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Lead Product Designer - Gaming Tools

Who is a Lead Product Designer at PlayStation

You are a natural mentor, a collaborator and a team leader. You can drive and inspire your team to deliver cutting-edge design systems, thoughtful interactions and creative solutions to complex problems. You are confident in your pursuit of innovation and ability to bring others to your vision. You think at an ecosystem level and enjoy the challenge of applying design to simplify complexity. You have excellent intuition but also understand the performance and business implications of your decisions.

You crave the opportunity to enable the cutting-edge experiences that delight millions of users in one of the world’s largest game and content distribution platforms. You value the opportunity to understand the perspective of game developers and creating tools that satisfy their unique user needs. You will work hand in hand with a cross-functional team of best-in-class Designers, Engineers, and Business Partners to ideate, communicate and define the tooling system that powers all our experiences.

You will join our team, either in the heart of San Francisco’s SOMA district, or in sunny Los Angeles, and will become 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 a global team of designers focused on elevating the standard of design across the organization and explore state-of-the-art concepts and technology.

Join us. Be Epic!

What We Need You to Do

Gain a deep understanding of the PlayStation brand, products and services.
Advance the overall quality and understanding of design thinking and execution across the team, while advocating for a User-Centered Design process.
Mentor, lead and inspire designers to achieve outstanding work and innovative product ideas based on research and insights.
Provide clear direction and timely feedback to the teams to ensure we keep moving forward on schedule.
Maintain a forward understanding of design and technology trends and standard methodologies.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, and Research in high-level strategic decisions to drive outstanding, innovative product designs and User Experience.
Actively contribute as a designer on our suite of tooling products.
Execute 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 leadership role designing interface, application and/or web products.
7+ years of experience building user-centered interactive designs.
A strong design portfolio demonstrating thoughtful and intuitive interactions that demonstrate the ability to simplify and unlock the power of complex systems through solid design principles and a deep understanding of information architecture.
Excellent communication, presentation, analytical skills, and able to clearly articulate your concepts and their rationale.
Experienced knowledge of design tools (e.g. Sketch, Photoshop, etc.) for wireframing and high-fidelity mockups.
Enjoy participating 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, improve and expand and improve existing design systems/components.
Experience working for enterprise brands/products a plus.
Experience working with decentralized, large/global teams a plus.
Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. is a big plus.
Bonus: You have a passion for gaming.

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We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.

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