Staff Product Designer

Description

The company is a global media and entertainment business with three segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer and TV Media.

The team builds sports coverage and fan experiences across an app, a website and social channels, blending sports, culture and live storytelling.

You'll report to the Director, Product Design and help set the direction for how sports fans engage with the company's digital products.

The role calls for real sports knowledge, familiarity with digital sports products, and an understanding of how fans behave, how fandom works, and how people watch live and creator content.

You'll work with Design Operations, Product, Engineering, User Research, Data and business leaders to tackle open-ended problems, spot chances to innovate, and deliver work that improves customer and business results.

This is a senior individual contributor role: you'll shape product direction, raise design quality, and coach other designers while staying hands-on in UX design.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex projects that cut across products, platforms and customer journeys.
• Work closely with Design Operations, product managers, engineers, researchers and business stakeholders to define and deliver customer-centered solutions.
• Turn customer insight, business goals and technical limits into experiences that are easy to use and engaging.
• Produce workflows, wireframes, prototypes and polished high-fidelity designs that make the direction clear.
• Use research, analytics, experiments and market data to guide design decisions.
• Help build and refine design systems, patterns and reusable components for consistency and scale.
• Think in systems to improve experiences across the wider sports fan ecosystem.
• Take part in roadmap discussions and point out ways to lift engagement and business outcomes.
• Coordinate across teams to keep execution and delivery high quality.
• Mentor other designers through feedback, collaboration and critique.
• Explore emerging technology, including AI-powered experiences and AI-assisted workflows, to improve fan experiences and how the team works.

Requirements

• 8+ years designing digital consumer products and experiences.
• A record of leading complex, ambiguous and strategically important initiatives.
• A strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design and customer-focused problem solving.
• Experience shaping product strategy and aligning many teams and stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, storytelling and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using research, customer insight, analytics and experimentation to steer product direction.
• Ability to weigh long-term vision against practical delivery.
• Strongly preferred: experience with AI-native products, AI-powered experiences, personalization systems or emerging technology.
• Preferred: a track record of mentoring and developing designers.
• Preferred: experience designing large-scale consumer platforms, ecosystems or multi-product experiences.
• Preferred: background in sports, media, entertainment, streaming, gaming or consumer technology.
• Preferred: experience designing live sports, highlights, second-screen, stats, community or social fan experiences.
• Preferred: experience with motion, prototyping or storytelling tools that bring concepts to life.
• Preferred: understanding of personalization, notifications, content discovery or fan engagement patterns.
• Preferred: passion for sports and a good sense of what connects with different fan bases and communities.

Conditions

The hiring salary range is $129,500.00 to $240,500.00 per year.

Actual pay depends on factors such as location, external market data, internal equity, skills, experience, training, education and performance.

Applicants with a disability may request accommodations, and applicants with an arrest or conviction record are considered under the Los Angeles County and California fair chance laws.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Employee wellness program.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation.
• Base pay is one part of total compensation, which may also include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives and program-specific awards.