About the Role

The Senior Director, Sound leads the creative, technical, and strategic vision for sound, dialogue and talent casting across PlayStation Studios globally. This leader sets the standard for world-class audio experiences, guiding teams and collaborating with internal studios and external partners to deliver groundbreaking, emotionally resonant sound for PlayStation’s portfolio of AAA titles.

As the global head of the sound function, the Senior Director partners with studio leadership, technology groups, and executive management to drive innovation, quality, and alignment with PlayStation Studios’ creative and strategic goals.

Why Join Us

At PlayStation Studios, you’ll help define the future of sound in interactive entertainment. Collaborating with award-winning teams across the globe, you will influence the sonic identity of world-class titles while shaping the next generation of immersive PlayStation audio experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Direction

• Establish and drive global sound direction and creative vision that aligns with PlayStation Studios.

• Partner directly with executive and senior leadership to align sound strategy with overall PlayStation Studios goals.

• Partner with Studio and Audio Directors to ensure the quality of sound across studios, ensuring world-class consistency.

• Define and champion long-term initiatives that enhance creative and technical excellence globally.

Creative Design & Implementation

• Drive Audio best practices across all PlayStation Studios titles.

• Lead research and development initiatives with internal teams, hardware partners, and external vendors.

• Oversee implementation pipelines and raise overall sound quality and performance standards.

• Present innovation and technology recommendations to executive leadership.

Tools, Technology & Asset Management

• Partner with various technology groups to define and guide PlayStation Studios’ global sound technical roadmap.

• Direct investment in new tools and technologies impacting audio creation and delivery.

• Develop new approaches to tracking, analyzing, and improving audio production workflows.

• Ensure all sound content meets or exceeds the PlayStation Studios quality bar.

Recording & Audio Capture

• Maintain strong global relationships with external recording and production partners.

• Own PlayStation Studios standards and processes for audio acquisition and recording.

Communication & Collaboration

• Lead global communication efforts for the sound department.

• Represent PlayStation Studios’ sound innovations through conferences, PR, and industry forums.

• Partner with leadership to maintain consistent and transparent communication across regions.

• Cultivate collaboration and knowledge sharing across all sound teams and development partners.

Process & Strategic Planning

• Monitor and forecast global sound team resources, staffing, and budgets to ensure the organization is both sustainable and future ready.

• Translate executive decisions into regional or studio-level action plans.

• Collaborate to enhance production processes, improve efficiency, and strengthen cross-studio coordination.

• Oversee budgeting, scheduling, and headcount allocation globally to maintain a responsive and efficient organization.

Innovation

• Lead global sound innovation initiatives and foster creative experimentation.

• Regularly benchmark and research emerging industry practices and technologies.

• Encourage risk-taking and creative excellence within the sound and technology teams.

Talent Acquisition & Performance Management

• Oversee headcount planning and talent strategy for the global sound department.

• Participate in senior recruiting and key leadership interviews.

• Define global workforce and succession plans for the sound function.

• Build a culture of performance, development, and mentorship across the organization.

• Serve as a model for coaching, feedback, and professional growth.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of audio leadership experience within AAA game development.

• Minimum of 6 shipped AAA games in a senior sound leadership role.

• Proven record of managing, mentoring, and inspiring high-performing sound teams.

• Deep expertise in interactive audio, post-production, and advanced authoring tools (Wwise, FMOD, or proprietary engines).

• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary development workflows (animation, level design, AI, physics, mechanics).

• Exceptional executive communication, presentation, and organizational leadership skills.

• History of delivering innovative, high-quality sound experiences under tight time constraints.

• Collaborative, visionary leader with a passion for pushing audio boundaries in gaming.

Role overview:

Our team, PlayStation Studios' International Production & Localisation (IPL), is looking for a Senior Manager to lead our global Production and Localisation QA teams and drive excellence and innovation in the services we offer!

We partner with PlayStation Studios and external development teams, providing best-in-class localisation, production and LQA solutions that enable them to deliver outstanding games to a global audience!

