Program Manager

Job Description

As a Program Manager you will be responsible for driving projects from inception through deployment over a worldwide scale. You are expected to partner with the worldwide Sony Engineering and Product organization to lead, handle, and drive forward software projects. The responsibilities listed are not all-inclusive and additional duties may be assigned

Responsibilities:
• Own and drive end-to-end delivery of multiple large cross-regional, multi-functional initiatives
• Translate business requirements to executable stories and drive execution
• Dependency, gap analysis, and risk management
• Build partner relationship and collaborate with Engineering, Product counterparts, and other major partners
• Onboard new teams and guide through group development stages (forming, storming, norming, and performing)
• Enable and influence teams to make a difference

Required Skills/Experience:
• 3+ years of Program/Project Management experience driving software development efforts
• Experience in leading multiple large cross-regional, cross-team initiatives
• Solid understanding of agile, release processes, and continuous improvement
• Technical and business understanding of current system capabilities and limitations
• Proficiency with process management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Rally, Wiki, Confluence, google drive, and WebEx.
• Ability to look ahead and place prevention to the potential risk
• Excellent communicator, problem solver, and decision maker
• Attention to the detail with customer first mentality
• Awesome team builder
• Inspiring leader, open minded, ability to adopt and adapt

Preferred Skills/Experience:
• Agile coaching experience at scale
• Experience in a high transaction network based services, gaming industry, social media
• Technical knowledge of Java-based web application software, networking technologies, client-server API specification, sequence diagram, system interconnections design
• Japanese language proficiency is a plus

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5ko73-18-222-108-18-42 in your application.