Xibo Open Source Digital Signage

Principal Technical Program Manager/ Product Manager

Xibo Open Source Digital Signage

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $235,000 - $255,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

GoSDLC

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end execution of highly complex, platform-level initiatives that support SEPS product vision and roadmap.
  • Translate high-level business goals into clear product outcomes, milestones, and success metrics, especially in ambiguous or early-stage problem spaces.
  • Partner with Product Managers and Engineering leaders to shape and align multi-quarter and multi-year roadmaps.
  • Ensure prioritization reflects customer impact, platform scalability, technical feasibility, and business value.
  • Act as a strategic partner to executives and senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Go-To-Market teams.
  • Communicate product progress, risks, trade-offs, and dependencies with clarity, enabling informed, outcome-driven decision-making.
  • Drive tight alignment across product discovery, delivery, and launch activities.
  • Connect technical execution with customer needs and business objectives, ensuring platform capabilities are delivered in a way that accelerates adoption and unlocks downstream product innovation.
  • Identify and manage risks, technical dependencies, and organizational constraints that impact product delivery.
  • Proactively develop mitigation strategies to protect roadmap commitments and long-term platform health.
  • Influence operating models, team structures, and investment decisions to improve delivery velocity and product quality.
  • Help scale product and platform processes that support global, multi-team execution.
  • Leverage strong technical understanding to partner effectively with engineering teams, guide architectural discussions, and ensure product decisions balance short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability.
  • Champion product and delivery best practices across SEPS, including roadmap hygiene, metrics-driven execution, and continuous learning.
  • Mentor program and product leaders to elevate organizational maturity.
  • Model calm, clarity, and accountability in high-ambiguity environments.
  • Serve as a mentor and role model, fostering a culture of ownership, transparency, and customer-centric thinking.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience leading complex, high-impact platform or product initiatives in fast-paced, technology-driven environments.
  • Strong track record partnering with Product Management to define strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
  • Outstanding communicator across all levels of management, with exceptional written and verbal skills.
  • Strategic thinker with strong decision-making skills under pressure.
  • Experience managing programs with heavy interdependencies across disparate engineering (JIRA) and business (non-JIRA) systems.
  • Track record of driving clarity and resolution in ambiguous or high-stakes situations.
  • Strong judgment in issue escalation, with the ability to resolve challenges independently when possible.
  • Experienced mentor, committed to growing team members and advancing PMO practices.
  • Deep knowledge of Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  • Experience in the video game industry.
  • Understanding of Japanese workstyle, culture, and language.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits
  • Fertility benefits, including surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs
  • Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children
  • Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
  • Short-term & long-term disability plans
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave
  • 401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options and company match with immediate vesting
  • Education assistance and student loan programs
  • Time off to include vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release), and a winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day (based on business needs)
  • Referral bonuses (subject to eligibility)
  • Matching gift program
  • Special discounts on Sony products, offered exclusively to Sony employees
  • Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through after-tax payroll deductions)
  • Annual incentive bonus

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
product managementroadmap developmentmetrics-driven executionSystems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)Agile methodologyScrum methodologyprogram managementrisk managementtechnical feasibility assessmentplatform scalability
Soft skills
strategic thinkingdecision-makingcommunicationmentoringclarity under pressureownershiptransparencycustomer-centric thinkingproblem-solvinginfluencing