Staff Technical Program Manager

PlayStation Global seeks a Staff Technical Program Manager in Bristol, UK to lead programmes that refine the tools and platforms game creators rely on every day. This full-time position invites you to shape critical software deliveries that underpin the wider PlayStation developer ecosystem.

Role Overview

As Staff Technical Program Manager you will operate at the centre of the software development lifecycle for a suite of tools supporting PlayStation platforms, ranging from compilers and performance analysers to audio and graphics utilities. Working closely with engineering groups across the United Kingdom and Ireland, you will also engage stakeholders located in the United States and Japan. Responsibilities centre on building coherent plans, establishing repeatable processes, tracking progress, coordinating releases and balancing resources, roadmaps, dependencies and risks. You will help the wider technical programme community by sharing frameworks and improved working methods, ultimately strengthening the developer platform that underpins all PlayStation software titles. Candidates who combine practical software-engineering experience with pride in on-time, high-quality delivery will thrive here.

What You'll Do

• Assist the Software Engineering Manager in coordinating development, testing and release streams for platform-related software
• Prepare project plans that guide contributions to the PlayStation developer platform
• Align stakeholders around agreed objectives, milestones and quality criteria
• Orchestrate product-testing activities in partnership with quality assurance colleagues
• Provide clear progress reports to cross-functional teams and senior leadership
• Steer internal initiatives that strike the right balance between process improvement and external delivery commitments
• Champion advances in project-management and software-development practices across the organisation

Requirements

• Eight or more years of relevant project-management experience
• Proven success guiding multiple medium-to-high complexity software projects that span several organisations and globally distributed teams
• Consistent track record of completing projects to schedule
• Ability to oversee several concurrent software development efforts
• Experience leading change-management or standardisation programmes
• Working knowledge of Agile methods such as Scrum
• Strong software-engineering foundation, ideally including practical hands-on coding
• Continuous-improvement orientation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration abilities
• A project-management qualification (PMI, APM or equivalent) is advantageous
• Useful additional experience includes business-process improvement, large-scale developer platforms, AI or agentic tooling, modern languages and practices, Jira and Confluence, and collaboration with Japanese and US teams

About the Company

PlayStation Global forms part of Sony Interactive Entertainment, the organisation behind the PlayStation brand and a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. The company delivers advanced hardware and network services to more than 100 million people worldwide while stewarding some of the most recognised intellectual properties in entertainment. Its focus remains the creation and nurture of experiences under the PlayStation name, a mark synonymous with excellence and creativity, and it maintains a firm commitment to an inclusive working environment.

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