resiliency, performance, and regional demand.
Own the commercial strategy and lifecycle of SIE’s global colocation footprint, including renewals, expansions, exits, commercial obligations, and strategic capacity planning across providers and regions.
Lead commercial negotiations with colocation providers for renewals, expansions, new capacity acquisitions, and related agreements, partnering with legal and procurement teams.
Develop and manage strategic colocation provider relationships, overseeing contractual obligations, service delivery, commercial commitments, escalations, and operational performance.
Partner with operations, engineering, product, and business intelligence teams to translate deployment forecasts into power, space, and capacity requirements across the global estate.
Support colocation sourcing activities, including market assessments, provider evaluations, regional capacity analysis, commercial benchmarking, and expansion planning.
Manage contract governance, service-level oversight, commercial risk, and compliance across the global provider ecosystem.
Conduct commercial analysis, provider benchmarking, market comparisons, and assessments of pricing, terms, and service offerings to support sourcing and capacity decisions.
Oversee commercial and operational milestones, including lease events, capacity commitments, renewals, expansions, migrations, and decommissioning.
Define, monitor, and report operational and commercial KPIs to promote accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Develop reporting and governance frameworks that provide visibility into capacity, commercial exposure, provider performance, risk, and strategic opportunities.
Monitor colocation market trends, regional supply, pricing movements, provider capabilities, and industry developments to support strategic decisions.
Align infrastructure planning and commercial decisions with environmental, sustainability, regulatory, and compliance requirements across global regions.
Provide infrastructure and commercial recommendations when business forecasts are evolving or incomplete, balancing growth, risk, timing, and cost.