Studio IT Manager

4 Weeks ago • 7 Years + • Operations • $154,600 PA - $231,800 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Studio IT Manager at Santa Monica Studio leads a team providing IT solutions for game development and the PlayStation Studios Motion Capture Stage. Responsibilities include managing IT infrastructure, client technologies (Mac and Windows), coordinating with other SIE and Sony IT teams, developing yearly budgets, and ensuring exceptional customer service. The role requires strong technical skills, leadership abilities, and experience in a creative development environment. The manager will oversee staff performance, handle problem-solving, and maintain strong communication with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring secure and efficient IT operations.
Must have:
  • Lead Studio IT team
  • Manage IT infrastructure
  • Client tech expertise (Mac/Windows)
  • Budget planning & management
  • Exceptional customer service
  • Strong communication & leadership
Good to have:
  • Linux experience
  • Networking & storage management
Perks:
  • Top-tier benefits package (medical, dental, vision, 401k matching)
  • 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.

Join the award-winning team that created God of War

Santa Monica Studio is seeking a Studio IT Manager!

This role involves delivering innovative information technology services for both Santa Monica Studio and the PlayStation Studios Motion Capture Stage. Under the direction of the IT Director, the Studio IT Manager will lead a team consisting of skills ranging from support specialist through senior level Systems Administrators, providing all levels of support and engineering for both workstation and infrastructure.

You and your team will deliver tailored IT solutions that support the development of extraordinary award-winning titles that PlayStation Studios are known for. While your main focus is the delivery of studio specific technical solutions, you will work in collaboration with other supporting IT teams within SIE and Sony to coordinate the successful delivery of non-studio specific IT solutions meeting studio needs and expectations.

Studio IT prides itself in customer service and views building and maintaining support relationships with internal business teams, promoting trust, setting expectations, and achieving mastery in customer service as fundamental to its success.

Well-versed in a wide range of client technologies, you are responsible not only for the implementation, maintenance, and highest level of performance-tuning for client technology, but also for being a champion for strong working relationships directly with the people who apply that technology. You are also highly conscientious to meeting customer needs in a quick and agile manner while also ensuring that solutions provided are delivered as safely and securely as possible.

The Studio IT manager is responsible for the coordination and management of all IT functions on-site to include collaboration with other Studio IT teams and other supporting IT teams within SIE and Sony. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing yearly budget plans in coordination with the Director of IT and for handling spend towards budgetary expectations.

The ideal candidate must possess strong social skills, a good balance of technical and management experience including a complete understanding of computers and network operations in a creative/development environment.

Responsibilities

  • Leading the Studio IT team in providing solutions and services in support of title development and delivery of title services.

  • Identify staffing needs and hiring staff as appropriate

  • Adapts to changes in the work environment; handles contending demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events

  • Gather and analyze metrics to benchmark workload, performance, and identifies trends

  • Communicate results with management and staff

  • Maintain a high level of customer service by prioritizing issues and communicating appropriately with external and internal customers

  • Develop cross-team and cross-departmental expertise vital to effectively respond to issues

  • Perform periodic review and evaluation of all employees, handling performance issues, training requirements, as fundamental for the development of individual resources as a team

  • Ensure teams maintain a high level of responsiveness, communication, professionalism, and overall technical knowledge and intuition for business

  • Run, monitor, and report on the services and service levels required to support and deliver an exceptional support experience to customers

  • Maintain technical leadership and ensure the support staff is appropriately skilled and trained to deliver excellent technical support and customer service

  • Establish working schedules, manage time off to ensure appropriate coverage for operating workloads and task allocations in accordance with studio needs

  • Represent the interests of the studio when assessing risk and impact of any change the site depends on

  • Perform additional tasks as deemed vital, to include hands on support as necessary

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; or 7+ years of equivalent experience

  • Knowledgeable in the utilization of ITIL Process Framework principles and possess a technical background working in a classified environment that includes experience in solving problems connectivity issues, hardware and software support, hands-on and remote support

  • Experience with Mac and Windows based Operating Systemx

  • Superb communication skills and being fluent in English, both written and verbal

  • Strong analytical abilities, critical thinking skills, and attention to detail

  • Solid understanding of troubleshooting and problem analysis procedures; ability to resolve problems quickly and efficiently

  • Strong, hands-on and flexible leadership skills with a dedication to getting results

  • Ability to explain sophisticated technical solutions and concepts to non-technical decision-makers

  • Ability to lead staff and projects and delegate responsibilities appropriately

  • Coordinates among other teams to ensure continuity of support to global customers

  • Handles communications with customers and other IT or business groups

  • Champion innovation and creativity, diversity and inclusion, collaboration and communication

  • Review and update IT support processes and appropriately maintain IT documentation

  • Ability to multitask and efficiently handle complicated issues

  • Availability to work off-hours and weekends as needed to meet studio needs during high priority periods

  • May require travel to other company offices (10%)

Preferred Experience

  • Experience with Linux

  • Networking and storage management 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.

$154,600 - $231,800 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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About The Company

Our studio is composed of a group of diverse, ambitious, highly collaborative creatives who empower one another, while working as a team to deliver high quality narrative-driven PlayStation experiences. With origins spanning the globe - from Brazil to Poland to small town USA, we are home to over 250 world class developers who strive to push the medium forward with every creative decision.


Every team has a story and, at the heart of our story, we are committed to greatness and steadfast in our craft of developing unforgettable in-game experiences that inspire our players. Beyond that, though, we are driven by something much larger…by a desire to develop “stories” of greatness for each and every team member. Making a game is a massive undertaking. Between QA, Art, Design, Programming, Production, Sound and every department in between, we are all responsible for connecting with each other's greatest skills, while working towards a common vision.


Together, we sow seeds of possibility. Whether you are an intern or an industry veteran, creativity rules here. At our studio we recognize that great ideas can come from anyone. Traversing a new mythological world on a boat. A single camera shot for an entire game. A powerful recalling axe. A companion AI known as “boy” fighting like a god. These are just some of the bold ideas that were not simply lit by an individual light bulb...they were forged from idea, to paper, to code in a collaborative effort by creatives of all disciplines on a journey to reinvent a franchise.

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