Sr. Director, Strategic Development

Location: United States, San Mateo, CA Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. Senior Director, Strategic Development Position Overview Sony Interactive Entertainment is entering an important new chapter in its evolution looking to expand business and identify future growth opportunities. This is a senior leadership position for an individual who combines exceptional strategic judgment with the ability to activate change across complex, highly accomplished organizations. The successful candidate will help SIE move beyond strategy as an annual planning exercise toward a continuous discipline of strategic choices, organizational alignment, experimentation, and measurable business outcomes. Working directly within the Business Strategy team alongside senior leaders across PlayStation, this individual will build the frameworks, decision mechanisms, and leadership practices that enable executives to own the outcomes of the company's strategic evolution. The central purpose of this role is not simply to develop strategy. It is to help the organization become better at continuously making, activating, and adapting strategic decisions. Key Responsibilities Activate PlayStation's Strategic Transformation Translate PlayStation's long-range strategic direction into clear, actionable enterprise priorities that connect the company's existing strengths with future growth opportunities. Help operationalize the strategic shifts defining PlayStation's evolution, including developing new value propositions, driving business model adaptation to new customers and opportunities and moving from periodic planning to continuous strategic adaptation. Establish practical frameworks that clarify what SIE must preserve, evolve, and newly develop over the next three to five years. Partner with functional executives to translate enterprise strategy into meaningful choices, commitments, and measurable outcomes within their organizations. Identify structural, cultural, and operational barriers to transformation and help leadership teams address them. Activate the strategy by embedding it within cross functional leaders to own it and adapt it as assumptions change. Establish Continuous Strategic Planning and Adaptation Build a strategy capability that operates throughout the year, responding to market shifts, emerging technologies, competitive developments, and organizational learning. Design and implement a continuous strategy operating rhythm, connecting three-to-five-year ambitions with annual priorities, quarterly strategic reviews, and ongoing opportunity assessment. Develop scenario-planning, strategic sensing, and portfolio-evaluation frameworks that allow leadership to anticipate change rather than simply respond to it. Connect insights from product, commercial, finance, technology, studios, and external partners into an evolving view of PlayStation's future. Create the right level of materials for decision-oriented executive forums and then orchestrate those important meetings to find emerging opportunities, challenge assumptions, and recommend adjustments to strategic priorities. Build mechanisms for leaders to revisit investment assumptions and reallocate attention and resources as evidence changes. Influence and Mobilize Cross-Functional Executive Leadership Serve as a trusted strategic partner to senior leaders, bringing together different perspectives and enabling collective decisions on issues that transcend individual business units. 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 on the future. Use rigorous analysis (both internal and external), commercial judgment, and compelling narratives to influence decisions without relying on formal authority. Help executive teams move from conceptual agreement to explicit decisions, accountable ownership, and coordinated action. Challenge established assumptions constructively while demonstrating respect for the achievements and operational realities of existing businesses. Identify and resolve strategic misalignment before it becomes an impediment to execution. Develop the Core / Explore Strategic Framework Support the development of two distinct but interconnected operating models that allow PlayStation to maximize current business performance while investing in future opportunities. Establish differentiated frameworks for evaluating core-business optimization and higher-uncertainty exploration initiatives. Help define how future opportunities are identified, validated, incubated, prioritized, and transitioned into scaled operating businesses. Partner with Finance and operating leaders to develop portfolio-level investment frameworks that balance near-term returns with longer-term strategic value. Create transparent decision criteria for advancing, redirecting, or discontinuing strategic initiatives. Ensure exploration activities are commercially grounded without subjecting early-stage opportunities to inappropriate mature-business performance expectations. Support leadership in determining where shared capabilities, resources, and partnerships can accelerate both operating systems. Strengthen Enterprise Strategy Execution and Organizational Capability Create repeatable approaches that allow SIE leaders to turn strategic direction into coordinated organizational progress. Develop executive-level strategy activation frameworks, including strategic outcome maps, decision rights, leadership commitments, and progress measures. Partner with team members to create processes for translating strategic choices into functional priorities without creating unnecessary reporting or bureaucracy. Facilitate leadership working sessions that resolve trade-offs and create durable ownership of agreed outcomes. Build strategy toolkits and practical methodologies that functional teams can adopt 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 that increase the speed and quality of strategic work. Required Experience and Qualifications The ideal candidate will bring 15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise strategy, business transformation, corporate development, strategic operations, or product leadership, including substantial experience influencing senior executives within complex global organizations. A proven record of 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, particularly in situations involving ambiguous authority, competing priorities, and significant organizational complexity. Demonstrated success designing and implementing strategic planning, portfolio management, or governance frameworks that improved actual business decisions. Experience in technology platforms, gaming, digital entertainment, consumer ecosystems, or similarly dynamic industries. 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. At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location. Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more. The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below. $275,000 — $412,400 USD Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. Equal Opportunity Statement: Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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