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Principal Technical Program ManagerSony Interactive Entertainment • Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Principal Technical Program Manager

Principal Technical Program Manager

Sony Interactive Entertainment • Los Angeles, CA, United States
7 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn't just the Best Place to Play - it's also the Best Place to Work. Today, we're recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5, PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationPlus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Job Purpose

The Technical Program Governance team manages PlayStation's largest programs and groundbreaking initiatives for engineering organizations. These efforts serve as the foundation for aligning around a core technology strategy and developing a culture of speed, collaboration, and innovation.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will drive delivery of critical work that powers seamless global experiences for players, partners, and the company. This role requires advanced expertise in orchestrating cross-functional execution, engaging senior executives, and ensuring that technical solutions deliver measurable impact.

This is a role for a leader who thrives in high-ambiguity, high-impact environments, bridging technical perspectives to ensure initiatives deliver both execution and adoption success.

Experience and Qualifications

Essential

  • Extensive experience leading large-scale, multi-year technical initiatives with deep complexity across systems, orgs, and geographies.
  • Proven track record driving complete transformation, ensuring adoption, behavioral change, and operational integration are embedded in delivery plans.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives, unify conflicting viewpoints, and steer ambiguous, high-impact efforts.
  • Provide strong technical insight across platforms, systems, and architecture, with the ability to challenge assumptions and guide engineering toward scalable, strategic solutions.
  • Expert in governance, cross-team decision-making, and executive-level communication that clarifies risk, tradeoffs, and strategic value.

Desirable

  • Background in the games industry.
  • Experience crafting program management approaches that incorporate change management and adoption strategies.
  • Experience with PPM software, OnePlan ideal.
  • Key Responsibilities

    Technical Program Leadership

  • Lead delivery of PlayStation's most complex, multi-year engineering initiatives, ensuring they achieve both execution success and full organizational adoption.
  • Serve as an integrator across programs-understanding architecture, dependencies, and system interactions to guide decisions and reduce risk.
  • Partner with technical leads and architects to ensure engineering decisions support scalability, initiative health, and strategic outcomes.
  • Build and maintain dashboards that connect program execution data to executive insight.
  • Define and promote reusable patterns, operating models, and frameworks that improve technical program delivery across engineering.
  • Strategy and Decision Support

  • Collaborate with the Director of Technical Program Governance to establish the strategic direction for technical program management approaches and frameworks.
  • Analyze program data to identify gaps, risk, and opportunities; leading and driving toward balanced solutions and mitigations.
  • Craft executive-level narratives that clearly articulate engineering progress, risk, and business impact in decision-ready formats.
  • Influence prioritization and funding decisions using insight and data-backed rationale.
  • Adoption and Impact

  • Partner with change management leaders to make certain each key initiative features comprehensive readiness, training, enablement, and adoption strategies.
  • Identify organizational friction points early and drive mitigation plans that ensure initiatives land efficiently and sustainably.
  • Ensure technical delivery incorporates clear routes to operationalization, behavioral change, and sustained value realization.
  • Advocate for user-centric adoption outcomes as equal in importance to technical completion.
  • Key Performance Indicators

    The individual will be measured on :

  • Successful delivery of groundbreaking technical initiatives.
  • Acknowledgment of technical program management methods as drivers of innovation and speed.
  • Positive executive engagement and satisfaction with delivery quality.
  • Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Noticefor more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.

    At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role's base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

    Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

    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. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

    The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below. $236,300—$354,500 USD

    Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.

    Please refer to ourCandidate Privacy Noticefor more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.

    Equal Opportunity Statement :

    Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

    We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

    PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

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