Reporting into the Senior Director, International Production & Localisation, you will play an integral part in finding opportunities to drive innovation, increase operational efficiency, and further develop our core expertise in all aspects of localisation production, localisation QA, and international publishing. You will lead two critical functions - Production and LQA – driving seamless collaboration and shared excellence across teams.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead IPL’s global Production and Localisation QA teams, ensuring they deliver high-quality work on time and on budget while achieving personal and departmental growth
• Build strong partnerships across PlayStation Studios, working closely with game creators to ensure their goals and needs are met
• Oversee multiple simultaneous projects, refining production processes and LQA methodologies whilst identifying dependencies, trade-offs and resolving risks
• Define excellence for localisation production and LQA services, establishing best practices and driving innovation across both functions, particularly around emerging technologies and automation
• Cultivate a high-performing, collaborative team culture with a focus on continuous improvement, upskilling, and shared learning
• Navigate organisational change as we evolve our services and capabilities, making strategic decisions to ensure alignment with business goals
• Contribute to key planning processes including budgets and operating plans, managing resource allocation and analysing data to identify optimisation opportunities
• Work across PlayStation Studios and SIE to understand needs, coordinate R&D efforts, and spearhead initiatives that strengthen our capabilities and support long-term strategic goals
• Foster cross-functional knowledge sharing, building mechanisms that drive transparency and collaboration across teams and studios
• Develop and promote the team's cultural pillars and departmental initiatives that reinforce what makes IPL a great team

What we are looking for:

• 10+ years' experience in games production or development roles with a successful track record delivering AAA titles
• Strong knowledge of both localisation production and QA, with understanding of current industry trends, emerging technologies, and automation in both subject areas
• Deep understanding of game development lifecycle, production methodologies, best practices and tools across multiple genres, platforms and business models
• Experience integrating new teams or functions into existing organisations and leading through organisational change
• Experience successfully leading, motivating and developing diverse, high performing teams across different cultures and time zones
• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively across all levels of the organisation
• Strong project management skills with ability to prioritise and manage complex operational issues across multiple projects and partners
• Curiosity and aptitude for evaluating and adopting new technologies, with strong desire to optimise processes and drive continuous improvement
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting as conditions change in fast-paced environments
• Passion for games with extensive knowledge of the gaming market and good commercial acumen
• Experience managing external development projects and/or working on live service titles advantageous 

Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus opportunity
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Scheme
• 25 days holiday per year
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• Free soft drinks
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers

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. 

Role overview:

Reporting to the group Technical Director, the Audio Programmer will provide tool development and technical system design & implementation for PlayStation Studios audio tools and technology department. Working across an array of PlayStation Studios interactive titles, the role will involve game code, middleware and plugin development along with offline tool development. It will also mean interfacing with multiple teams such as R&D, platform, game teams, QA and more across the globe.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Design of audio tools for sound design and music team.
• Process tools to drive automated build systems.
• Audio processing plugins for audio engines.
• Linking of game systems to audio engine.
• Linking game system authoring tools to sound design tools.
• Complex new audio engine features.
• Driving the planning, documenting and implementing all relevant audio systems in collaboration with other members of the audio programming team.
• Supporting the sound design and music production team in tooling requests and game debugging.
• Ensure code developed runs in an efficient manner and is bug free.
• Debugging code such that it is release ready.
• Providing packaged releases of audio systems.
• Taking responsibility of overall audio tech delivery on a shipping game title.
• Updating and maintenance of audio middleware

What we are looking for:

• Minimum 3 Years production experience and 1 shipped title on console/PC
• Passionate about audio and video games
• Strong experience in C++ and object orientated/data oriented design
• Experience in C# .NET and WPF
• Strong knowledge of 3D mathematics
• Knowledge of acoustics and digital signal processing
• Experience of audio production software: Pro Tools, Sound Forge, Reaper.
• Experience of Visual Studio or other development environments

Desired:

• Knowledge of streaming systems and multithreading
• Experience of VST development
• Experience of audio middleware (FMOD, Wwise)
• Experience of graphical patching environments (PD, MAX/MSP, Reaktor)
• Experience of Unity 3D/Unreal development

Role Overview

As an Associate Manager in PSS QA Engineering Services, you will be a key part of our global leadership team, shaping and delivering exciting services that provide real value to our studios, and contribute meaningfully to the future of PlayStation and the gaming industry.

You will lead our talented, multi-cultural, and engaged ALM Support team, owning the strategic service direction and supporting the team as they develop their skills and reach their full potential.

ALM Support acts as the backbone of PlayStation’s development infrastructure, managing the enterprise ALM systems and workflows (like Jira and TestRail) that allow our studios to track progress, manage quality, and ship world-class games.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leadership of staff in multiple regions as part of the global ALM Support team and wider PlayStation Studios QA Engineering pillar

• Overseeing the technical configuration and health of our global Jira and TestRail instances, ensuring they are optimised to meet the unique needs of our studios

• Responsible for staff recruitment, selection, training, development, and regular performance reviews

• Ongoing coaching and mentoring as required, and recognition of successes

• Ensuring effective and efficient operational service delivery to our studios, using data and service metrics to help the team track our progress, and continually improve the quality of support we provide

• Defining and managing team budgets and resources thoughtfully, using data to ensure a sustainable workload and healthy balance for the team

• Supporting the Engineering leadership team in the creation of plans and strategic approaches to achieve PSS QA and overarching Studio Business Group goals

• Advocating for SIE’s cultural values and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.

