Staff Technical Program Manager

Location: United States, San Mateo, CA; USA-CA-Telecommute. The role follows SIE's hybrid working policy.

Salary: $206,800–$310,200 USD base pay.

Company

hirify.global is the entertainment and technology brand of Sony Interactive Entertainment, delivering hardware, network services, and interactive entertainment experiences to more than 100 million people.

What you will do

• Lead large strategic technical programs spanning multiple engineering teams, organizations, technologies, or geographies from planning through measurable outcomes.
• Build integrated plans and roadmaps covering technical requirements, architecture, dependencies, milestones, resources, risks, and decisions.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product partners, and technical stakeholders to translate objectives into execution strategies and resolve complex issues.
• Manage technical and organizational dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, program health measures, and executive visibility.
• Design and improve scalable governance, planning cadences, OKRs/KPIs, decision mechanisms, and operating models.
• Mentor TPMs and cross-functional partners, lead standardization and change initiatives, and share reusable practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant technical program or project management experience, including ownership of complex software or technology initiatives spanning multiple teams or organizations.
• Technical fluency across software systems, platforms, architecture, integrations, and engineering practices, with the ability to translate technical complexity into program decisions.
• Experience leading large strategic programs end to end, from problem definition and planning through execution, delivery, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong independent judgment and problem-solving skills in ambiguous environments.
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies, technical risks, roadmaps, milestones, requirements, decision points, and delivery tradeoffs across the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to influence senior technical and business leaders, build alignment across competing priorities, and drive decisions without direct authority.
• Experience designing or improving program operating models, governance, planning cadences, metrics, or ways of working that scale beyond a single initiative.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive narratives with sufficient technical depth for engineering audiences.
• Ability to mentor, coach, or improve the effectiveness of TPMs and cross-functional partners through reusable practices and knowledge sharing.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience in software engineering, systems engineering, QA, architecture, or another technical discipline.
• Experience with platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, cloud, distributed systems, or other complex engineering environments.
• Experience leading standardization, transformation, or organizational change initiatives across multiple technical teams.
• Background in games or interactive entertainment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy with the listed San Mateo and California telecommute locations.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; matching 401(k); paid time off; and a wellness program.
• Employee discounts on Sony products and eligibility for a bonus package.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity and fair-chance employment environment.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.