Strategic Programs Leader

Sony Interactive Entertainment; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts on Sony products

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Program Manager to drive large, strategic programs across teams and domains. You’ll translate strategy into scalable delivery plans, navigate ambiguity, and deliver measurable business outcomes while mentoring PMs and raising delivery maturity.

You’ll partner with engineering and business leaders to define vision, success metrics, and aligned roadmaps, ensuring cross-functional execution and value realization across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large, high-impact programs across multiple teams, domains, or business functions.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Proven ability to define a program vision and success measures that connect business strategy and scalable delivery.
• Track record of leading through high ambiguity, addressing risks, resolving complex issues, and maintaining stakeholder alignment.
• Technical fluency to partner with engineering leaders, assess architectural risks, validate delivery plans, and accelerate execution without directing solutions.
• Ability to synthesize business outcomes and KPI data to guide prioritization, tradeoffs, and investment decisions.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional leaders to align decisions.
• Experience mentoring program managers and contributing to delivery standards and best practices.
• Proven ability to lead across cultures and regions, navigate varied working and communication styles, and align globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of large, complex programs with significant cross-functional and organizational impact.
• Define program vision, success metrics, and long-range delivery plans aligned to strategic objectives.
• Navigate ambiguity by anticipating risks, resolving systemic issues, and aligning teams and stakeholders.
• Use technical fluency to assess architectural risks, validate timelines, identify acceleration opportunities, and guide delivery tradeoffs.
• Synthesize business, delivery, and KPI data to guide priorities, resource decisions, tradeoffs, and program pivots.
• Improve delivery by simplifying processes, reducing complexity, and scaling proven models across teams and domains.
• Advise senior leaders with clear, data-backed communication on risks, decisions, and recommendations.
• Mentor PMs across levels while strengthening organizational delivery capability and execution discipline.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Technical fluency

Risk assessment

Delivery excellence

Mentoring

Global collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Program Manager to drive large, strategic programs across teams and domains. You’ll translate strategy into scalable delivery plans, navigate ambiguity, and deliver measurable business outcomes while mentoring PMs and raising delivery maturity.

You’ll partner with engineering and business leaders to define vision, success metrics, and aligned roadmaps, ensuring cross-functional execution and value realization across distributed teams.