Sr. Product Designer - Yahoo Fantasy Sports - JR0024359_IL

Yahoo Holdings - Champaign, IL

Full-time - Senior

Champaign, IL

About the position

Yahoo Sports is one of the internet's leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. We produce insightful content across multiple platforms and curate quality coverage from around the web to inform and entertain fans. As an original fantasy sports pioneer, we have a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. With over 40 million users, we are committed to providing real-time, personalized content that keeps fans engaged and delighted. We are looking for a talented senior product designer to elevate, innovate, and create highly engaged product experiences that resonate with the passion of sports fanatics. This role is not just about crafting apps; it’s about crafting experiences that delight our users. As a key player in our remote team, you will collaborate with like-minded sports fans and storytellers across various locations including the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Lawrence, Vancouver, and Toronto. We are a vibrant community dedicated to delivering best-in-class product experiences. Our culture is built on values that foster an environment where everyone thrives and grows. You will be responsible for shaping and implementing our comprehensive sports growth strategy, leveraging market insights, and understanding customer needs and competition. Your role will involve tackling broad, ambiguous challenges and transforming them into clear, valuable, and delightful solutions. You will integrate user research and data insights into every stage of development, applying best practices across various platforms and devices, and contributing to a cohesive design system. Additionally, you will mentor and provide feedback to teammates and cross-functional partners with humor, grace, and empathy.

Responsibilities

• Shape and implement our comprehensive sports growth strategy, leveraging market insights and understanding customer needs and competition.
• Tackle broad, ambiguous challenges, transforming them into clear, valuable, and delightful solutions.
• Integrate user research and data insights into every stage of development.
• Apply best practices across various platforms and devices, contributing to a cohesive design system.
• Mentor and provide feedback with humor, grace, and empathy to teammates and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years of digital product design experience for iOS, Android, and web platforms.
• Well-designed portfolio showcasing excellence in visual design, interaction design, prototyping, motion design, micro animations, and product thinking.
• Track record of designing products meeting or exceeding industry accessibility guidelines.
• Experience leading a user-centered design process from end-to-end.
• Proficient in creating polished layouts through typography, color, and visual hierarchy.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with micro animations that enhance user experience.
• Ability to present complex data in a clear and understandable manner.
• Demonstrated empathy and openness when interacting with teammates and other co-workers.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity