Product Manager (Gaming)

Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; hybrid working policy applies.

Salary: $124,100–$174,100 CAD base pay annually.

Company

hirify.global is the gaming brand of Sony Interactive Entertainment, delivering hardware, network services, and entertainment experiences to players worldwide.

What you will do

• Define product vision, strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and opportunity pipelines for new mobile and web experiences.
• Identify and validate opportunities through user interviews, surveys, behavioural data, market research, competitive analysis, and rapid experimentation.
• Translate user insights, business opportunities, and technical possibilities into product initiatives, requirements, and success criteria.
• Partner with Design, Engineering, and Marketing to deliver products from concept and prototyping through launch, measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Define KPIs, analytics requirements, experiment plans, and measurement frameworks while analyzing acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and conversion.
• Lead cross-functional decisions, resolve trade-offs, manage dependencies and risks, and establish scalable product-development practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience with consumer-facing mobile, web, social, gaming, marketplace, or other digital products.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience taking products, features, or major initiatives from discovery and validation through launch and iteration.
• Strong product-discovery, user-research, analytical, quantitative, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Hands-on experience with product analytics and business-intelligence tools; ability to investigate questions and validate hypotheses using SQL or an equivalent workflow.
• Experience working closely with designers and engineers in an iterative, agile development environment and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience building social, community, communications, network-driven, gaming, mobile-game, or entertainment products.
• Knowledge of player behaviours, gaming culture, online communities, and industry trends.
• Experience with messaging, presence, notifications, activity feeds, groups, identity, discovery, recommendations, or product-led growth loops.
• Experience with experimentation platforms, advanced SQL, data visualization, statistical analysis, trust and safety, privacy, moderation, or parental controls.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup-style product development with the resources and support of Sony Interactive Entertainment.
• Work in a fast-moving, experimental, and ambitious environment focused on meaningful player experiences.
• Hybrid working policy with base pay determined by job-related factors and location.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.
• Equal-opportunity and inclusive workplace.