• Collaborating with global QA leadership peers to promote knowledge sharing, and cultivate innovation and success within PlayStation Studios QA and its partners

Who You'll Work With

• PlayStation Studios QA leadership

• Studio heads, production teams, and internal studio QA managers

• Internal and external partner test teams and leads

• Sibling teams within the Global Creative, Technology and Services group

Your Background

• Experience in staff development and leadership of a global team in a managerial role

• A solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and all related processes

• Experience owning a technical service both operationally and strategically

• Comfortable managing budgets and planning resources.

• Solid communication - strong business writing, public speaking and presentation, and listening skills.

• Willingness to advocate and lead via SIE cultural leadership values: Communication, Innovation, Collaboration, Inclusion

Beneficial Experience

• Management of a busy technical Service Desk

• A good understanding of quality assurance techniques, and testing methodologies

• Solid gaming industry appreciation and understanding

• Deep PlayStation and other console platform knowledge

• Cross-cultural/global working experience

• Technical/administrative experience of supporting ALM enterprise tools - Jira, Confluence, TestRail, etc - ideally within a Service Desk environment

• Ability to see a task through to completion, on time and to expected quality

Desirable Qualifications

• Formal management and/or project management qualifications

• ITIL Service Management

• Service Desk Management (SDI/SDA)

We recognise that talent comes in many forms. If you’re excited about this role but don’t tick every single box, we’d still love to hear from you!

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build AI-powered tools and integrations that plug directly into game engines, editors, clients, and backend services. You’ll deliver high-quality C++ integrations across proprietary studio engines, ship robust build/QA automation, and partner with multiple PlayStation Studios teams to make AI an everyday part of development.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build and maintain engine/editor plugins, runtime SDKs, and services that integrate AI (LLMs and related systems) into game clients, servers, and build tools.
• Ship performant, memory-aware C++ by profiling, optimizing, and debugging across PC/console builds with tight frame budgets.
• Design stable API surfaces for game teams (C++/C API, gRPC/HTTP) with versioning, telemetry, and backward compatibility.
• Stand up CI/CD for game builds and tools (UBT or proprietary build systems; artifact packaging; nightly/regression suites; distributed/accelerated builds).
• Automate QA for tooling and in-engine features using engine test frameworks and headless runs, and wire results into CI and dashboards.
• Implement production LLM integrations (prompting, RAG/tool calls, guardrails/safety, observability, timeouts/retries, and cost controls).
• Collaborate with studio engineering, tech art, design, and QA to land integrations across varied codebases and pipelines.
• Document patterns, provide sample projects, and deliver internal training so solutions scale across PlayStation Studios.
• Influence standards and tech choices for AI in our dev stack, and contribute to shared libraries and best practices.

Qualifications

• You have at least five years of experience building production software in modern C++ (C++17/20) with strong fundamentals in memory management, concurrency, performance, and debugging.
• You have shipped tools or runtime features in AAA engines, including work on plugins/modules, asset and build pipelines, and editor/runtime integration.
• You have delivered features or tooling that integrate with LLMs or other ML services, and you understand prompt design, evaluation, safety, and telemetry for production usage.
• You have implemented engine-level automated testing (functional and integration), including headless execution and CI gating.
• You work fluently with large code/asset repositories and are comfortable with both Perforce and Git.
• You communicate clearly across disciplines and translate diverse studio requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions.
• You write thorough documentation and favor well-tested, maintainable code.

Nice to Have

• You have built networking/service integrations for game backends (gRPC/HTTP) and implemented telemetry/observability (logs, metrics, traces).
• You have packaged SDKs/plugins for multiple studios and managed semantic versioning and migration tooling.
• You understand console platform requirements and certification workflows.
• You are familiar with security, privacy, and responsible-AI practices in production systems.

Please note; this position can be completed remotely from The UK

At PlayStation Studios, we believe that our people are what make us exceptional. We foster a playfully positive culture and are always seeking new and diverse faces to help us grow. Join us and be a part of a world-class team that crafts outstanding entertainment experiences.

As part of PlayStation Studios, you will have the chance to support the full library of PlayStation Studios, including Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, Polyphony Digital, Guerilla Games, and many more. Collaborate with world-class developers and contribute to the next great PlayStation Studios release.  

 
Associate ALM Support Analyst

The Associate ALM Support Analyst provides a key cornerstone of technical support for PlayStation Studios QA, PlayStation Studios, and its partners. They are responsible for service desk triage, monitoring and ticket resolution duties, as well as tier 1 and 2 ALM tasks, across all supported applications and services. 

