Program Manager, People & Places

United States, Los Angeles · Remote - CA · USD 137,200-205,800 · Posted Oct 1, 2026

At a glance

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead a varied portfolio of strategic, operational, and employee-focused initiatives within the People & Places Project and Portfolio Management Office.
This role partners with functional leaders, sponsors, and cross-functional teams to translate objectives into executable plans, facilitate timely decisions, manage dependencies and risks, and sustain momentum.
The position requires current residency within the Pacific Time Zone, with a preference for candidates located in the Southern California region.

Lead complex, cross-functional programs and initiatives across People & Places and partner organizations.
Partner with sponsors and stakeholders to clarify intended outcomes, scope, success measures, decision rights, roles, milestones, and delivery expectations.
Translate strategic objectives and evolving business needs into practical, integrated program plans and workstream roadmaps.
Coordinate related projects, workstreams, and dependencies to ensure their collective outcomes support broader program objectives.
Facilitate alignment and decision-making across stakeholders with different priorities, perspectives, and levels of authority.
Identify and actively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and key decisions.
Establish an appropriate rhythm of working sessions, delivery reviews, leadership touchpoints, and status communications.
Produce concise, decision-oriented updates that provide transparency into progress, program health, risks, dependencies, and required leadership action.
Partner with the Change Manager and functional leaders to assess change impact and support stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, training, adoption, and transition activities.
Maintain accurate program and portfolio information in Asana and contribute to portfolio reporting, intake, prioritization, and capacity-planning activities.

At least six years of progressively responsible project or program management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to lead programs and workstreams through influence in a matrixed organization.
Strong experience converting ambiguous objectives into clear outcomes, integrated plans, milestones, responsibilities, and decisions.
Ability to connect individual initiatives and workstreams to broader strategic objectives and intended business outcomes.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information and prepare concise, executive-ready updates.
Strong facilitation, stakeholder-management, and conflict-resolution skills.
Sound judgment and the ability to determine when greater structure, escalation, or leadership involvement is needed.
Experience managing program risks, dependencies, decisions, scope, schedules, and competing priorities.
Experience using modern project, program, and collaboration platforms.
Current residency within the Pacific Time Zone.

Experience delivering People, HR, workplace, employee-experience, and/or organizational programs.
Experience operating in a global, matrixed technology, entertainment, or similarly fast-paced organization.
Experience supporting senior executives and facilitating decisions across multiple functions or regions.
Experience coordinating multiple related workstreams, projects, or organizational dependencies.
Experience partnering with change-management professionals on organizational readiness, communications, adoption, or transition activities.
Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as Workday, ServiceNow, Greenhouse, or workplace-management systems.
Experience with Asana or another portfolio management platform.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience; preferred, PgMP, PMP, or comparable program, project, agile, or change-management certification is a plus.