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Leads production operations across a portfolio of game studios, partnering with development and cross-functional teams to improve alignment, reporting, execution, and operational consistency. The role establishes production frameworks, standardizes workflows, supports leadership forums, translates strategy into actionable plans, and advises teams through ambiguity and change. Success requires strong communication, organization, prioritization, problem-solving, and influence without direct authority.

Coordinates business and studio priorities across game development teams, tracks initiatives and leadership commitments, surfaces risks, and supports executive decision-making. Improves production operations by establishing reporting frameworks, managing studio reviews and leadership forums, and ensuring accurate project information. Documents and standardizes production workflows, identifies efficiency improvements, and partners with central teams to scale best practices across PlayStation Studios.

Lead development and maintenance of character creation, rigging, animation, and simulation tools for game production. Collaborate with artists, engineers, studios, and research teams to prototype workflows, integrate game engines, optimize environments, and apply AI/ML to improve development efficiency. Build and customize internal tools, automate project environments, troubleshoot production issues, document systems, and support varied client pipelines. Participate in internal demonstrations and conferences, with required travel.

Establish and operationalize Finance data governance across Finance and Technology. Define governance models, business glossaries, data inventories, lineage, quality controls, master-data standards, hierarchies, and reconciliation processes. Support SAP, Snowflake, reporting, planning, and analytics data products; facilitate stakeholder workshops; document requirements; manage governance backlogs; and coach data owners and stewards in an ambiguous enterprise environment.

Lead production for major areas of a high-profile game, developing roadmaps, project plans, milestones, staffing strategies, and risk forecasts. Coordinate cross-discipline dependencies, manage scope and prioritization, facilitate Agile ceremonies, track schedules and quality, and provide leadership reporting. Improve production frameworks and planning practices while mentoring other producers. Collaborate with creative, technical, studio, external development, and outsourcing partners throughout the game’s production cycle.

Support and administer IBM Planning Analytics throughout budgeting and forecasting cycles. Troubleshoot user, system, and data issues; manage access, documentation, training, requirements, testing, upgrades, and enhancements. Partner with Finance and technical teams to improve planning processes, automation, reporting, integrations, and data reliability. The role also delivers change requests and supports platform configuration and development.

Lead design, execution, and interpretation of A/B tests and quasi-experiments; apply causal inference methods; partner with product, engineering, and marketing; mentor data scientists; build experimentation frameworks; extract and analyze data using SQL and Python; communicate results to stakeholders.

Lead global finance transformation programs end-to-end: design future operating models, implement ERP/automation/AI initiatives, manage program delivery, drive organizational change, and develop high-performing teams to realize measurable finance improvements.

Lead organizational change for finance transformation initiatives: develop change strategies, stakeholder assessments, communications, training, adoption metrics, readiness dashboards, and playbooks while partnering with Finance, IT, HR, and executives to drive adoption and measurable outcomes.

The Senior Product Analyst will oversee product analytics projects, collaborating with teams to develop KPIs, conduct A/B testing, and provide data-driven insights to enhance decision-making.