Program Manager

Overview

Play Station isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

Play Station also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Staff Program Manager (Contract) — San Diego, CA

Come join Sony Interactive Entertainment as a Staff Program Manager leading Play Station Platform initiatives! This role will be responsible for driving programs and projects from inception through deployment over a worldwide scale to deliver amazing customer benefits. The candidate will partner with a globally distributed cross-functional team (product management, design, product engineering, business operations, marketing, consumer support, legal, finance) to ensure product and operational readiness for market delivery.

How you’ll lead:

• Drive program roadmap, strategic decision making and delivery plan for large cross-functional team across all phases of planning from concept to in-market launch
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and management of multiple worldwide business partners to ensure alignment with objectives, find common ground and promote diverse thinking and viewpoints for program success
• Effectively and clearly communicate program information to various levels across organizational boundaries, including senior leadership
• Proactively identify critical issues and dependencies that need action and drive them to closure, while balancing business needs and technical constraints
• Influence at all levels and build strong partnerships across organizations to deliver the optimal outcome of complex programs
• Utilize knowledge to enhance current processes, identify areas for improvement, and guide the implementation of those improvements

What you’ll bring:

• 10+ years of experience working in a program/project management capacity for large-scale business systems and/or complex software development initiatives from kick-off to market delivery
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle, Design/System Thinking, Agile frameworks, preferably Scrum and Kanban, and Program Management Methodologies to implement the right practice for the programs
• Effective leadership to prioritize assignments to meet required deadlines, craft action and program plans, identify gaps and risks to put in place mitigating factors and communication plans
• Critical thinking to identify all related pieces of the program, how they fit together and can solve routine and complicated problems effectively
• Outstanding communication skills for executive-level audiences, presenting program objectives, strategic outcomes, escalations and relevant success criteria for timely decisions and issue resolution
• Collaborate effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team
• Excellent conflict resolution, negotiation, and people management skills while bringing clarity, calmness and process to ambiguous, high-pressure situations
• Expert level experience with JIRA and ability to build custom dashboards to measure progress and risks
• Experience in mentoring junior team members and contributing to the continued improvement of the program management organization

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