Sr. Technical Program Manager (People Technology)

Location: United States, San Diego, CA; hybrid/onsite at Via Esprillo

Base salary: $175,500–$263,300 USD annually; bonus eligibility may apply.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead large, complex technical programs from discovery and business case through planning, execution, testing, deployment, stabilization, transition, and closure.
• Act as the hands-on Scrum Master for the People Technology Services team, facilitating a consistent two-week sprint cadence and all core Scrum ceremonies.
• Coordinate Product, Integrations, Data, Security, Architecture, Human Resources, Payroll, vendors, and other cross-functional workstreams.
• Establish roadmaps, milestones, governance, decision rights, delivery plans, RAID logs, dependency maps, and communication rhythms.
• Use Jira boards, dashboards, and sprint/program metrics to improve forecasting, delivery predictability, risk management, and continuous improvement.
• Translate technical progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs into executive updates and data-backed recommendations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical project or program management experience leading complex software, platform, integration, or infrastructure initiatives.
• Extensive hands-on Scrum Master experience with technical teams operating in recurring sprints and facilitating all core Scrum ceremonies.
• Deep knowledge of Agile and Scrum, including backlog readiness, story decomposition, estimation, capacity planning, sprint goals, impediment management, retrospectives, coaching, and continuous improvement.
• Experience leading large, complex, multi-workstream programs covering scope, roadmaps, schedules, governance, risks, dependencies, decisions, testing, change readiness, and release delivery.
• Advanced Jira or comparable planning-tool experience, including board and workflow design, sprint administration, queries, dashboards, roadmaps, and program-level reporting.
• Demonstrated use of delivery data and sprint or program metrics to improve forecasting, influence priorities, communicate risk, and drive measurable improvement.
• Strong technical literacy across the software development lifecycle, enterprise platforms, cloud services, and release practices.
• Executive-level stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills across technical teams, business leaders, and senior decision-makers.

Nice to have

• CSM, A-CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, PMP, or comparable certification.
• People Technology or HR Technology experience, including Workday or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Experience with Jira reporting extensions or visualization tools such as eazyBI, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Experience mentoring others, resolving conflict, and influencing outcomes without direct authority in global, matrixed environments.
• Experience coordinating globally distributed teams, strategic vendors, or enterprise programs involving significant organizational change.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior individual-contributor role with responsibility for high-impact outcomes and cross-functional influence.
• Hybrid working policy applies; individual base pay depends on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
• Medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and Sony employee discounts.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.
• Sony Interactive Entertainment is an equal opportunity and Fair Chance employer.