Sr. Product Designer - Yahoo Fantasy Sports

Yahoo Holdings - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - New York, NY

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. We're an original fantasy sports pioneer, with a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. As a senior product designer, you will play a crucial role in elevating, innovating, and creating highly engaged product experiences that delight our 40 million users. This position is not just about crafting apps; it's about creating experiences that resonate with the passion of sports fanatics. Our goal is to provide real-time, personalized content that keeps fans engaged and delighted. If you're a top-tier product designer who lives and breathes fantasy sports, this is your chance to be part of a global design team that's redefining the future of fantasy sports engagement. As a key player in our remote team spanning the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Lawrence, Vancouver, and Toronto, you'll collaborate with like-minded sports fans and storytellers. We're not just a team; we're a vibrant community committed to delivering best-in-class product experiences. Our values shine through our culture, and we're dedicated to fostering an environment where everyone thrives and grows. You will shape and implement our comprehensive sports growth strategy, leveraging market insights and understanding customer needs and competition. You will tackle broad, ambiguous challenges, transforming them into clear, valuable, and delightful solutions while integrating user research and data insights into every stage of development. Your role will also involve applying best practices across various platforms and devices, contributing to a cohesive design system, and mentoring 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 Figma, Origami, After Effects, and other design tools for creating concepts, prototypes, assets, and specifications.
• Strong product sense with an ability to build products the market needs.
• Passion for sports, coupled with deep industry knowledge.
• Strong analytical background, leveraging data to drive business decisions.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a high level of empathy.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in designing for sports products is a plus.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program