Senior Creative Designer

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Senior Creative Designer

San Mateo, CA | Remote considered (US based)

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About this role :

We seek a Senior Creative Designer to join PlayStation's Brand Experience Design & Innovation (BXDI) team within Global Marketing. The BXDI team works to craft high-impact visual strategy and emotive storytelling for the PlayStation and Sony Interactive Entertainment brands across design, video, and experiential media. As a Senior Creative Designer, you will lead the design development and visual identity for innovative brand experiences (digital, physical, and interactive) for consumers and employees and oversee the creative shaping of our brand's future.

Work alongside artists, designers, producers, and editors to develop big ideas, high-impact moments for the PlayStation brand, and creative strategy that Global Marketing & PR, Product Development, Employee Teams, Sony Group, and partner agencies leverage directly and use as inspiration to bring our world-class creative to market.

This role will report to the Creative Director, Brand Experience Design & Innovation. The Senior Creative Designer role is a senior level, offering creative growth and career progression with opportunities to lead creative strategy, art direction, design execution, live productions, and experiential design and to advance your already seasoned skill set in creative ideation, art direction, and design execution. It will involve being responsible and accountable for essential initiatives for the PlayStation brand, independently and accountably managing creative projects, and strategically leading the art direction and design development of complex creative projects and designed experiences that showcase our brands.

What you'll be doing :

Core responsibilities include leading the development of creative direction, visual expression, and visual communication for the PlayStation and SIE brands in ways that connect with consumers and employees in marketing, brand partnerships, and branded experiences.

• Define, ideate and develop big, bold, and emotive visual design and creative strategies that resonate with consumers on behalf of partners across all divisions.
• Champion world-class creative through your independent execution, creative leadership, and building constructive and collaborative relationships with peer designers and producers in BXDI and other internal creative teams and partner agencies.
• Communicate for insight and impact by supporting the development of creative briefs that spark innovative thinking and delivering constructive and actionable feedback when working with partner teams and agencies.
• Persuasively, respectfully, and enthusiastically pitch your ideas to leadership, partners, and peers.
• Independently lead and manage creative projects, individually and in collaboration with video producers, including leading communication with partner teams, communicating challenges to leadership, and proactively seeking support when needed-with periodic backing from project management teams.
• Work to develop and evolve design processes that ensure results, on-time, and on-budget delivery, and facilitate effective team collaboration.
• Leverage your seasoned creative experience and strategic insight to provide peer mentorship to more junior staff and advance the whole team's creative prowess and design thinking expertise.
• Contribute to SIE's culture by approaching all projects as an opportunity to lead with empathy, curiosity, passion, and design thinking to produce outcomes that bring success to our partners and the business.
• Ensure that BXDI and our partner teams produce creative projects that are informed by and elevate PlayStation's Brand promise and tone of voice and live up to the team's creative ambitions and strategies.
• Contribute to the development and education of relevant strategy and design documentation for PlayStation brand visual design and Brand Marketing strategy for an audience of SIE employees and partners working on behalf of SIE.

Your skills and experience :

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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.

145,000-$217,600 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement :

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

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Salary : $145,000 - $217,600