Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

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Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

Do you want to lead a team building advanced decision systems that directly shape monetisation strategies across the PlayStation ecosystem? Are you passionate about combining machine learning and operational research to solve complex, high-impact business problems at scale? We are building systems that power decisions across a global catalogue of games, including base pricing across lifecycle stages of a game, while balancing revenue growth, player experience, and cannibalisation across titles.

We are looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a hybrid team of Machine Learning engineers and Operations Research experts. You will work on high-impact, executive-visible initiatives, partnering closely with Product, Business, and Engineering teams to translate complex, ambiguous problems into scalable, production-ready systems.

What You’ll Do

Lead and grow a team of machine learning engineers and optimisation specialists, fostering collaboration across disciplines and raising the bar for technical excellence.

Build a high-performing, inclusive team by:

• Coaching and developing engineers across ML and OR disciplines

• Providing clear feedback, career growth, and performance management

• Hiring and retaining top talent

Improve large-scale optimisation systems that:

• Incorporate predictive signals from machine learning models (e.g., demand forecasting, item elasticity).

• Leverage optimisation frameworks using Gurobi to make decision recommendations under known business constraints.

Partner closely with Product, Business, and regional stakeholders to:

• Translate business goals and constraints into optimisation frameworks.

• Align on tradeoffs between short-term performance and long-term strategy.

• Resolve conflicting priorities through data-driven decision-making.

Ensure systems are explainable, trustworthy, and actionable by:

• Providing clear reasoning behind model-recommended decisions.

• Enabling debugging and traceability across ML and optimisation components.

• Driving adoption with business and product stakeholders.

You Bring:

• Deep understanding of the relevant ML and OR domains and infrastructure with a track record of delivering complex ML and OR systems into production.

• Proven strong experience leading and developing high-performing ML and OR teams, including: Growing engineers across different skill sets (Machine Learning, ML Infra, Operational Research); Driving career growth and performance evaluation; Hiring and retaining high-performing teams.

• Demonstrated ability to create a strong team culture with high accountability, creativity and continuous improvement.

• Ability to provide technical direction at the architecture level while fostering pragmatic, high-quality, high-velocity execution.

• Demonstrated success driving cross-functional initiatives that require influencing without direct authority, in fast-moving environments

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operational Research

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with tools such as Gurobi, Snowflake, Databricks, and PySpark.

• Experience in pricing, promotions or marketplace optimisation.

• Experience in modelling demand elasticity and forecasting.

• Experience in the gaming or digital content industry.

• Experience working with globally distributed functions and teams.

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