Primarily these tools include f our Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as Jira, Confluence, and TestRail, custom in-house developed tools, as well as collaborative enterprise tools such as SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.  

Responsibilities 

Support the business by providing key services to PlayStation Studios, PSS QA, and other Sony entities via: 

Live and Breathe the Service Desk  

• Customer-facing support for first line support requests via our service desk 

• Daily handover of key workload to global peers 

• Curation and maintenance of relevant articles in our knowledge bases 

• Timely updates to customers on issue progress and blockers 

• Escalation of unresolvable issues to senior team members, external team or vendors  

World Class ALM Support 

• Administer and support application lifecycle tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, TestRail) used across multiple teams or studios 

• Configure workflows, automation and integrations 

• Manage user access, vendor onboarding, VPN/IP allowlisting coordination, and project-level permissions Partner with teams to gather requirements and deliver tailored tooling solutions 

• Assistance with testing of system upgrades and application rollouts 

Best of The Rest 

• Aiding lead staff and management by supporting projects and initiatives 

• Exploring service improvement opportunities via ongoing team collaboration 

• Communication via phone, chat, email, face-to-face meetings and onsite visits to customers 

• Participate in weekend overtime via a defined team rota (only if requested by customers) 

• Domestic and international travel may be required  

Requirement 

• Technically Minded 

• Bilingual in English and Japanese 

• Detail-Oriented 

• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills  

Bonus Advantages 

• Software development and testing methodologies, practices and nomenclature - ideally within the gaming industry 

• Experience of managing ALM tools such as Jira and Confluence 

• Experience of working with service desk tools such as Jira ServiceDesk or ZenDesk 

Qualifications & Experience 

• Educated to degree level in relevant discipline, or equivalent experience 

• Familiarity with ITIL best practices and service management principles; ITIL certification is a plus 

• JPLT N5 or above 

Role Overview

As an Associate Manager in PSS QA Engineering Services, you will be a key part of our global leadership team, shaping and delivering exciting services that provide real value to our studios, and contribute meaningfully to the future of PlayStation and the gaming industry.

You will lead our talented, multi-cultural, and engaged ALM Support team, owning the strategic service direction and supporting the team as they develop their skills and reach their full potential.

ALM Support acts as the backbone of PlayStation’s development infrastructure, managing the enterprise ALM systems and workflows (like Jira and TestRail) that allow our studios to track progress, manage quality, and ship world-class games.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leadership of staff in multiple regions as part of the global ALM Support team and wider PlayStation Studios QA Engineering pillar

• Overseeing the technical configuration and health of our global Jira and TestRail instances, ensuring they are optimised to meet the unique needs of our studios

• Responsible for staff recruitment, selection, training, development, and regular performance reviews

• Ongoing coaching and mentoring as required, and recognition of successes

• Ensuring effective and efficient operational service delivery to our studios, using data and service metrics to help the team track our progress, and continually improve the quality of support we provide

• Defining and managing team budgets and resources thoughtfully, using data to ensure a sustainable workload and healthy balance for the team

• Supporting the Engineering leadership team in the creation of plans and strategic approaches to achieve PSS QA and overarching Studio Business Group goals

• Advocating for SIE’s cultural values and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.

• Collaborating with global QA leadership peers to promote knowledge sharing, and cultivate innovation and success within PlayStation Studios QA and its partners

Who You'll Work With

• PlayStation Studios QA leadership

• Studio heads, production teams, and internal studio QA managers

• Internal and external partner test teams and leads

• Sibling teams within the Global Creative, Technology and Services group

Your Background

• Experience in staff development and leadership of a global team in a managerial role

• A solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and all related processes

• Experience owning a technical service both operationally and strategically

• Comfortable managing budgets and planning resources.

• Solid communication - strong business writing, public speaking and presentation, and listening skills.

• Willingness to advocate and lead via SIE cultural leadership values: Communication, Innovation, Collaboration, Inclusion

Beneficial Experience

• Management of a busy technical Service Desk

• A good understanding of quality assurance techniques, and testing methodologies

• Solid gaming industry appreciation and understanding

• Deep PlayStation and other console platform knowledge

• Cross-cultural/global working experience

• Technical/administrative experience of supporting ALM enterprise tools - Jira, Confluence, TestRail, etc - ideally within a Service Desk environment

• Ability to see a task through to completion, on time and to expected quality

Desirable Qualifications

• Formal management and/or project management qualifications

• ITIL Service Management

• Service Desk Management (SDI/SDA)

We recognise that talent comes in many forms. If you’re excited about this role but don’t tick every single box, we’d still love to hear from you!