About this role
Job title: Staff Program Manager - PlayStation Platform Initiatives
About the Role San Diego, CA-based Staff Program Manager to lead PlayStation Platform initiatives. This role will drive programs from inception through deployment on a worldwide scale to deliver customer benefits, partnering with a globally distributed cross-functional team to ensure product and operational readiness for market delivery.
What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end program delivery by driving roadmap development, strategic decision-making, and execution planning for large cross-functional teams across all phases of the program lifecycle, from concept through in-market launch.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and management of multiple worldwide business partners to ensure alignment with objectives, find common ground and promote diverse thinking and viewpoints for program success.
- Effectively and clearly communicate program information to various levels across organizational boundaries, including senior leadership.
- Proactively identify critical issues and dependencies that need action and drive them to closure, while balancing business needs and technical constraints.
- Influence at all levels and build strong partnerships across organizations to deliver the optimal outcome of complex programs.
- Utilize knowledge to enhance current processes, identify areas for improvement, and guide the implementation of those improvements.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree, technical education and/or work experience in a technical domain.
- 10+ years of experience working in a program/project management capacity for large-scale business systems and complex software development initiatives from kickoff to market delivery.
- Experience with Software Development Lifecycle, Design/System Thinking, Agile frameworks (preferably Scrum and Kanban), and Program Management Methodologies to implement the right practice for the programs.
- Effective leadership to prioritize assignments to meet required deadlines, craft action and program plans, identify gaps and risks to put in place mitigating factors and communication plans.
- Critical thinking to identify all related pieces of the program.