Sony Interactive Entertainment · 1 day ago
Senior Design Program Manager, UX Design
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $255K/yr
6+ years expSony Interactive Entertainment is a global leader in entertainment producing the PlayStation family of products and services. The Senior Design Program Manager will lead design initiatives and projects, focusing on planning, resource management, and collaboration to deliver innovative solutions across work streams.
Consumer GoodsMusicVideo Games
Responsibilities
You will strategically drive the process while collaborating with designers, writers, and researchers
You will integrate multiple workstreams - championing accessibility, integrating deeply with design systems, and ensuring design excellence through engineering handoffs and QA
Teams you work with will see you as their reliable and trusted partner, acting as an advisor and as their design operations point of contact
You will partner with design leadership and cross-functional teams to establish roadmaps and maintain them through understanding business priorities and cultivating strong relationships across the organization
You will successfully collaborate with design leaders, designers, product managers, researchers, engineers, and other design program managers
You will be a multiplier who inspires and motivates others to do their best work
You will cultivate design thinking, plan & lead workshops and advocate for user-centered design
You will continuously refine operational processes, strengthen feedback and learning loops, and drive consistency across the design teams in your domain
You will balance problem-solving with operational execution to strengthen the team and end product
You will own strategic artifacts and drive initiatives/programs to ensure the team is deeply connected to the broader business context
Within your domain, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide issue management, drive prioritization and planning, support resource management, and program tracking to support cross-discipline teams in delivering design excellence
Qualification
Required
6+ years of design program management experience in technology and creative environments
Strong communication, with the ability to articulate design and technical requirements clearly, and develop strategic comms to various partner groups
Track record of delivering large-scale design programs and projects, preferably working in partnership with product, engineering, and technical program managers
Experience working in continuous delivery environments where the pace is fast and priorities can shift quickly
Passion for user experience and design with an understanding of the product development process
Experience raising issues, anticipating and making trade-offs, balance the business need versus other constraints and improve business benefit while building exceptional user experiences
Experience working across multifaceted problem spaces, and ask the right questions to arrive at better solutions with broader business priorities in mind
Relationship and trust building – develop strong partnerships to guide, inform, or support efforts; demonstrate collaboration, curiosity, humility and positivity and possess strong conflict resolution with a diverse range of partners
You model a growth mindset by actively seeking feedback, and delivering feedback to others in a clear, supportive, and constructive way that supports shared success
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Matching 401(k)
Paid time off
Wellness program
Coveted employee discounts for Sony products
Bonus package
Company
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment is responsible for the PlayStation brand and family of products and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Ben King
SVP, Direct-to-Consumer, Sony Interactive Entertainment / Playstation
Kiichiro Urata
SVP, Head of Japan Asia Partner Development & Relations / member of the Board of Directors
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