Product Manager, Parental Controls

Why Play Station?

Play Station isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

Play Station also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Play Station Young Players & Family is on a mission to make the Play Station the best place to play for kids, teens, and the people who care for them. We empower parents with intuitive tools to manage and guide their children’s gaming experiences, build age-appropriate experiences for players of all ages, and ensure compliance with the unique regulatory needs of child-focused products.

As a Product Manager for Parental Controls, you will lead the strategy and roadmap of the Play Station Family app, along with supporting web and console experiences. Your primary objective will be to increase adoption of parental control features and drive measurable business outcomes.

This is a high-impact opportunity to shape mobile and gaming experiences at global scale, with visibility to senior leadership and the chance to define how the next generation of players remember Play Station. Come join us!

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for Play Station’s suite of parental controls across mobile, web, and console experiences
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet global and regional regulatory requirements while balancing customer needs and business growth
• Understand how your product is used in market, based on customer feedback, research and data, driving post-launch iteration to improve adoption and outcomes
• Collaborate with Marketing and PR to help craft clear product messaging that drives customer understanding and adoption
• Communicate product strategy and impact across teams and levels, serving as an ambassador for the Play Station Family app and helping embed it as a core part of the Play Station ecosystem

• 3+ years of experience in product management capacity, preferably on consumer-facing or platform products
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Strong analytical thinking with data and experimentation to validate hypotheses and inform product decisions
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience in product management
• Domain experience in one or more of the following: parental controls, screen time, content moderation and filtering systems, trust & safety tools, global privacy requirements for family- and child-focused products, customer lifecycle management
• Experience running mobile apps, preferably within larger ecosystems, including coordinating end-to-end app release cycles, app store submissions, post-launch monitoring, and UX best practices
• Proven experience driving cross-functional initiatives involving multiple product teams, as well as Legal, Policy, Online Safety, and adjacent partners
• When appropriate, ability to travel to Japan, UK, and other Play Station locations for collaboration with partners and other product/engineering teams

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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. 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,…