Product Design Lead (Sports Sponsorship, Saas)

Two Circles•Vancouver, BC

75d

About The Position

Two Circles grows audiences and revenues for the world’s leading sports and entertainment. We our help clients know fans best. From 14 international offices (Amsterdam, Bern, Cologne, Kansas City, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Miami, New York, Paris, Riga, Stockholm, Hyderabad and Vancouver), Two Circles manages billions of fan data interactions on behalf of over 950 clients around the globe, with more insight into fan behavior and desire than any other organization. Two Circles works with organizations across the world of sport and entertainment, including the NFL, Premier League, Wimbledon, World Rugby, EA SPORTS and UEFA. Help shape the future of how rights-holders manage, value, and activate partnerships. We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to elevate the user experience of Partnership Intelligence — our platform that empowers hundreds of sports and entertainment organisations to manage commercial partnerships with clarity, precision, and confidence. This is a critical role in a year where Partnership Intelligence is undergoing a major transformation. You’ll lead design across multiple squads as we modernise the platform, simplify complex workflows, strengthen cross-product coherence, and introduce more intelligent, intuitive experiences. Your work will help clients realise value faster, reduce friction, and unlock broader adoption across their organisations. You’ll operate across regions (North America, EMEA, and India), partnering closely with Product and Engineering to bring structure, clarity, and elegance to sophisticated, data- and workflow-heavy tools. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity and enjoys creating powerful, delightful experiences for expert users.

Requirements

5–8+ years of product design experience, including significant time in B2B SaaS or data-heavy products
Demonstrated ability to design complex systems with clarity, modularity, and scalability
Strong interaction design fundamentals — comfortable designing multi-step workflows, states, and data-driven interfaces
Strong visual design craft with ability to raise the quality bar
Experience with system design (information architecture, design systems, component-based thinking)
Strong prototyping abilities across low- to high-fidelity
Experience collaborating closely with PMs, engineers, and data teams
Excellent communication skills — able to tell compelling stories and influence senior stakeholders
A track record of operating autonomously and leading design across multiple squads

Nice To Haves

Experience experience with social, digital, streaming and broadcast media, computer vision, content contextualization
Experience working in multi-region, multi-timezone product teams
Prior involvement in shaping design systems or DesignOps
B2B experience in the sports or entertainment sector

Responsibilities

Lead design across multiple Partnership Intelligence domains
Shape the end-to-end experience of a platform used by commercial, activation, finance, and partnership teams
Define UX direction, partner on roadmap decisions, and champion quality across the product suite
Evolve our design system to increase coherence, reusability, and development velocity
Bring consistency to experiences that span multiple modules and user groups
Translate complex data, workflows, and system logic into simple, frictionless interfaces
Own interaction design, flows, and micro-interactions with a high level of polish
Raise the bar on visual design, clarity, hierarchy, and overall craft
Drive improvements to the design system, contributing new patterns and components
Solve complex system design challenges (modularity, scalability, information architecture)
Develop deep understanding of user needs, behaviours, and motivations across roles and regions
Identify new problem spaces, areas of friction/ineffiency, and opportunities across the platform
Partner with PMs, engineers, and data teams to validate concepts and prioiritise work
Use evidence to reframe problems and influence product direction
Build prototypes across fidelity levels to explore and validate ideas
Test concepts with users and iterate rapidly
Work with engineering to assess feasibility and constraints
Work with PMs to define requirements and user journeys
Collaborate with engineering early to ensure smooth implementation
Create clear documentation and support delivery teams throughout build
Align patterns and experiences across squads to eliminate fragmentation
Improve how design plans, communicates, and collaborates across the wider product team
Introduce rituals and documentation that raise quality and efficiency
Contribute to building a more mature, scalable design practice
Mentor and/or line manage other designers, prioritising high performance and professional development