Principal Technical Program Manager

Why PlayStation

PlayStation isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Today were recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5 PlayStation4 PlayStationVR PlayStationPlus acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios and more.

PlayStation 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.

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Job Purpose

The Technical Program Governance team manages PlayStations largest programs and groundbreaking initiatives for engineering organizations. These efforts serve as the foundation for aligning around a core technology strategy and developing a culture of speed collaboration and innovation.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager you will drive delivery of critical work that powers seamless global experiences for players partners and the company. This role requires advanced expertise in orchestrating cross-functional execution engaging senior executives and ensuring that technical solutions deliver measurable impact.

This is a role for a leader who thrives in high-ambiguity high-impact environments bridging technical perspectives to ensure initiatives deliver both execution and adoption success.

Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• Extensive experience leading large-scale multi-year technical initiatives with deep complexity across systems orgs and geographies.
• Proven track record driving complete transformation ensuring adoption behavioral change and operational integration are embedded in delivery plans.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives unify conflicting viewpoints and steer ambiguous high-impact efforts.
• Provide strong technical insight across platforms systems and architecture with the ability to challenge assumptions and guide engineering toward scalable strategic solutions.
• Expert in governance cross-team decision-making and executive-level communication that clarifies risk tradeoffs and strategic value.

Desirable

• Background in the games industry.
• Experience crafting program management approaches that incorporate change management and adoption strategies.
• Experience with PPM software OnePlan ideal.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Program Leadership

• Lead delivery of PlayStations most complex multi-year engineering initiatives ensuring they achieve both execution success and full organizational adoption.
• Serve as an integrator across programsunderstanding architecture dependencies and system interactions to guide decisions and reduce risk.
• Partner with technical leads and architects to ensure engineering decisions support scalability initiative health and strategic outcomes.
• Build and maintain dashboards that connect program execution data to executive insight.
• Define and promote reusable patterns operating models and frameworks that improve technical program delivery across engineering.

Strategy and Decision Support

• Collaborate with the Director of Technical Program Governance to establish the strategic direction for technical program management approaches and frameworks.
• Analyze program data to identify gaps risk and opportunities; leading and driving toward balanced solutions and mitigations.
• Craft executive-level narratives that clearly articulate engineering progress risk and business impact in decision-ready formats.
• Influence prioritization and funding decisions using insight and data-backed rationale.

Adoption and Impact

• Partner with change management leaders to make certain each key initiative features comprehensive readiness training enablement and adoption strategies.
• Identify organizational friction points early and drive mitigation plans that ensure initiatives land efficiently and sustainably.
• Ensure technical delivery incorporates clear routes to operationalization behavioral change and sustained value realization.
• Advocate for user-centric adoption outcomes as equal in importance to technical completion.

Key Performance Indicators

The individual will be measured on:

• Successful delivery of groundbreaking technical initiatives.
• Acknowledgment of technical program management methods as drivers of innovation and speed.
• Positive executive engagement and satisfaction with delivery quality.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

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