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Senior UX Designer

San Mateo, CA

Who we’re looking for

You are equal parts prototyper and artist, with a keen eye for seeking out new opportunities for strategic product & business innovation. You strive to deeply understand new systems, technology, & tools and utilize them to create innovative, user-centered solutions in your product spaces. You thrive working in ambiguity and excel at defining the unknown.

You are a collaborator who can work hand in hand with a cross-functional team of best-in-class Designers, Engineers, Product Managers, and Business Partners to ideate, communicate and define new product experiences.

You will join a team focused on strategic product & business innovation, with the goal of identifying opportunities for new SONY products & businesses that would solve user problems across many markets & industries. You will report into the Gameplay design team in a hybrid role based in San Mateo. You’ll also be part of a larger SONY design organization 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 while exploring trailblazing, innovative concepts and defining new, user-centered experiences. 

What we need you to do 

• Create real, trailblazing, innovative products and experiences out of vague & ambiguous concepts. 
• Proactively seek out & identify new shifts & trends in the market, and work closely with cross-functional partners and other designers to generate new, innovative ideas for unique products and businesses
• 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.

What you bring to the table

• 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 in designing products for multiple platforms across various industries.
• Expertise with Figma/Sketch & Adobe Creative products
• Ability to improve and expand upon existing design systems/components.
• Ability to work unsupervised in an agile environment.

Bonus

• Have past experience working in an Innovation Studio, Lab, or Incubator
• 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. 

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We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

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