Senior Product Designer

🕒 July 29

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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

• Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready design deliverables. • Support high-level product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for the most important internal and external user needs. • Lead and conduct design and user research, as necessary. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, partnering with Product Managers, Engineers, Content Operations, SEO Strategists, Product Analysts, and fellow designers to take concepts from ideation to execution. • Work closely with engineers and PMs to evaluate constraints and trade offs. • Lead design projects with input from other members of the design team to ensure design quality and consistency across the user experience. • Understand the competitive environment and stay on top of great user experiences, especially within sports apps, sports media, and news related products. • Actively contribute to The Athletic’s Design System.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrable expertise in designing shipped product experiences across both web and native mobile applications. • Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills, as exemplified in an online portfolio or presentation. • Subject matter expertise related to sports and/or media. • Experience working with other designers directly on projects, and also indirectly to provide and receive feedback on work. • Experience collaborating with engineers, product managers, other XFN partners, and stakeholders with a high standard of quality and professionalism. • Ability to manage your time effectively, sometimes across several projects. • Expert Figma skills and knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite. • Hands-on experience using AI to develop concepts and live experiences. • Experience with prototyping and animation as a means to explore and convey design solutions. • An eagerness to try new things, innovate and learn — and a willingness to learn from mistakes. • Enthusiasm for being part of a multidisciplinary design studio and a collaborative design process.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s) • a company-matching 401(k) plan • paid vacation • paid sick days • paid parental leave • tuition reimbursement • professional development programs