Senior Technical Program Manager, People Tech (Hybrid)

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Japan); San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager in San Diego. You will lead large, complex technical programs within People Technology Services, acting as a hands-on Scrum Master and coordinating multi‑team delivery in a hybrid work model.

Ideal candidates bring deep Agile, Scrum, and program management expertise, strong executive communication, and the ability to influence across teams without direct authority.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical project or program management leading complex software, platform, integration, or infrastructure initiatives.
• Hands-on Scrum Master for technical teams with recurring sprints and core Scrum ceremonies.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum, backlog readiness, estimation, capacity planning, retrospectives, and coaching.
• Proven ability to lead large, multi‑workstream programs with roadmaps, governance, risks, and delivery.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex technical programs from discovery to closure.
• Establish outcomes, roadmaps, milestones and governance with sponsors.
• Maintain schedules, RAID logs, dependencies, and resource plans.
• Coordinate across Product, Data, Security, HR, Payroll, and vendors.
• Translate progress and risks into concise executive updates and data-backed recommendations.

Skills

Agile / Scrum expertise

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Technical literacy

Jira expertise

Delivery leadership

Tools

Jira

Power BI

Tableau

eazyBI

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager in San Diego. You will lead large, complex technical programs within People Technology Services, acting as a hands-on Scrum Master and coordinating multi‑team delivery in a hybrid work model.

Ideal candidates bring deep Agile, Scrum, and program management expertise, strong executive communication, and the ability to influence across teams without direct authority.