Senior UX Designer

About the position

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more. PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team. We are looking for a Senior UX Designer with a keen eye for details to play a key role in shaping the future of the world’s largest game and content distribution platform.

Responsibilities

• Create real, trailblazing, innovative products and experiences out of vague & ambiguous concepts.
• Be a self-starter who is comfortable with defining new UX patterns, flows, system components, products, and experiences from start to finish.
• Be able to quickly produce multiple distinct UX/UI concepts for a single product.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple teams, analyze feedback, and implement that feedback into your designs.
• Rapidly iterate on design solutions based on engineering feasibility or other constraints.
• Be a great speaker who is comfortable with giving presentations to stakeholders & leadership about your product, designs, & ideas.
• Produce detailed specs and assets for implementation, and collaborate with product & engineering to ship best-in-class experiences for your user.
• Be a passionate communicator who excels at describing an idea to audiences who are less familiar with your product than you are.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Interaction or Product Design, Human Factors, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience building user-centered interactive designs.
• A portfolio that showcases thoughtful, simple, deliberate & intuitive design, with extraordinary interaction, motion, and visuals.
• Strong communication skills to clearly articulate your process, concepts, and rationale.
• Experience crafting web and mobile products.
• Expertise with Figma & Adobe Creative products.
• Ability to improve and expand upon existing design systems/components.
• Experience working with UX researchers.
• Ability to work unsupervised in an agile environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Have a deep understanding of the PlayStation brand and our existing services.
• Have shipped several products from start to finish.
• Are a gamer yourself, or are familiar with games/the game industry.
• Experience working with decentralized or global teams.
• Experience crafting experiences for a global audience in multiple languages.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance.
• Matching 401(k).
• Paid time off.
• Wellness program.
• Employee discounts for Sony products.
• Bonus package eligibility.