Technical Product Manager

Sony Interactive Entertainment - San Mateo, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - San Mateo, CA

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

About the position

The Technical Product Manager at Sony Interactive Entertainment will play a crucial role in driving communication and program management for centrally developed technologies and initiatives, particularly focusing on Artificial Intelligence in game development. This position involves ensuring the smooth adoption and integration of these technologies into existing workflows across various game studios, while collaborating with both internal and external partners to deliver high-quality projects on time.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with relevant leads to deliver on project goals and milestones.
• Manage the planning, scheduling, and release of work, identifying risks and blockers to successful rollout and adoption.
• Coordinate trials, proof of concept deployments, knowledge sharing, and feedback gathering sessions for game development technologies and services across diverse game studios and partner organizations.
• Track and update project and program progress, delivering project documentation and status.
• Work with internal studios, platform business group partners, and external partners on in-development projects to ensure quality on-time delivery of centrally developed technology.
• Identify and prioritize common use cases and requests for new centrally developed technologies and services or enhancements to existing ones.
• Ensure a common understanding and agreement on project scope, objectives, and impact of any changes.

Requirements

• Previous experience in a Producer or Product Manager role within the games industry.
• Experienced in project management using Jira, Confluence, or other related tools.
• Experience of planning multiple projects from conception through completion and sunset with a mixed-discipline team using a variety of technology platforms.
• Experience with AGILE sprint and milestone management.
• Demonstrated success in building strong working relationships with technical and creative stakeholders.
• A proactive, methodical, and detail-oriented approach with the ability to communicate and influence effectively across studios.
• Break down complex initiatives, features, or challenges into manageable portions and actionable steps.
• Assimilate diverse information and assess the impact on each phase of production and on the project as a whole.
• Identify groups that may be affected by a goal, actively solicit their input and follow up with strong execution.
• Identify and mitigate project risks in consultation with key subject matter experts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively across product development and management teams globally.
• Proven conflict management skills with a strength in mediation leading to resolution of risk and roadblocks.
• Mastery of a variety of project management techniques in an internal development environment coupled with experience building and maintaining schedules.
• High level knowledge of generative AI and machine learning technologies, game development workflows, online technologies, and general programming principles.

Nice-to-haves

• Prior experience of modern scripting languages (e.g. Python)

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Matching 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Wellness program
• Employee discounts for Sony products
• Bonus package