Staff Technical Program Manager

The role

You will lead large, strategic technical programs that span multiple teams, technologies, and stakeholders. You will translate business and technical objectives into executable plans and manage risks, dependencies, and decisions.

What you will do

• Lead large, strategic technical programs spanning multiple engineering teams, organizations, technologies, or geographies.
• Build integrated program plans and roadmaps.
• Develop understanding of system architecture to identify cross-system impacts.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, and product partners to drive resolution of complex issues.
• Anticipate and manage technical and organizational dependencies.
• Establish clear program health measures for senior stakeholders.
• Operate as a trusted partner to senior leaders to shape recommendations and execution strategy.
• Analyze complex problems across organizations and technologies.
• Create narratives and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Design and improve scalable program practices, governance, and planning cadences.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant technical program or project management experience.
• Ownership of complex software or technology initiatives spanning multiple teams or organizations.
• Technical fluency across software systems, platforms, architecture, integrations, and engineering practices.
• Ability to lead large strategic programs end to end.
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies, technical risks, roadmaps, milestones, requirements, decision points, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.
• Experience designing or improving program operating models, governance, planning cadences, metrics, or ways of working.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Prior hands-on experience in software engineering, systems engineering, QA, architecture, or another technical discipline.
• Experience supporting platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, cloud, distributed systems, or other complex engineering environments.
• Experience leading standardization, transformation, or organizational change initiatives across multiple technical teams.
• Background in the games or interactive entertainment industry.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Matching 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Wellness program
• Employee discounts for Sony products
• May be eligible for a bonus package

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage (which may include criminal background checks).

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand and a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is a dynamic technology company and an entertainment leader.