Sr. Director, Strategic Development

PlayStation Global•San Mateo, CA

2d•$275,000 - $412,400

About The Position

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is seeking a senior leader to help guide its business evolution, identify future growth opportunities, and build the organizational capabilities needed to make, activate, and adapt strategic decisions continuously. Working within the Business Strategy team and alongside senior leaders across PlayStation, this role will establish frameworks, decision mechanisms, and leadership practices that connect long-range strategy to organizational alignment, experimentation, and measurable business outcomes. The Senior Director will translate PlayStation’s strategic direction into actionable enterprise priorities, help operationalize strategic shifts, and partner with functional executives to define choices, commitments, and outcomes. The role will develop a year-round strategy operating rhythm that links three-to-five-year ambitions with annual priorities, quarterly reviews, and ongoing opportunity assessment. It will also help leadership anticipate market and technology changes, evaluate portfolios, revisit investment assumptions, and adapt priorities based on evidence. As a trusted partner to senior leaders, the role will facilitate complex strategic discussions, influence decisions without relying on formal authority, and support coordinated action across business units. It will develop differentiated approaches for optimizing the core business and exploring future opportunities, including portfolio investment frameworks and criteria for advancing, redirecting, or discontinuing initiatives. The role will strengthen strategy execution through practical tools, leadership commitments, decision rights, progress measures, and AI-enabled research and analysis capabilities.

Requirements

15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise strategy, business transformation, corporate development, strategic operations, or product leadership.
Substantial experience influencing senior executives within complex global organizations.
Proven record leading enterprise-wide strategic transformation, with tangible examples of changes adopted by business leaders and sustained beyond the initial initiative.
Deep experience influencing cross-functional leadership teams amid ambiguous authority, competing priorities, and significant organizational complexity.
Demonstrated success designing and implementing strategic planning, portfolio management, or governance frameworks that improved business decisions.
Strong commercial and financial judgment, including the ability to evaluate investment trade-offs, growth opportunities, and long-range enterprise value.
Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, and strategic storytelling capabilities.
Experience navigating global organizations and multicultural leadership environments.
Demonstrated ability to use emerging AI and analytical capabilities to improve strategic effectiveness.

Nice To Haves

Experience in technology platforms, gaming, digital entertainment, consumer ecosystems, or similarly dynamic industries.

Responsibilities

Translate PlayStation’s long-range strategic direction into actionable enterprise priorities linked to existing strengths and future growth opportunities.
Help operationalize strategic shifts, including developing new value propositions, adapting business models, and moving from periodic planning to continuous strategic adaptation.
Establish frameworks for determining what SIE should preserve, evolve, and develop over the next three to five years.
Partner with functional executives to translate enterprise strategy into organizational choices, commitments, and measurable outcomes.
Identify structural, cultural, and operational barriers to transformation and help leadership teams address them.
Embed strategy with cross-functional leaders so they can own and adapt it as assumptions change.
Build a year-round strategy capability that responds to market shifts, emerging technologies, competition, and organizational learning.
Design and implement a continuous strategy operating rhythm connecting multi-year ambitions with annual priorities, quarterly reviews, and ongoing opportunity assessment.
Develop scenario-planning, strategic-sensing, and portfolio-evaluation frameworks to help leadership anticipate change.
Connect insights from product, commercial, finance, technology, studios, and external partners into an evolving view of PlayStation’s future.
Prepare decision-oriented materials and orchestrate executive forums to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, and recommend strategic adjustments.
Create mechanisms for leaders to revisit investment assumptions and reallocate attention and resources as evidence changes.
Build trusted relationships with VP- and SVP-level leaders across PlayStation and Sony Group.
Facilitate high-stakes strategic conversations involving competing priorities, resource constraints, and differing perspectives.
Use analysis, commercial judgment, and compelling narratives to influence decisions without formal authority.
Help executive teams move from conceptual agreement to explicit decisions, accountable ownership, and coordinated action.
Constructively challenge established assumptions while respecting existing businesses and their operational realities.
Identify and resolve strategic misalignment before it impedes execution.
Develop differentiated frameworks for core-business optimization and higher-uncertainty exploration initiatives.
Help define how future opportunities are identified, validated, incubated, prioritized, and transitioned into scaled businesses.
Partner with Finance and operating leaders on portfolio-level investment frameworks balancing near-term returns with longer-term strategic value.
Create transparent criteria for advancing, redirecting, or discontinuing strategic initiatives.
Ensure exploration activities are commercially grounded without applying inappropriate mature-business expectations to early-stage opportunities.
Support decisions about shared capabilities, resources, and partnerships that can accelerate core and exploration operating models.
Develop strategy activation frameworks, including strategic outcome maps, decision rights, leadership commitments, and progress measures.
Partner with team members to translate strategic choices into functional priorities without unnecessary reporting or bureaucracy.
Facilitate leadership working sessions that resolve trade-offs and establish durable ownership of agreed outcomes.
Build strategy toolkits and practical methodologies that functional teams can use independently.
Capture and institutionalize lessons from strategic initiatives, including successes, unsuccessful experiments, and changing market assumptions.
Introduce AI-enabled research, synthesis, scenario modeling, and knowledge-management capabilities to improve the speed and quality of strategic work.