Vice President of Product Design

About Sony Music Entertainment

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.

Sony Music is seeking a Vice President of Product Design to lead the design vision, strategy, and execution for our global suite of artist, label, and internal tooling products within Product, Design, Engineering and Global Operations (our PDEGO team). This leader will guide a distributed team of designers, partner with Product and Engineering leadership, and shape intuitive, data-driven experiences that support our global business.

What you'll do:

• Elevate product design as a critical driver of solution quality, embedding design excellence into every stage of the product development lifecycle and measurably improving user outcomes.
• Develop, mentor, and empower designers at all levels, from sharpening the craft of senior ICs to creating growth pathways and clear guardrails for junior designers; foster a confident, cohesive design culture deeply integrated into PDEGO’s operating rhythm.
• Build and operationalize a robust user engagement and insights program, giving designers and product teams structured access to user feedback; navigate stakeholder nuance, establish repeatable research practices, and champion user voice as a strategic input to roadmaps and long-term bets.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional leadership to inform roadmaps, drive clarity, and reinforce a collaborative, solutions-oriented culture where teams practice healthy dialogue, shared ownership, and compromise to deliver the strongest outcomes.
• Lead and manage a high-performing global product design team; set the design vision and drive a culture of excellence, curiosity, and user empathy.
• Own the end-to-end design strategy for a complex ecosystem of internal music distribution and B2B software products in accounting tools, data products, and artist/label experience tools.
• Establish best-in-class scalable design practices and elevate design systems and standards that ensure consistency and quality across all PDEGO software products.
• Provide strategic design guidance, feedback, and direction across multiple product areas and global markets.
• Represent design thinking at the leadership level, bringing a user-centered perspective to decision-making.

Who you are:

• We are seeking a leader with 12-15 years of B2B software product design/UX experience with 5 years leading design teams at a senior level.
• Proven experience designing complex, data-heavy, enterprise or workflow tools at scale.
• Strong systems thinker with deep experience in information architecture and interaction design.
• Skilled at leading multidisciplinary, globally distributed teams.
• Excellent communicator with a track record of influencing and partnering with senior stakeholders to drive alignment.
• Highly collaborative, user-obsessed, and comfortable navigating ambiguity and complex problem spaces.

What we give you:

• You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to channel your passion every day  
• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork empowering you to bring your best 
• An attractive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401K employer matching 
• Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans 
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.  
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next  
• Time off for a winter recess

Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.