Sr Manager, Product Design

Sr Manager, Product Design

We are building a small team of versatile and enthusiastic leaders to create new products for the PlayStation community. Our team delivered the new PlayStation Link, PULSE Explore and PULSE Elite products, recently announced the FlexStrike and PULSE Elevate products, and are hard at work on what comes next. We need an experienced and innovative mechanical product design manager to lead our small team of product design engineers who are realizing our extensive roadmap.

Come and play with us!

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will lead the mechanical design team responsible for all of our high profile product development efforts. This senior leader will be experienced and skilled at growing the capabilities of fellow team members while building strong relationships with internal and external partners. Being adept at hands-on mechanical design will also be key to their success. Specifically, they will:

• Manage a small team of talented mechanical product design engineers

• Guide team members in delivering overall system mechanical design, including review and one-on-one support as team members implement and deliver detailed CAD or architectural elements of product concepts

• Build and manage the relationship with the industrial design team

• Set high product standards for reliability and validation, and work with engineering and manufacturing partners to ensure those standards are met

• Anticipate challenges in design, manufacturing, productivity, or team culture

Skills:

• A skilled manager and technically strong mechanical engineer with strong product design fundamentals

• Cares deeply about supporting and growing direct reports to their greatest potential

• Engaged at both the product design level (what should it do?) and the detailed engineering level (how should it be built?)

• Experienced with small consumer products and new product development from initial concept through mass production

• Effective in bridging from a small core team working with and within large organizations

• Comfortable spanning from high level program strategy and management to detailed engineering implementation

• Hands on capability in creative prototyping approaches to rapidly build low and high-fidelity prototypes for design and functional assessment

Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelors degree in a related engineering field, or equivalent work experience

• 10+ years of experience leading mechanical design for small consumer products

• 3+ years in a personnel management role

• Demonstrated experience in designing detailed parts for a wide variety of manufacturing methods, such as injection molding, sheet metal stamping, and CNC fabrication

• Demonstrated experience in applying knowledge of various materials and their properties for specific product features & requirements

• Demonstrated experience in DFM, DFA, tolerance analysis techniques, and creating 2D drawings

• Demonstrated experience in reliability testing & analysis

• Exceptional CAD proficiency (SolidWorks preferred)

• Experience in the video game industry is not required, but interest and passion for gaming experience, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, and technology is vital

Working Conditions:

• Small team environment that feels like a start-up within a large organization

• Travel (primarily international) required. Estimated 15%

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 color, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, birthing parent or parental status, trade union membership, or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to build an inclusive environment, empower employees, and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

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