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Sony Interactive Entertainment · 13 hours ago

Principal Technical Program Manager

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$236K/yr - $354K/yr

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a global leader in entertainment known for producing the PlayStation family of products and services. The Principal Technical Program Manager will drive delivery of critical engineering initiatives, ensuring seamless global experiences for players and partners while engaging with senior executives and managing complex technical solutions.

Consumer GoodsMusicVideo Games

Work & Life Balance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

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

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

Qualification

Technical program managementCross-functional executionExecutive-level communicationChange managementPPM softwareGames industry experienceBehavioral changeOrganizational adoption

Required

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

Preferred

Background in the games industry

Experience crafting program management approaches that incorporate change management and adoption strategies

Experience with PPM software, OnePlan ideal

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Matching 401(k)

Paid time off

Wellness program

Coveted employee discounts for Sony products

Bonus package

Company

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment is responsible for the PlayStation brand and family of products and services.

Founded in 1993

San Mateo, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.sie.com

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