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Staff Technical Program Manager

San Diego CA

As a Staff Technical Program Manager you will lead multiyear cross organization initiatives that shape PlayStations enterprise IT and information security capabilities. Youll drive clarity from ambiguity establish program strategy and governance orchestrate execution across multiple teams and ensure operational readiness and measurable outcomes. You are comfortable operating with implicit authority influencing at the senior leader level and diving deep into technical tradeoffs with engineers and architects.

You will use modern delivery practices and proven program management techniques (planning dependency mapping risk management metrics) to deliver enterprise scale IT and security programs.

What Youll Be Doing

Program Strategy & Leadership

• Define program charters success metrics (OKRs/KPIs) and phased roadmaps that align to IT & security strategy and enterprise standards.

• Facilitate architectural and design decisions; drive crisp choices among competing priorities and surface tradeoffs to leadership.

• Stand up program governance (cadence RACI decision logs) and create durable mechanisms for crossteam alignment and escalation.

Technical Execution & Delivery

• Lead endtoend delivery across the program lifecycle: initiation/chartering planning execution rollout/transition and benefits realization ensuring quality security privacy and compliance are built in from the start.

• Build integrated schedules; identify and resolve critical path dependencies across service teams (e.g. identity/IAM security engineering/operations compliance networking endpoint management data platforms) and partner organizations.

• Drive risk/issue management with datadriven mitigations; maintain sourceoftruth program plans backlogs and roadmaps.

Stakeholder Communication & Change Management

• Create clear concise executive readouts dashboards and status narratives tailored to audiences from VP/Director to engineering teams.

• Lead crossprogram dependency forums; negotiate scope sequencing and resourcing to protect program outcomes.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal customers and external partners; translate business goals into actionable technical plans.

Continuous Improvement

• Evolve delivery practices and tooling (e.g. Jira/Confluence M365 data dashboards) to increase predictability and throughput.

• Mentor other TPMs and engineers; contribute to TPM community standards playbooks and onboarding.

What Were Looking For

• 10 years of technical program/project management experience delivering largescale enterprise IT security or infrastructure programs and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated leadership of crossorg programs with high ambiguity complex dependencies and executive visibility.

• Proven ability to think strategically prioritize tasks and make sound decisions under pressure.

• Strong technical acumen: ability to discuss system design APIs data flows security/privacy considerations and operational tradeoffs with engineering.

• Expertise with Program and Project management methodologies fundamentals (risk/issue dependency management cost/benefit critical path).

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; proven ability to influence without authority across product engineering security data and operations.

• Track record of delivering programs with measurable outcomes (risk reduction compliance posture MTTD/MTTR control coverage availability/latency user adoption) and of running effective postlaunch improvements.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Prior experience as a program manager software developer or systems/infra engineer.

• Domain experience in enterprise IT and security domains.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) vendor management and information security strategy.

• Experienced in mentoring junior team members and chipping in to the continued improvement of PMO.

• Knowledge of frameworks such as PMI/PMBOK ITIL Lean or relevant certifications (PMP PMIACP CSM) valued but not required.

• Experience with JIRA ability to build custom dashboards and show an understanding of how to manage JIRA as a source of truth.

• Experience working with globally distributed teams; ability to travel for key program milestones.

Reporting Relationship

• Reports to Senior Manager Technical Program Management

Equal Opportunity Statement:

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