Staff Technical Program Manager

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; hybrid working policy applies

Base salary: $206,800–$310,200 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops the PlayStation brand, including gaming hardware, network services, and interactive entertainment experiences serving more than 100 million people.

What you will do

• Lead large, strategic technical programs across multiple engineering teams, organizations, technologies, and geographies.
• Build integrated plans and roadmaps connecting requirements, architecture, dependencies, milestones, resources, risks, and decisions.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product partners, and technical stakeholders to resolve complex issues and translate objectives into execution strategies.
• Manage technical and organizational dependencies, tradeoffs, program health measures, risks, scope, and outcomes.
• Advise senior leaders through technical analysis, program data, recommendations, and clear narratives about options and decisions.
• Improve scalable governance, planning cadences, OKRs/KPIs, decision mechanisms, standardization, and TPM capability through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

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 one 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 platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, cloud, distributed systems, or other complex engineering environments.
• Experience leading standardization, transformation, or organizational change across multiple technical teams.
• Background in games or interactive entertainment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and Sony employee discounts.
• Potential eligibility for a bonus package.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage, including criminal background checks for some roles.