PlayStation Is Hiring A Senior Director For PC Planning And Strategy

thegamer.com:

PlayStation is looking to hire a Senior Director for PC Planning and Strategy according to a recent job listing. The move is in keeping with speculation about an expansion of its investment in the PC market. This comes in the wake of news that Horizon Zero Dawn and God of War have been extremely successful on the platform. The former came out in August, 2020 and the latter was released in January, 2022.

“The successful candidate will be responsible for the strategy and commercial activity within global channel sales and will deliver a single, optimized PC sales growth and commercial plan to hub and territory teams to implement,” the job listing states. “Identifying future sectors and partnerships for commercial growth, the plan should support the delivery of the agreed global channel sales critical metrics.”

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Responsibilities for the position include building “global commercial PC partner opportunities” and managing “sales execution though global PC store fronts” like Epic and Steam. The successful candidate will “identify promotional and incremental sales opportunities via data-driven insights and develop go-to-market plans in partnership with Marketing.”

Sony notes how “the candidate will need to be flexible and open to evolving roles and responsibilities aligned to the changing needs of this business unit as it grows and expands.” The job listing seems to suggest that PlayStation will be making further inroads into the PC market over the course of the coming years. This implication has led many to sepculate that exclusives including Ghost of Tsushima and Bloodborne could be coming to the platform at some point in the near future.

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