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Principal Technical Program Manager

4 years ago

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Principal Technical Program Manager

San Francisco, CA

We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to help build a structured way for us to tackle critical problems across our product development teams at PlayStation and to drive continuous improvement of our development processes. You will be expected to partner with various multi-functional leaders and teams to help diagnose the root cause of challenges in the product development process and come up with solutions.

Responsibilities:

Lead and instill a sense of urgency for software experiences and process improvements to meet and exceed customer requirements
Fix challenges in delivering critical initiatives and bring them back on track
Be a key contributor in the planning and delivery of software spanning multiple development teams in multiple global locations
Promote a culture of success, pride, performance, discipline, and creativity.
Drive program schedules, technical roadmaps, technical trade-offs, and manage overall schedule progress
Introduce, develop and lead best practices in software engineering, remove obstacles and help the team achieve outstanding results
Be able to coordinate plans and schedules with different program practices – Agile, Kanban, waterfall and SAFe
Cultivate relationships across departments and groups in order to fully understand and address organizational needs
Effectively works across organization boundaries, collaborating to ensure delivery of awesome customer capabilities.
Identify and improve cross-team gaps in processes and communication to ensure the successful end to end delivery of functionality at the team level, across organizational divides, and geo-locations.
Cultivate, build and measure agile engineering capabilities and quality engineering practices including critical metrics to ensure optimal ROI.

Qualifications

7+ years of experience in software program management/leadership
3+ years of experience in software engineering
Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and release processes
Experience in agile software development methodologies and principles
Meticulous attention to detail and has the ability to make good, timely decisions
Interpersonal skills, including the ability to collaborate across multiple teams, multiple time zones, and with multidisciplinary team members
Scrum Master certification, SAFe certification, Prince2 certification or 3+ years of Agile methodologies practices
Requires proficiency with Project Management and communication tools, such as Confluence, Google Suite, SharePoint, etc.
Experience as a software engineer or equivalent
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
Games/Entertainment industry experience highly desirable
R&D experience highly desirable

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information 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.

We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.

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