Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior Technical Producer to lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams and drive product development. You will be responsible for product roadmaps, technical planning, risk identification, and providing key analyses to project stakeholders. In this role, you will work closely with the Technical Director, Technical Architects, and Production Director to bring the project's creative vision to life by managing engine and rendering engineering teams.
What You'll Do
- Plan deliverables with project Leads and Architects, validate feasibility, and drive development through the project's entire lifecycle.
- Leverage knowledge and expertise to ensure technical alignment, coordinate dependencies, assign tasks, and drive the decision making process.
- Break down complex technical deliverables, create and manage the project roadmap, and keep stakeholders informed, aware of risks, and trade-offs.
- Motivate and enable engineering teams to drive complex technical topics forward.
- Manage day-to-day operations of engineering teams in an agile environment while keeping a watchful eye on team health and development status.
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members, including providing development planning, assessing their work performance, and looking out for career opportunities and their well-being.
- Participate in the recruitment process; conduct interviews, evaluate candidates' skills, experience, and compatibility with team and organization culture.
- Oversee and drive build stability and performance processes, ensuring the game is crash free and runs at a target framerate.
- Understand the codebase and make minor programming contributions to engine systems, staying connected to the tech stack of the project.
What We're Looking For
- Successful completion of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent relevant working experience.
- One or more shipped AAA titles, with experience in all stages of the production cycle, including post-launch—as both a programmer and as a lead or manager.
- Experience in directly managing people and multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
- Extensive experience with JIRA, including creating and using useful dashboards to monitor, inform, and drive deliverables.
- Strong organizational skills and an effective problem solver with a well-rounded technical background.
- Demonstrated leadership skills to lead topics, generate buy in, and move topics forward.
- Capable of breaking down complex technical projects, building solid development plans, and driving product development.
- At ease discussing complex technical topics with engineers and able to synthesize information in an easy-to-understand format for non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Nice to Have
- Good understanding of Unreal Engine and its production pipelines.
- Good knowledge of C++.
- Experience in software development methodologies like Agile and Kanban.
- Live Service title experience.
Technical Stack
- Unreal Engine
- C++
- JIRA
Team & Environment
You will manage engine and rendering engineering teams, reporting to the Lead Technical Producer. Sony fosters a culture based on kindness, adaptability, and courage that unleashes creativity, within an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity.
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.
