VP, Product Design

🕒 September 11

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $270k - $295k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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The Athletic

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

Media • Sports

The Athletic is a sports media company known for comprehensive sports coverage and in-depth reporting across various sports such as football, tennis, Formula 1, golf, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and college sports. It provides high-quality articles, live updates, and expert analysis covering significant events and players in the sports world. The platform features content on various leagues and tournaments, providing insights from well-known journalists and analysts. The Athletic aims to set the standard in sports reporting and offers subscription-based access to its content.

📋 Description

• Develop product vision and working prototypes for the next-generation sports app. • Own strategic visioning and design output with cross-functional leadership. • Drive product decisions that align the executive team. • Bring data-backed perspectives to product planning and influence business priorities and metrics. • Partner with the VP of Engineering, VP of Data, and Chief Product Officer. • Review flows, work directly in Figma, and prototype alongside the design team. • Define tools, workflows, and team structure for an AI-native design practice. • Build, coach, and manage a design organization of approximately 10 people. • Establish clear accountability for team and individual deliverables. • Collaborate with engineering, product, data, marketing, and commercial leadership. • Report to the Chief Product Officer.

🎯 Requirements

• Someone who is a sports fan first, who uses the product, has opinions about it, and lets that passion show up in the work. • A design leader with a track record of hands-on craft at senior levels. • Recent, personal work demonstrating hands-on craft. • Experience leading a design org through a step-change in how it works, ideally involving AI tooling and workflow, at a company shipping consumer product at scale. • Strong, well-argued opinions about what makes a sports product, or a comparable habit-forming consumer product, great. • Conviction to defend product opinions in a room of product and engineering leaders. • Comfort operating in ambiguity. • Some regular travel is required. • Experience starting or running your own company or side project is nice to have.

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable pay, such as an annual bonus • Restricted stock • Medical benefits • Dental benefits • Vision benefits • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s) • Company-matching 401(k) plan • Paid vacation • Paid sick days • Paid parental leave • Tuition reimbursement • Professional development programs