Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

Senior Technical Project Manager

Location: San Diego

Hybrid / Onsite

The Senior Technical Project Manager is responsible for leading the planning and delivery of large, complex, and high-impact technical programs and cross-functional initiatives across SIE’s global People Technology platform.

This role operates as a senior individual contributor within People Technology Services (PTS), owning end-to-end program delivery and serving as the hands-on Scrum Master for the team’s established two-week sprint cadence. The role creates the governance, alignment, and delivery discipline needed to coordinate multiple workstreams, strengthen predictable sprint execution, and ensure strategic priorities translate into clear, executable plans.

Working within a globally consistent Agile product delivery model, the Senior Technical Project Manager partners with Human Resources, Payroll, Product Leads, Managers, Technical Leads, IT, Data, Security, vendors, and other cross-functional teams to align portfolio priorities, capacity, scope, timelines, decisions, and delivery outcomes. The role uses Jira, integrated delivery plans, dashboards, and sprint and program metrics to identify trends, advise leaders on trade-offs, and drive continuous improvement.

This role is suited for individuals who combine deep Agile, Scrum, and technical program management expertise with systems thinking, technical fluency, executive communication, and the ability to lead across teams, mentor others, and influence decisions without direct authority.

Key Responsibilities

Agile & Scrum Leadership

Serve as the hands-on Scrum Master for the People Technology Services Team, leading a consistent two-week sprint cadence and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews or demonstrations, and retrospectives.
Own and continuously improve the team’s Agile operating rhythm, working agreements, backlog readiness standards, and sprint governance to strengthen focus, transparency, accountability, and predictable delivery.
Partner with Product Leads, Managers, and Technical Leads to align priorities, capacity, dependencies, and sequencing across project work, operational support, intake demand, and unplanned work before sprint commitments are made.
Facilitate clear sprint goals and realistic commitments; monitor progress, impediments, scope changes, carryover, and unplanned work, and lead timely resolution or escalation when outcomes are at risk.
Use retrospective insights and delivery data to identify systemic bottlenecks, ensure improvement actions have accountable owners, and measure whether changes improve flow, quality, and predictability.
Coach Product Leads, team members, and delivery partners on practical Agile and Scrum practices, reinforcing role clarity and shared accountability while adapting the framework thoughtfully to enterprise needs.

Technical Program Delivery Leadership

Lead large, complex technical programs and high-impact initiatives from discovery and business case through planning, execution, testing, deployment, stabilization, transition, and closure.
Establish program outcomes, scope, success measures, integrated roadmaps, milestones, governance, decision rights, delivery plans, and communication rhythms in partnership with sponsors and stakeholders.