Staff Technical Change Manager (Technology)

Location: United States, Los Angeles, CA; hybrid working policy applies.

Base pay: $173,000–$259,400 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global, part of Sony Interactive Entertainment and Sony Group Corporation, develops gaming hardware, network services, and interactive entertainment experiences for more than 100 million people.

What you will do

• Lead change strategy and execution for complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams, organizations, technologies, and geographies.
• Assess affected systems, dependencies, operating models, workflows, roles, decision points, stakeholder impacts, readiness needs, and adoption risks.
• Define communications, engagement, enablement, measurement, and reinforcement approaches that support sustained adoption.
• Partner with engineers, architects, technical program managers, product leaders, subject-matter experts, and senior business and technology leaders.
• Build reusable frameworks, playbooks, templates, decision guides, and lightweight operating practices for technical change management.
• Coach leaders and cross-functional partners, capture lessons learned, and improve organizational change capability and self-sufficiency.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional organizational change in technology, engineering, digital, or technical environments.
• Strong technical fluency across modern software and technology environments, including systems, platforms, architecture, integrations, engineering workflows, and technical dependencies.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts and decisions into stakeholder impacts, adoption needs, communications, enablement plans, and practical actions.
• Deep practical knowledge of organizational change methods and tools, with the judgment to adapt, combine, simplify, or move beyond a methodology when required.
• Experience developing end-to-end change strategies covering stakeholder analysis, impact assessment, readiness, communications, engagement, learning or enablement, adoption measurement, and reinforcement.
• Strong independent judgment and problem-solving skills in ambiguous environments where the change strategy, operating model, or path forward is still being created.
• Ability to influence senior technical and business leaders, facilitate difficult conversations, build alignment across competing priorities, and move decisions forward without direct authority.
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative signals to assess adoption, identify resistance or friction, test assumptions, and adjust strategy based on evidence.
• Ability to create reusable frameworks, playbooks, tools, and guidance and coach others so change capability scales beyond the individual.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive narratives with sufficient technical substance for engineering audiences.

Nice to have

• Consulting or transformation advisory experience across multiple clients, organizations, or business units.
• Experience building or materially evolving a change capability where practices, roles, standards, and expectations were not mature or consistently established.
• Experience supporting platform, infrastructure, cloud, architecture, developer tooling, enterprise systems, or other technically complex transformation work.
• Experience working directly with engineers, architects, technical program managers, product leaders, and senior technology executives.
• Background in games, interactive entertainment, or large-scale technology.
• Formal change-management certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, and wellness program.
• Employee discounts for Sony products.
• Potential eligibility for a bonus package.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage.