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Sr. Planning and Program Manager (Global Partner Development & Relations)

12 Hours ago • 7 Years + • Operations • $138,200 PA - $207,400 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Sr. Planning and Program Manager will support the Global Partner Development & Relations (GPDR) leadership team in business operations, strategic engagements, and cross-functional initiatives. Key responsibilities include program management, ensuring alignment across GPDR and other SIE teams, facilitating planning, content creation, and strategic frameworks. The role involves business modeling, ROI calculations, investment strategies, developing proposals, negotiating with stakeholders, reporting on OKRs and KPIs, building program timelines, and improving organizational and program management tracking. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in business/management consulting, finance, project management, or similar fields within consumer electronics, digital entertainment, or the video game industry. Experience with global teams and an MBA are advantages.
Must have:
  • Program management expertise
  • Cross-functional team collaboration
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Budget & planning management
  • Data-driven insights & solutions
  • Strategic planning & workflow adjustment
Good to have:
  • MBA
  • Global work experience
  • Gaming industry knowledge
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, vision insurance
  • 401k matching
  • Paid time off
  • Wellness program
  • Sony product discounts
  • Bonus package

Job Details

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Sr. Planning and Program Manager

San Mateo, CA / Hybrid (*in-office requirement of 2 days per week)

We are seeking a Sr. Program Manager to support the Global Partner Development & Relations (GPDR) leadership team in leading business operations, strategic engagements, and cross-functional initiatives. This role will drive program management efforts, ensuring alignment across GPDR, relevant Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) teams, and Sony Group Corporation. Key responsibilities include facilitating planning, content creation, and strategic frameworks to achieve measurable objectives and KPIs. Additionally, the role will support business modeling, ROI calculations, and investment strategies for internal and partner-facing projects.

What you’ll do:

  • Organize and program manage GPDR business operations across multiple stakeholder groups and cross-functional teams to build commitment and deliver business outcomes.
  • Develop proposals and negotiate key functions, roles and responsibilities with stakeholders and cross-functional teams
  • Collaborate on reporting of OKR’s and KPI’s relative to GPDR’s activities via detailed data repositories and high level dashboards
  • Build detailed program timelines, deliverable plans, tracking reports, meeting notes and action items summaries, all subject to audit guidelines and SIE compliance standards
  • Improve organizational and program management tracking rigor to better evaluate Leadership Team and extended leadership team on various projects, strategies and ongoing business activities
  • For certain new business opportunities or organizational structures support GPDR and other SIE teams’ business modelling and strategic value definitions and narratives

You’ll be comfortable with:

  • Providing executive support in ongoing Budget and Planning management
  • Handling high impact programs from end-to-end that affect large cohorts of internal colleagues, ensuring timelines are realistic and delivered
  • Working self-sufficiently on projects, sometimes within ambiguous circumstances and in fast turnaround times
  • Producing high quality presentation materials with a clear and concise narrative, suitable for wide and senior audiences
  • Crafting relationships with internal teams, operating as the authority for your business area
  • Proactively evangelizing the value and importance of the work of our team and division, ensuring appropriate consensus
  • Running internal Sharepoint sites for corporate submissions and for employee information
  • Leading meetings, driving agenda to start and end promptly, and ensure objectives achieved

What we’re looking for:

  • 7+ years of experience in business/management consulting, finance in consumer electronics, digital entertainment or video game industry, project management, business planning, business operations or similar
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills required for a wide variety of audiences across the business and up to executive level
  • Robust fiscal, organisational and project management capabilities, including the ability to build, lead, and monitor internal budget tracking systems, timelines with inter-related dependencies
  • Experience in establishing and developing programs involving multiple internal functions, preferably at global scale
  • Ability to work through change with both business and employee needs in mind
  • Consistent track record offering appropriate business solutions using data-driven insights
  • Strong collaborative working style to achieve results
  • A long-term strategic planner able to identify and adjust short- and medium-term workflows at pace
  • A passion for getting things done simply and quickly
  • Interest in gaming, gamer culture, digital entertainment and consumer electronics is advantageous
  • Experience of working in a global environment an advantage
  • MBA preferred

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 

In addition, this role
is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

 

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$138,200 - $207,400 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

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