UX Manager, Design Systems

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Manager, Design Systems

San Francisco Bay Area

The group works horizontally across all PlayStation consumer products and platforms to provide product design teams with the component libraries and design documentation needed to design the world's most desired gaming products. They encourage cohesion across our product areas while also allowing for innovation and creativity to push the system forward. They have a mastery of our design tools and tame the many projects in flight by evangelizing consistent process and structure.

As a Design Systems Manager, you'll lead a team responsible for building and evolving cohesive, scalable UI components and design tokens across multiple platforms. You'll uphold and refine the standards, contribution practices, and governance that keep the system consistent, usable, and sustainable over time. You see the big picture but really sweat the details. You'll partner closely with Product and Engineering to support adoption across products while balancing long-term integrity with practical needs.

What you'll do

• Lead the design quality and evolution of UI components, design tokens, and supporting documentation across platforms.

• Guide the development of individual components and larger patterns, ensuring scalability, consistency, and accessibility.

• Maintain healthy, usable Figma libraries and clear system documentation.

• Establish and uphold component lifecycle governance, contribution guidelines, and quality review processes.

• Manage the design backlog and system design debt, triaging requests and partnering with Product to shape priorities and roadmap plans.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design teams to resolve implementation friction and ensure production readiness.

• Develop adoption strategy and measurement to drive system consumption.

• Navigate and organize complex and often ambiguous problem spaces

• Coordinate cross-team and cross-regional dependencies.

• Manage, coach, and develop designers while fostering a culture of systems thinking, craft excellence, and accountability.

What we're looking for

• A strong portfolio demonstrating multi-platform design system experience and product thinking.

• Experience leading, coaching, and developing designers, including performance and career growth.

• Deep knowledge of design system governance, component lifecycle management, and scalable design practices.

• Experience shaping roadmaps, managing priorities, and driving measurable adoption in partnership with Product and Engineering.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and clearly communicate decisions and rationale to diverse stakeholders.

• Expertise in accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.

• A structured and organized approach to work that brings clarity to complex or ambiguous environments.

• A strategic mindset with experience navigating ambiguity and contributing to long-term system evolution.

Bonus points:

• Experience working on consumer gaming or media products.

• Experience working with distributed or global teams and designing for international audiences.

• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React and CSS.

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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.

$169,500 - $254,300 USD

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