Playstation is hiring a

UX Designer II

San Francisco

Why PlayStation?

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.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

UX Designer II, Commerce (B2C/B2B)

You are an experienced UX designer with a mixed portfolio of commerce focused solutions (B2C) and business-focused tools (B2B). You are a creative problem solver with a keen eye for details, you understand the technology and how to apply it to seek problems and innovate solutions. You are equal parts Prototyper and Artist. You never take a step forward without thorough testing, Research, and insights. And you are not afraid to play with the unknown!

You have an appetite for the opportunity to shape the experience of millions of users in one of the world’s largest game and content distribution platform. You're a collaborator and a diplomat among cross-functional partners, comfortable balancing product requirements, design solutions, and technical constraints.

You will join our Commerce team in San Francisco and will become a part of the global SONY design community. We celebrate 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 world-class concepts and technology.

What We Need You To Do

• Gain a deep understanding of the PlayStation brand and services
• Quickly produce multiple and distinct UX/UI concepts
• Ideate innovative solutions with inputs from key partners
• Build flows, wireframes, prototypes, and corresponding documentation
• Craft and apply design patterns, processes, and standard methodologies
• Rapidly iterate on design solutions based on engineering or other constraints
• Communicate design ideas in a compelling way, encouraging partners to accept new solutions and concepts

What you bring

• 2-3+ years of experience building user-centered interactive designs on both mobile and desktop
• A portfolio that showcases, thoughtful, simple, deliberate intuitive design and interactions, with a focus on commerce and web-based administrative tools
• Strong communication skills to clearly articulate your concepts and rationale
• Experience with payments and checkout
• Experienced knowledge of design tools and interactive tools (Figma, sketch, Adobe creative suite (Photoshop, illustrator and etc) for wireframing and high-fidelity mockups
• Ability to improve and expand existing design systems/components
• Produce detailed spec and graphic assets for implementation
• Experience collaborating with Product Management and Engineering counterparts
• Experience working with research and insights
• Experience conducting testing and heuristic analysis
• Collaborate with partners on user journey development
• Ability to work unsupervised in an agile environment
• Experience working with decentralized or global teams a plus
• Experience crafting for a global audience in multiple languages a plus

This role is not eligible for remote designation.

Additional Information

At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$118,600—$177,800 USD