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Title: Senior Portfolio Strategist
Level: P4
Team: Portfolio Strategy – PlayStation Studios / Studio Business Group (SBG)
Location: San Mateo Preferred, Open to Remote
Senior Portfolio Strategist - Role Description:
As a Senior Portfolio Strategist, you will lead the evaluation of our current and future portfolio of games, guide our gaming investment decisions across genres and business models, and recommend to senior leadership the right portfolio composition that optimizes risk versus return. You will direct the efforts of our portfolio allocation modeling team, spearhead deep analyses on where to invest our capital in gaming now and in the future, and communicate data-driven analyses and insights to executives across our studios and in the PlayStation Studios organization.
Responsibilities:
Take the lead in assessing and providing perspective on our portfolio of games across IP, genres, business models, and risk levels to make sure it is optimized for growth and diversification
Outline and direct critical analyses on the gaming market, our competitive position, changing consumer behavior, and technological trends to advise our senior leaders on the future of gaming
Be a trusted confidant to our senior executives and guide their decision-making about our current portfolio performance vs future opportunities, including where to invest going forward
Set the direction for and lead our portfolio model-building team across multiple iterations of our efforts to ensure our games portfolio meets its investment goals while balancing risk and return
Independently initiate, plan, and lead strategic projects across high-impact topics that may or may not be on the radar of our top leaders already, like new business models for game development
Proactively and critically advise our studio and production executives on the portfolio fit and economic potential of their game development plans and creative multi-year aspirations
Qualifications:
6+ years of relevant experience, optimally in strategy/product in the gaming industry or management/strategy consulting
Profound understanding of the gaming industry and broader market knowledge of the media and entertainment space from working experience
Strong sense of ownership and a talent for proactively initiating tasks and independently seeing them through to completion
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adjust your style to match different seniority levels
Excellent financial modeling skills and in-depth experience with mathematical models and statistical techniques
Exceptional in creating work product-focused materials/outputs, including PowerPoint decks and Excel models
Equal Opportunity Statement:
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