Senior Director, IT Support

2 Months ago • 4-8 Years • Operations • $238,600 PA - $358,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Director, IT Support at PlayStation will lead and inspire a globally distributed team, driving strategic IT engagement, implementing global ITSM capabilities, and spearheading AI-driven support solutions. Responsibilities include developing a proactive and predictive support system, modernizing services like the "Walk-Up Desk" and AV/VC technology, partnering with HR on onboarding/offboarding improvements, and owning the ITSM toolset, Service Transition, Knowledge Management, and Hardware/Software Asset Management. This role requires strong technical expertise, data analysis skills, and cross-functional collaboration.
Must have:
  • Extensive experience managing third-party vendors
  • Strong budget management skills
  • Enterprise-scale IT support delivery
  • Developing game-changing ITSM capabilities
  • Experience with emerging technologies
  • Excellent communication & presentation skills
  • Global team management expertise
Good to have:
  • Deep experience with ITSM toolsets (ServiceNow)
  • BS/MS in IT or Information Security
Perks:
  • Top-tier benefits package (medical, dental, vision)
  • Matching 401(k)
  • Paid time off
  • Wellness program
  • Sony product discounts
  • Bonus package (potential)

Job Details

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation 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 PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation 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 PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

At SIE, the IT Service & Support function is critical to enabling smooth business operations, productivity, and a streamlined and frustration-free experience for SIE people. You will be joining a fast-paced, exciting IT team, providing critical support to one of the most recognizable brands in the world!

This is a hands-on leadership role with a unique set of challenges and huge opportunities to develop and mature the operation as it continues to modernize and become more proactive. Your principal responsibilities include developing a strategic approach to IT engagement, implementing global ITSM capabilities, and driving AI enabled, groundbreaking changes to support capabilities, designed to increase data-driven automation and self-service solutions.

This highly collaborative leadership role includes working with a globally distributed team to understand the requirements of our internal customers and deliver flexible solutions to support changing business needs. You have the opportunity to develop AI/ML enabled tooling to assist in making data driven decisions to improve proactive and predictive support. Establishing elevated support capabilities that help optimize engineering functions, will also be a key objective.

Modernizing services such as the "Walk-Up Desk" and AV/VC technology, in support of a hybrid workforce who need outstanding support wherever they are working, demands the implementation of creative and innovative new solutions. And as we partner with our colleagues in HR, on/offboarding process improvements will are a high priority.

Business ownership of the ITSM toolset, Service Transition and Knowledge Management, and Hardware and Software Asset Management will all be responsibilities of this position.

Success in this role requires close partnership with management within Service & Support, leaders across the wider IT organization, and key business functions such as Information Security, Engineering, Human Resources, & Facilities Management.

You will bring extensive technical expertise coupled with a strong people-first focus, excellent data analysis skills and a proven team-building track record. We are looking for a transformational leader with a focus on operational excellence, and passion that is contagious!

Description:

  • Attracts and empowers highly engaged, passionate, diverse, driven talent, leading and inspiring our globally distributed team
  • Visionary leader who maintains an evergreen view of our future state, challenges the status quo, and delivers measurable results against our strategic roadmap
  • Experienced operational leader, driving excellence and continuous improvement
  • Develops strong operational team structure and actively promotes succession planning
  • Actively assumes ownership of new initiatives and showcases steadfast outcomes
  • Prepares and presents comprehensive reports on team performance, using meaningful metrics
  • Energetically, passionately, and successfully works across organizational boundaries, collaborating to deliver ‘outstanding’ support services
  • Creates an environment for teams to innovate, self-improve and implement with urgency and accuracy
  • Strong advocate for workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Demonstrates leadership and expertise by identifying and optimizing automated, proactive, and self-service capabilities to drive efficiencies
  • Participates in roadmap discussions, identifies key areas for improvement in the support space and incorporates these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives

Essentials:

  • Extensive recent experience managing a third-party vendor delivering IT services into an Enterprise environment
  • Strong budget management skills
  • Proven success in delivering successful IT support at an enterprise scale and developing game-changing IT Service Management capabilities
  • Experience in researching new and emerging technologies to realize potential value, business fit, operations, and cost efficiencies
  • Drive and passion for technology leadership with the ability to excite, mentor, develop and empower team members
  • Outstanding verbal/written communication skills with a presentation style that engages and delights up, down and across the organization
  • Effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams

Preferred:

  • Deep technical/business process experience with ITSM toolsets, preferably ServiceNow
  • BS or MS degree in Information Technology or Information Security or equivalent experience

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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.

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.

$238,600 — $358,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

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.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. Today, we continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and game development studios around the world as part of PlayStation Studios, we believe that the power of play is borderless. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.  


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