Product Management Intern, Innovation – MBA or Master’s

November 11, 2024
$40 / year

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Description

About PlayStation

PlayStation is a global leader in entertainment, producing the PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Product Management Intern, Innovation – MBA or Master’s

This is a fully remote position located in the United States.

About the Team:

The Platform Experience Group (PEG) at SIE is dedicated to innovation. This team is exploring new ways to transform and diversify the business into new areas with a focus on new customers needing new solutions. The team values the power of play and is inspired by players and creators of all stripes.

Description:

This role is designed to help a cross-functional team create value for new kinds of customers. The intern will be responsible for taking new opportunities from 0→1.

Key Responsibilities:

• Research and propose new areas of exploration for customer needs and potential solutions within identified strategic themes.
• Synthesize market trends, customer insights, and informed hypotheses into requirements for further research and experiments.
• Contribute to development plans for experiments and prototypes.
• Help identify target customer profiles and segments through synthesis of research insights.
• Identify business opportunities via market sizing, value proposition, and creation of appropriate business models for solutions.
• Collaborate with designers and researchers to establish critical path jobs to be done for target customers of a product solution.

Currently pursuings:

• Pursuing a graduate degree with a business curriculum or entrepreneurial experience, with a projected graduation date of Spring 2026.
• 3+ years of experience in product management—or relevant undergraduate and/or graduate education—with a focus on brand new product development or product incubation highly desired.
• Demonstrated history of creative problem solving and/or creative thinking, evidenced through work, school, or personal projects and experience.
• An ambitious self-starter who deals well with ambiguity, able to be a generalist who can jump in and wear lots of hats to help the team develop an idea from scratch.
• Strong analytical abilities with the ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems using experimentation and data.
• Highly collaborative and adaptable, able to quickly adjust direction based on new learnings or changing circumstances.
• Excellent communicator, able to inspire and excite team members and stakeholders around customer problems and solutions that are non-obvious.
• Solid business sense with basic abilities to quantify an opportunity with imperfect or incomplete information.

Eligibility:

• Able to work during one of the following periods: May 19th – August 8th or June 16th – September 5th.
• Must be available for the entire 12-week internship period.
• Open to students who are U.S. citizens or international students with an F-1 visa.
• Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.

Cover Letter Requirements:

• Please include a cover letter in your application for this role.
• In your cover letter, please address how you would bring a diverse perspective to our innovation activities beyond a love for video games and the PlayStation brand.

Compensation:

• Our intern positions offer a fixed hourly pay rate of $36—$39.75 USD.
• Please note that the pay rate is exclusive to the internship period and may not reflect what pay may look like following the completion of an internship.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

• Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
• We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
• PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.