Staff Technical Program Leader - Strategy & Execution

PlayStation; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead large, strategic technical programs that span multiple teams and geographies. You will translate business and technical objectives into executable plans and manage risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to ensure successful delivery.

The role requires a strong technical foundation, the ability to influence leaders without direct authority, and the skill to adapt program approaches to fit the problem.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical program or project management experience leading complex software or technology initiatives across multiple teams or organizations.
• Fluency across software systems, architectures, integrations, and engineering practices; translate technical complexity into program decisions.
• Proven ability to lead large strategic programs end to end from problem definition to measurable outcomes.
• Strong judgment and problem-solving in ambiguous environments with no predefined path.
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies, risks, roadmaps, milestones, requirements, and tradeoffs across the SDLC.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and align competing priorities without direct authority.
• Experience designing or improving scalable program operating models, governance, and cadence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for executive audiences with technical depth.
• Proven ability to mentor and elevate TPMs and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, strategic technical programs spanning multiple teams, organizations, technologies, or geographies with end-to-end accountability.
• Build integrated plans and roadmaps connecting requirements, architecture, dependencies, milestones, resources, risks, and decisions.
• Develop understanding of system architecture to identify cross-system impacts and improve decision quality.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, architects, and product partners to translate objectives into execution strategies.
• Anticipate and manage dependencies and tradeoffs to prevent delivery blockers.
• Establish program health metrics and provide visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes for executives.

Skills

Technical PM

Software systems fluency

End-to-end delivery

Ambiguity management

Cross-team dependencies

Executive influence

Program governance

Mentoring TPMs

Technical leadership

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead large, strategic technical programs that span multiple teams and geographies. You will translate business and technical objectives into executable plans and manage risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to ensure successful delivery.

The role requires a strong technical foundation, the ability to influence leaders without direct authority, and the skill to adapt program approaches to fit the problem.