Sr. Product Designer - Yahoo Fantasy Sports

$128,250 - $266,875/Yr

Yahoo Holdings - Baltimore, MD

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Baltimore, MD

About the position

Yahoo Sports is seeking a talented senior product designer to join our innovative team. As a leading destination for comprehensive sports news and fantasy games, we are dedicated to creating engaging product experiences that resonate with our 40M+ users. This role is not just about designing apps; it’s about crafting experiences that keep sports fans engaged and delighted. You will be part of a global design team that spans across major cities including the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Lawrence, Vancouver, and Toronto. Our team is a vibrant community of sports enthusiasts and storytellers, committed to delivering best-in-class product experiences. We value a culture that fosters growth and collaboration, ensuring that every team member thrives in their role. In this position, you will shape and implement our comprehensive sports growth strategy by leveraging market insights and understanding customer needs. You will tackle broad, ambiguous challenges and transform them into clear, valuable, and delightful solutions. Your role will involve integrating 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. As a mentor, you will provide feedback with humor, grace, and empathy to teammates and cross-functional partners, ensuring a supportive and collaborative environment.

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