Technical Project Manager II

PlayStation Network; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading gaming company is looking for a Technical Project Manager in Berlin to lead multiple development teams and oversee consumer-facing software projects. You'll work collaboratively to define goals, manage schedules, and report on progress while ensuring compliance and quality standards. Candidates should have 5-6 years of Project Management experience, and be proficient in JIRA and Agile methodologies. A dynamic environment is expected with occasional travel required.

Qualifikationen

• 5-6 years of experience in Project Management and the full SDLC.
• Experience in shipping commercial software development projects.
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Aufgaben

• Lead and supervise the tasks of individual teams.
• Coordinate project activities and resolve open issues.
• Report project progress and risks to partners.

Kenntnisse

Project Management

Communication skills

SCRUM/Agile methodologies

Problem-solving

Team leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

JIRA

Jobbeschreibung

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 PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strides 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.

At PlayStation, we’re leading the revolution in cloud gaming as we push the boundaries of what’s possible! Would you like to use your skills, time, and passion on meaningful projects that are building the future? We’re looking for people who want to make a difference, love working with creative, dedicated, and collaborative teammates. If that sounds like something you would love to do, we want to hear from you! Come help us build a world‑class cloud platform capable of delivering fun and unique gaming experiences to millions of players.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will work with our development teams to deliver and deploy consumer‑facing software on a variety of devices. You will be responsible for working with both internal and external teams to define breakthroughs, schedules, and goals, and then supervise the progress of the various projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise the tasks and deliverables of individual teams.
  • This role requires ongoing management of teams across two geographic areas – Berlin, Germany and California.
  • Occasional travel required, attending in‑person workshops or conferences in the US or internationally. Typically once per quarter or less.
• Work with team members to drive projects, coordinate project activities, and resolve open issues.
• May be responsible for individual sub‑components of larger projects.
• Assist with the coordination of projects, gathering requirements, identifying project vision, and developing project schedules.
• Work with engineers, creatives, and management to maintain project schedules and to supervise, influence, and direct progress.
• Report project progress, status, and risks to project partners.
• Work with to handle project risk, develop mitigation plans, and raise decisions & unresolved issues.
• Ensure work is thoroughly tested, meets all compliance requirements, and is efficiently implemented.
• Manage the portfolio of a cross‑functional and geographically distributed team of Business Analysts, Data Engineers, Service Reliability Engineers, and Data Scientists working on data pipelines, data transport, transformation, storage, and analytics.

Requirements

• At least 5-6 years of experience in Project Management and the full SDLC.
• Experience working on and shipping commercial software development projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced environment.
• Proven experience with modern software development methodologies, especially SCRUM/Agile.
• Excellent communication, expectation management, and facilitation skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Expert in JIRA.

Desired Skills and Knowledge:

• SCRUM Master certified, with experience operating and leading SCRUM teams.
• Commercial Software and/or Consumer Electronics experience is a plus.
• Experience in leading infrastructure, platform or enablement programs for internal customers.
• Gaming and start‑up experience is a plus.
• Programming or engineering education or background a plus.
• Experience in managing distributed storage solutions (e.g. Amazon S3, Ceph, Hadoop, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience in big data distributed messaging and processing technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform.

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.