{"id":3716459,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sony-interactive-entertainment-staff-technical-program-manager-2","title":"Staff Technical Program Manager","company":{"id":51674,"name":"Sony Interactive Entertainment","domain":"sonyinteractive.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sony-interactive-entertainment","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":35,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.543,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":52,"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Mateo, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":206800,"max":310200,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":310200},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T20:02:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T15:13:58Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?\nSony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play - it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.\nJOB PURPOSE:\nThe Technical Program Governance team enables complex technical initiatives across PlayStation engineering organizations by creating clarity, alignment, and disciplined execution across organizational boundaries.\nAs a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will lead large, strategic technical programs that span multiple teams, technologies, and stakeholders. You will translate business and technical objectives into executable plans, bring structure to ambiguity, and ensure risks, dependencies, decisions, and tradeoffs remain visible and actively managed.\nThis role requires a strong technical foundation and the judgment to operate as a trusted partner to engineering and architecture leaders. You will influence without relying on positional authority, select and adapt program approaches to fit the problem, and improve the operating systems that help teams deliver effectively at scale.\n\nEXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:\nEssential\n8+ years of relevant technical program or project management experience, including ownership of complex software or technology initiatives spanning multiple teams or organizations.\nDemonstrated technical fluency across software systems, platforms, architecture, integrations, and engineering practices; able to understand system interactions, ask informed technical questions, and translate technical complexity into program decisions.\nProven ability to lead large strategic programs end to end, from problem definition and planning through execution, delivery, and measurable outcomes.\nStrong independent judgment and problem-solving skills, with experience operating effectively in ambiguous environments where the path forward is not predefined.\nExperience managing cross-team dependencies, technical risks, roadmaps, milestones, requirements, decision points, and delivery tradeoffs across the software development lifecycle.\nAbility to influence senior technical and business leaders, build alignment across competing priorities, and drive decisions without direct authority.\nExperience designing or improving program operating models, governance, planning cadences, metrics, or ways of working that scale beyond a single initiative.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create concise executive narratives while maintaining sufficient technical depth for engineering audiences.\nDemonstrated ability to mentor, coach, or raise the effectiveness of other TPMs and cross-functional partners through reusable practices and knowledge sharing.\nDesirable\nPrior hands-on experience in software engineering, systems engineering, QA, architecture, or another technical discipline.\nExperience supporting platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, cloud, distributed systems, or other complex engineering environments.\nExperience leading standardization, transformation, or organizational change initiatives across multiple technical teams.\nBackground in the games or interactive entertainment industry.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE FOR DECISION MAKING:\nTechnical Program Management\nLead large, strategic technical programs spanning multiple engineering teams, organizations, technologies, or geographies, with accountability for end-to-end outcomes.\nBuild integrated program plans and roadmaps that connect technical requirements, architecture, dependencies, milestones, resources, risks, and decision points.\nDevelop sufficient understanding of system architecture and technical constraints to identify cross-system impacts, challenge assumptions constructively, and improve planning and decision quality.\nPartner closely with engineering leaders, architects, product partners, and other technical stakeholders to translate objectives into clear execution strategies and drive resolution of complex issues.\nAnticipate and actively manage technical and organizational dependencies, surfacing tradeoffs early and driving decisions before they become delivery blockers.\nEstablish clear program health measures and provide decision-quality visibility into progress, risk, scope, and outcomes for senior stakeholders.\nStrategy and Decision Support\nOperate as a trusted partner to senior leaders, using technical context, program data, and organizational knowledge to shape recommendations and execution strategy.\nUse independent judgment to determine the right program methodology, governance, and operating model for the work rather than applying process mechanically.\nAnalyze complex problems across organizations and technologies, identify patterns and root causes, and drive practical solutions that balance technical, business, schedule, and resource considerations.\nStrengthen requirements and major program decisions by connecting business objectives with technical realities, long-term implications, and customer or organizational value.\nCreate clear narratives and recommendations that enable senior leaders to understand options, tradeoffs, risks, and required decisions.\nOrganizational Impact and TPM Practice\nDesign and improve scalable program practices, governance, planning cadences, OKRs/KPIs, and decision mechanisms that increase clarity and execution effectiveness across multiple teams.\nIdentify where existing processes or methodologies create unnecessary friction and adapt or simplify them while preserving appropriate rigor and accountability.\nLead change and standardization efforts where needed, building adoption through stakeholder engagement, practical implementation, and measurable outcomes.\nMentor TPMs and cross-functional partners, share reusable practices, and contribute to stronger technical program management capability across the organization.\nKEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS\nThe individual will be measured on:\nSuccessful delivery of large, complex technical programs with clear business and engineering outcomes.\nQuality and timeliness of decisions, risk management, dependency resolution, and executive visibility.\nEffectiveness in creating alignment across technical teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority.\nMeasurable improvements to program operating models, governance, and organizational execution capability.\nDemonstrated technical credibility, independent judgment, and ability to raise the effectiveness of others.\nAt SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.\nPlease note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. \nIn addition, this role is eligiblefor SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package.Click here to learn more.\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n$206,800—$310,200 USD\nPlease note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.\nPlease refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.\nEqual Opportunity Statement:\nSony 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.\nWe strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. 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