Staff Technical Change Manager

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

Salary: $173,000–$259,400 USD base pay annually

Company

hirify.global creates and supports PlayStation 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.
• Analyze affected systems, dependencies, operating models, workflows, roles, and decision points to determine appropriate change approaches.
• Translate technical implementation plans into stakeholder impacts, readiness needs, adoption risks, engagement strategies, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with engineers, architects, technical program managers, product leaders, and subject-matter experts to identify organizational consequences and downstream impacts.
• Build scalable change-management capabilities through frameworks, playbooks, templates, decision guides, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Measure readiness, adoption, and sustained use; identify barriers and adjust interventions based on evidence, feedback, and organizational context.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional organizational change in technology, engineering, digital, or technical environments.
• Strong technical fluency across 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 methodologies 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 involving rapid context building, executive influence, and practical recommendations across multiple clients, organizations, or business units.
• Experience building or materially evolving 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 work 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.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity and fair-chance employment environment.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage, potentially including criminal background checks.