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Sr. Director, Program Management

San Diego, CA

The Sr. Director of Program Management is an inspirational leader who will bring together the teams responsible for Innovation and Transformation at Sony Interactive Entertainment. This person will act with a sense of purpose and urgency for execution to get innovation in the hands of customers to quickly gauge product-market-fit. This person will have proven success in leading product development teams, leading the transformation of global program management organizations, developing collaborative high- performance teams to achieve higher-valued added activities, while leveraging program management methodologies.

 

The Sr. Director of Program Management will have excellent leadership, analytical, and planning skills. They will be the voice of the Program status to peers and senior executives across the company. This leader will help define the experimentation framework and product development process for innovation. They will identify metrics that will help the organization identify when product-market-fit has been established and establish the decision-making forums to drive towards additional investment and scale.

Key Responsibilities Include:

Build and Lead Teams:

• Attract, encourage, develop, and retain a high-performing geographically distributed program management team.
• Lead a team of talented program managers overseeing complex, full-stack, outcome-driven projects across Hardware, Software, and Service Platforms.

Strategic Program Management:

• Develop and influence program delivery strategy, ensuring a quick cycle from idea to experiment to delivery.
• Optimize product development best practices.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Proactively communicate opportunities and risk with senior executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with key leadership stakeholders to assess and streamline processes, mitigating risks and generating efficiencies.

Efficiency and Innovation:

• Drive efficiencies and linkages between projects by identifying shared services.
• Lead efforts to continuously measure and evolve internal program processes with an objective of accelerating PMO, Engineering, Product, Design, and Quality.
• Identify ways to do more with less.
• Embrace and build a culture of experimentation - where good ideas come from all parts of the organization.

Leadership and Culture:

• Support the transformation of the current program management office to higher-valued added activities across the product lifecycle.
• Act with a sense of ownership and urgency to get innovations in the hands of customers.-Embrace a culture of ownership and accountability across the teams that you work with.
• Foster and model a diverse and inclusive work environment across teams.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Demonstrated leadership qualities, including a history of working across different organizational levels - including the most senior leaders.
• Proven experience in driving transformative initiatives and understanding diverse geographical and cultural needs.
• In-depth expertise in program structure design.
• Expertise in leveraging data and technology to measure progress and ensure success at a scalable level.
• Proven track record in advocating for and implementing new investments in technology, especially in