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Performance Optimization Manager (Growth Marketing)
San Mateo, CA / Hybrid
The PlayStation Store & Services Marketing team is responsible for marketing our flagship PlayStation Plus subscription service, and PlayStation’s multi-billion-dollar D2C businesses (PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct).
This role is a pivotal role in the team accountable for the strategic implementation of performance focused marketing, dedicated to supporting profitable business growth & successful customer outcomes by harvesting incremental demand & driving recurring relationships
Responsibilities:
- Strategy: support in producing a clear marketing strategy aligned with commercial goals, whilst collaborating with other marketing function to ensure its successful execution.
- Media Planning: Working with media teams to ensure there is a clearly defined media plan for any store & services paid media activity including media allocation (mix/channel/markets).
- Budgeting/Forecasting: Help translate strategies into detailed annual, quarterly & monthly budgets (split by product/service campaigns & regions).
- Reporting: Analyze, track, report and forecast on key performance metrics, identifying areas of opportunity for program performance across all marketing channels to support company’s growth targets and drive future strategies.
- Measurement; help partnering with the Finance, Data Science, and Analytics teams to develop a measurement stack to monitor and improve channel performance & evolve marketing attribution and incrementality.
- Experimentation; Support building and defining a clear experimentation agenda & roadmap across store and services, ensuring tests are linked to business goals & commercial plans.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years in performance or growth marketing roles preferably across the entrainment vertical
- A history of successfully operating in sophisticated global organizations and being able to influence growth
- Have worked in roles leading large media budgets
- Strong collaboration and relationship skills
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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.
$123,700—$185,500 USD
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