Senior Director, Global Communications

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership & Organizational Leadership - Serve as a key advisor and operating partner to the VP, Global Communications, helping define team priorities, communications strategy, and resource allocation.
• Translate senior leadership vision and evolving business priorities into clear communications plans, organizational priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Act as a senior decisionmaker on communications issues that require judgment, speed, and coordination across studios, product teams, business leadership, executive leadership, and global markets.
• Drive operational rigor across the communications organization, ensuring clear prioritization, accountability, and alignment across a growing and increasingly complex portfolio of work.
• Identify gaps in capability, capacity, and expertise as the business evolves, and build the structures and processes needed to meet those demands.
• Help shape the long-term evolution of the Software Communications team through organizational planning, capability development, succession planning, and continuous improvement.
• Global Communications Leadership - Actively contribute to the development and execution of integrated global communications strategies, designed in partnership with Senior Communications Leadership, that advance PlayStation’s product, game, studio, and brand priorities.
• Shape compelling narratives that elevate the PlayStation Studios portfolio, PlayStation hardware and services, and the broader brand across gaming, entertainment, technology, and culture.
• Ensure consistent storytelling across products, games, studios, creators, and corporate priorities.
• Partner closely with Senior Communications Leadership to ensure strategic alignment across software and product communications and communications readiness for launches, business milestones, partnerships, reputational issues, and emerging risks.

Requirements

• 18+ years of experience in communications, with significant experience in senior leadership roles.
• Experience leading large, global, matrixed communications teams in a complex, fast-paced organization.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing teams through operational excellence, talent development, and organizational change.
• Strong track record leading communications for major product, software, or entertainment launches.
• Significant experience managing sensitive issues, reputational challenges, and high-profile communications situations.
• Deep relationships with top-tier media and demonstrated ability to engage credibly with senior journalists and industry influencers.
• Experience serving as a senior communications leader and trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, as well as experience working closely with entertainment properties, creative teams, or game studios (preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to operate with both strategic vision and operational discipline.
• Experience managing budgets, agencies, and complex cross-functional stakeholders.
• Familiarity with digital tools, analytics, and emerging technologies, including AI applications in communications.

Preferred

• Experience serving as a senior communications leader and trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, as well as experience working closely with entertainment properties, creative teams, or game studios (preferred).

Benefits

• 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.