Product Design Manager

Dick's Sporting Goods • Enfield, CT

222d • $170,000 - $190,000

About The Position

As a Product Design Manager at GameChanger, you will lead the design of consumer-focused products that connect fans to their youth sports community. You will be responsible for fostering a growing design team focused on delivering a rich and immersive Gameday experience for our users. You will play a pivotal role in shaping impactful Advertising, Growth, and Trust/Safety experiences for our partners and users, working across multiple platforms, devices, and teams. You are knowledgeable about sports and interested in driving outcomes at the intersection of creative and business value.

Requirements

• Understanding and appreciation of sports.
• Experience designing for consumers.
• 5+ years of relevant product design experience at a tech or product-driven company.
• Experience leading a group of designers.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills internally & across departments.
• Ability to take large problems and break them down into bite-sized measurable chunks.
• Experience conducting user research, facilitating user interviews and user tests, and synthesizing findings to identify trends and make recommendations.
• Ability to advocate for design by articulating and presenting the rationale behind ideas.
• Commitment to moving the team forward and positively impacting the team.

Responsibilities

• Manage and professionally develop a small team of exceptional designers working across our Ads, Trust/Safety, and Growth teams.
• Mentor your designers on both soft and hard skills, helping them develop and achieve career goals.
• Advocate for tactility, accessibility, customer needs, and design excellence.
• Measure and own the results of how well solutions address design and product needs.
• Champion the product direction with a point of view that delivers the best outcome for our customers and the larger business.
• Proactively identify large, strategic UX opportunities that span both inside your areas and across the product.
• Drive cross-product initiatives through awareness and prioritization.

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Paid volunteer opportunities.
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years.
• WFH stipend - $500 annually.
• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development.
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans with an immediate company match.
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
• Disability leave - short-term and long-term disability.
• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
• DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers