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

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