Senior Program Manager

Location: New York

** Sony Corporation of America**, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the Play Station Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth.

To learn more: .You will serve as the orchestrator across business, product, data, and technology leaders, ensuring alignment, governance, risk management, and delivery of measurable business impact — not just project completion.
** This position is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days on-site in the San Diego or Los Angeles Office.
**** POSITION SUMMARY*
* ** What You Will Own
** You will be accountable for end-to-end program leadership, from strategy alignment through value realization.
** Strategic Program Leadership*
* • Lead a portfolio of enterprise digital transformation programs spanning multiple business units, regions, and technology domains  
• Translate corporate and business strategy into roadmaps, investment priorities, and execution plans  
• Drive initiatives that transform customer experience, business models, data capabilities, and operational processes  
• Ensure programs deliver measurable business outcomes (revenue growth, cost efficiency, speed-to-market, customer impact)
** Cross-Functional & Executive Alignment*
* • Act as the primary program lead, partnering with Senior Leadership, Business Innovation, Product, Engineering, Data, Legal, and Operations  
• Facilitate decision-making across competing priorities, trade-offs, and constraints  
• Lead executive-level governance forums, including steering committees and program reviews  
• Communicate complex program status, risks, and strategic implications in a clear, business focused manner
** Execution Excellence at Scale*
* • Own delivery of large, complex, interdependent programs across globally distributed teams  
• Manage scope, timelines, budgets, resource planning, and release coordination  
• Proactively identify and manage cross-program dependencies, risks, and systemic constraints  
• Establish program structures, cadences, and operating rhythms that enable predictable delivery
** Value Realization & Operational Readiness*
* • Ensure solutions are not only built, but adopted and operationalized  
• Partner with business stakeholders on:  o Change management  o Process redesign  o Go-to-market readiness  o Go/No-Go release decisions  
• Define and track KPIs and success metrics tied to business value
** Governance & Continuous Improvement*
* • Establish scalable program management practices, tools, and standards across the DX organization  
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery models, cross-team collaboration, and execution efficiency  
• Mentor junior program/project managers and elevate program management maturity across the organization

Honesty, trustworthiness and ethical conduct are material requirements for the responsibilities outlined above
** QUALIFICATIONS FOR POSITION
**** Your qualifications and experience should include:*
* ** EXPERIENCE*
* • 10+ years of progressive program management experience, including leading large-scale, complex digital or technology programs  
• Proven success track in PMO roles at a top tech organization  
• Direct program management experience in AI initiatives, cloud, data, commerce and/or identity management strongly preferred  
• Proven track record managing:  o Cross-functional, cross-regional programs  o Multi-team dependencies  o High-visibility, business-critical initiatives  
• Experience working directly with senior executives and steering committees
** Program & Delivery Expertise*
* • Deep expertise in:  o Program governance  o Risk and dependency management  o Financial and resource planning  o Release and operational readiness planning  
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, release management, and…