Job Description
Lead Product Designer - Beyond Console
Who is a Lead Product Designer at PlayStation?
You are an instinctive mentor, a collaborator and a team leader. You are able to drive and inspire your team to deliver ground breaking ideas, simple, thoughtful interaction and creative, sophisticated designs. You are confident in your pursuit of innovation and ability to bring others to your vision. You see intricate problems as the beginning of simple solutions. You think at an ecosystem level and system level. You have excellent intuition but also understand the performance and business implications of your decisions.
You are motivated by crafting the experience of millions of users in one of the world's largest game and content distribution channels. You will work hand in hand with a cross-functional team of outstanding Designers, Engineers, Creative Technologists and Business Partners to conceptualize, communicate and define our product experiences.
Join our team in the heart of San Francisco's SOMA district and be a part of the global SONY design community – a group that celebrates the value of design, design thinking and design process. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with designers around the globe focused on elevating the standard of design across the organization and explore innovative concepts and technology.
Join us. Be Epic!
What We Need You to Do
• Gain a deep understanding of the PlayStation brand, products and services
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define PlayStation's strategy beyond our flagship PS4/PS5 consoles
• Create and implement design based on brand guidelines, business strategy, and user needs
• Hands-on design and co-create new products with your team from the ground up
• Communicate and build consensus on a strategy across Design, Product Management and Business teams
• Partner with UX research to drive progress based on insights and data
• Advance the overall quality and practice of User-Centered Design across the team, while advocating for quality and polish
• Mentor, lead and inspire designers to achieve outstanding work and innovative product ideas
• Provide clear direction and timely feedback to ensure we keep moving forward on schedule
• Deliver quality work in a fast-paced and fluid environment
What you bring
• BA/BS in Interactive, Visual or Product Design, Human Factors or equivalent experience
• At least 2 years of experience in a management or leadership role leading teams in interface, application and web design
• 7+ years demonstrated ability building user-centered interactive designs
• Strong design portfolio demonstrating thoughtful, simple and intuitive interactions as well as spectacular visuals, with outstanding motion, across various contexts: large-scale digital experiences, websites, mobile applications, etc.
• Excellent communication, presentation, analytical skills, and the ability to clearly articulate your concepts and their rationale
• Experience with design tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, etc.) for wireframing, high-fidelity mockups and prototyping
• Active participation in user testing, heuristic analysis, research, contextual interviews, competitive and analogous research to help craft, guide and refine ground-breaking design solutions
• Ability to work, expand, and improve existing design systems/components
• Experience crafting native applications for desktop a plus
• Experience working with decentralized, large/global teams a plus
• Experience localizing designs for a global audience in multiple languages is a plus
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. is helpful
• Bonus: You have a passion for gaming
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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r7k079-3-88-185-100-42 in your application.