Senior Manager Product Design at Underdog Sports

What you’ll do:

• As a Senior Manager, you’ll be responsible for our core product offerings in accounts, payments and cohesion. You’ll further our mission of delivering brand-specific consumer experiences, building cohesive user journeys within a product family, partnering across Product, Engineering and other business partners, and working with Design team members directing rapid visual concepts and producing high fidelity visual design. We are a multi-disciplinary design team where you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with many design groups and specialties to create innovative products that people love to use
• Manage in a true 0-to-1 product environment. Ideate, create, grow, and ship products at scale for sports fans
• Provide day-to-day design leadership that builds a shared understanding of the complete user-centric intersection of design, content, technology and business.
• Be a design activator, working to deliver a vision and strategy that balances revolutionary projects along with a plan for innovative, iterative updates to realize a more extensive vision
• Partner with a variety of teams, inspiring confidence that your team will deliver compelling user experiences that are informed, cohesive, and inclusive.
• Lead a team of product designers with various expertise, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to foster their growth and development
• Drive the end-to-end design process, from concept ideation and wireframing to high-fidelity prototyping and user testing, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience across all platforms
• Advocate for the needs and preferences of our diverse user base data-driven insights to inform design decisions
• Effectively communicate design concepts, rationale, and trade-offs to stakeholders at all levels, fostering a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Who you are:

• 10+ years of Product Design/Creative experience, including 5+ years of management experience leading and inspiring teams of designers
• Strong portfolio showcasing a range of projects demonstrating your design process, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Experience resource-planning and staffing projects and groups based on the available skills to deliver excellent design solutions on time
• Possesses a broad and comprehensive understanding of different systems, theories, and practices of design leadership
• Experience identifying and setting platform strategies, envisioning complex user interactions, and inspiring teams to push the boundaries of what’s possible
• Can communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
• Passionate about sports, Underdog’s mission, and products

Even better if you have:

• Experience in visual design and/or art direction
• Experience in fantasy sports and/or sports betting

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $216,000 and $250,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.

What we can offer you:

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents