Senior Technical Project Manager, PlayStation
$136.3-204.5k
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Open for applications
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$136.3-204.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- Requires 5 years' experience + Bachelor’s degree; or 4 years + Master’s degree; or equivalent experience as Project Manager leading multiple technical projects simultaneously including; physical data center and PoP expansions and deployments
- Demonstrates excellent project management skills by tracking, reporting, and resolving project issues efficiently
- Be a trusted partner to assigned business units by building domain expertise, understanding their rhythm of business, and offering balanced advisory
- Proficiency with process management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Smartsheet
- Superb communication and organizational skills with the willingness and ability to work with multiple teams located in different regions and time zones
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals incorporating external partners
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, work independently under pressure, prioritize, and stay focused in a fast-paced environment
- Highly motivated, self-starter who can balance problems efficiently and keen to respond with the appropriate level of urgency to situations
- Independent problem-solving skills and ability to run parallel tasks and accurately detail resolutions
- Ability to prioritize well and articulate your product roadmap across business functions and geographies, whether in small group discussions or large-scale presentation
- PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM certifications
What the job involves
- Join SIE's Technical Operations team to maintain platform availability and enable product features. Coordinate operations, deployment, and engineering projects across global teams
- We work to continuously improve processes, setting benchmarks for operational excellence. As a senior project manager, you'll lead technical advancements in processes and technology
- You will influence teams that craft, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve critical infrastructure systems with a focus on network and data centers
- You will work with key partners on gathering requirements, identifying risks, lead schedules, and communicating the status across the organization
- You will also collaborate with both internal and external teams to establish project achievements, schedules, deliverables, and the progress of various projects
- Plan, lead and communicate end-to-end project plans with collaborators and teams. Perform day to day project check-ins and updates to manage project delivery and quality
- Problem solving within fast-paced and constantly evolving environments, with the ability to bring order to ambiguous scenarios
- Develop and own communication plans for communicating project status, big picture, challenges, and risks to partners effectively and proactively
- Collaborate with other teams to collect data center expansion and product roadmap requirements for delivering capacity, facilities, and projects aligned with broader SIE and PlayStation objectives
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
- Free fruit every day in our offices
- On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
- On-site subsidised cafés
- On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care assistance
- x2 volunteering days each year
- Group pension plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
- Free giveaways of select first party products and services
- Discounts on PlayStation products
- Discounts on Sony products
- Access to other corporate discounts
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO, not founder)Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.
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