Technical Account Manager II

1 Month ago • All levels • Account Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Technical Account Manager II at PlayStation will ensure game development partners have the best experience on PlayStation platforms. They will represent the technical aspects of PlayStation, advocate for partners, and influence game development decisions. Responsibilities include leading partner relationships, bridging technical and business aspects, identifying project risks, building relationships with technical decision-makers, maintaining ownership of accounts, collecting partner feedback, promoting standard methodologies, providing onsite support, and contributing to training events. Candidates must have engineering experience with game SDKs, understanding of development pipelines, excellent communication skills, and be able to work with little supervision. Proficiency in English and Korean or Japanese is required.
Must have:
  • Engineering experience with game SDKs.
  • Understanding of game development pipelines.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to quickly familiarize with technical projects.
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Willingness to travel and coordinate with others.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency in English and Korean or Japanese.
Good to have:
  • Technical knowledge of the PlayStation platform.
  • Direct console game development experience.
  • Familiarity with globally distributed groups.
  • English language skills.

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 Group Corporation.

Technical Account Manager

PlayStation has an exciting career opportunity. We seek a Technical Account Manager II to ensure that our game development partners have the best possible experience while developing on PlayStation platforms.

Represent technical aspects of PlayStation, advocate for partners, and influence game development decisions.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead partner relationships and collaborate with other groups around the world to build consistency in our approach to service.
  • Bridge the technical and business aspects of development by partnering internally with our Global Developer Technology Group (GDTG) engineers and business account management teams.
  • Meet regularly with your assigned accounts/partners to proactively identify project risks, support needs, and opportunities.
  • Build long-term collaborative relationships with technical decision-makers and influencers.
  • Maintain strong ownership of the accounts & titles you work on, prioritizing and helping to ensure resolution of all issues as they arise.
  • Collect partner feedback and champion that within PlayStation.
  • Recommend and promote standard methodologies to licensed partners.
  • Provide onsite support and training.
  • Contribute to training events, postmortems, and advisory panels.

Skills and Qualifications:

Required:

  • Engineering experience with hands-on exposure to game SDKs and ability to understand their content.
  • Understanding of general development pipelines for games.
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills with an eye toward providing excellent customer support.
  • Familiarity with development tools and ability to quickly familiarize with new deeply technical projects in development.
  • The ability to operate with little to no supervision at partner sites, providing a professional and useful service to our partners.
  • Willing to travel and coordinate with leverage technical expertise in other groups to tackle issues at hand. When not able to directly or efficiently tackle partner problems, identify technical expertise needed to tackle the problems.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in the industry.
  • Proficiency in English and Korean or Japanese languages.

Preferred:

  • Technical knowledge of the PlayStation platform.
  • Direct console game development experience, i.e., contributed to the launch of a console title in a technical capacity.
  • Familiar with working with a globally distributed group.
  • English language skills are a plus.
  • Experience working with external partners.

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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