Staff UX Designer, PlayStation
+ Discretionary bonus opportunity
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Oxford Circus, London)
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Job no longer available
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Discretionary bonus opportunity
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Oxford Circus, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of commercial experience as an UX/Digital Product Designer, with experience working on large-scale Enterprise /B2B software products
- Practical experience working through the entire design process, from Discovery and product definition, to detailed production and launch
- Exceptional core UX design skills. Strong familiarity with web design patterns, standards and widely recognised approaches in the design industry
- Experience working with and advancing the use of design systems
- Confidence working with developers and product managers, advocating for and offering expertise on UX design during product development
- Practical experience facilitating good design strategy within a product team, guiding and educating others in user-centric ways of working
- Experience in Service Design, including mapping techniques
- Experience planning and running User Research Interviews and Usability Tests
- Experience leading workshop exercises and group co-creation sessions
- Superb communication - with the ability to present design work, rationale, process and approach - with confidence and clarity
- Experience educating others about the difference design makes - explaining process and activities to colleagues with business and technical backgrounds, and instructing in user-centric methods
- A portfolio or presentation showcasing your work and design process
What the job involves
- Join the Partners UX Design team and play a key role in crafting the future of game development and publishing, reaching thousands of users worldwide
- In this role, you’ll sit in a cross-functional product development team alongside several other UX professionals, delivering major enhancements to game developer tools
- This is a permanent role in a remote and hybrid friendly team, typically at home 3-4 days each week, and in our central London office (near Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street stations), 1-2 days
- Spend time crafting outstanding design solutions, from early conceptual stages through to product releases and updates. Your designs will be well-considered, and demonstrate:
- Deep understanding of user needs and priorities - including accessibility needs
- User flows that fit naturally with how people work, including good IA and navigation
- Clear communication of function and intended use through navigation, layout and language
- Highly intuitive and usable user interfaces, with excellent component selection and design
- Team up with product managers to ensure scope and concepts meet user needs, plan design activities and roadmaps, and ensure design-mature project strategy. Act as an authority on design and research - help teams empathise with users and master the design process
- Seek and act on design feedback from users and colleagues, advocating for a user-centric, evidence-led approach. When sharing designs you'll explain rationale clearly, inviting input from others and ensuring work meets user and business needs
- As the newest member of our design team in London, you'll also collaborate on ambitious, UX team-led initiatives to advance how design happens at PlayStation. For example, helping develop our design system, user archetypes and service blueprints
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
- Free fruit every day in our offices
- On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
- On-site subsidised cafés
- On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care assistance
- x2 volunteering days each year
- Group pension plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
- Free giveaways of select first party products and services
- Discounts on PlayStation products
- Discounts on Sony products
- Access to other corporate discounts
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Articles
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO, not founder)Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at PlayStation
- We're proud to celebrate diversity at PlayStation
- Our Employee Resource groups, including Women@PlayStation, REPRESENT@PlayStation, Wellbeing@PlayStation, and our award-winning LGBTQ+ group, Pride@PlayStation, actively promote inclusion in the workplace and beyond
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