Senior Product Designer

Major League Baseball•New York, NY

About The Position

Major League Baseball is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join their team and contribute to shaping the future vision of baseball, delivering engaging fan experiences across all touch points of the fan journey, including live games and digital products. The Product Design team at MLB covers the entire fan journey, from primary research with fans and clubs to in-park experiences, websites, apps, games, streaming, and interactive products. The team focuses on trends in sports and media, aiming to enhance entertainment and delight in every aspect of the MLB experience through a fan-focused approach, design systems, content tooling, UX writing, and design research. MLB is dedicated to reimagining the fan experience, believing that understanding fans, thoughtful consideration of every experience aspect, and maximizing delight are crucial. The mission is to transform how fans interact with, enjoy, and watch baseball.

Requirements

5+ experience designing consumer, gaming, or streaming media products
5+ years in digital Product Design or User Experience Design
Have a good understanding of baseball and the numbers and insights behind the game
Experience working with large data sets and visualizations
Can go from ideation to delivery with the help of a solid design system. You may have depth in UX research, or visual design, but are skilled enough to do both
Are a fan and detail obsessed. You have great ideas but more importantly push through to make sure they are realized by ensuring all the details are thought through
Crave feedback to make your work better. Have demonstrated experience working with insights, both qualitative and quantitative
Are good at describing the “why” and showing work to a varied set of stakeholders
Have a “show, don’t tell” approach. Your first instinct is to prototype/visualize things to help push the work forward
Are a systems thinker - you understand how your work connects into the larger digital ecosystem
Have a team first mentality - looking to learn from and inspire others
Strong portfolio of shipped products that show data and user-centric decision making and strategy
Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal and presentation skills

Nice To Haves

Good understanding of baseball statistics and rules is a plus

Responsibilities

Work to reimagine how scores, stats, and data are visualized to our millions of fans
Partner with other Designers and create new features and products focused on the live game experience
Expand focus across the suite of MLB products to support business initiatives but more importantly find new and creative ways to delight the fan
Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Researchers to define problems, shape strategy, and ship user-facing solutions that reimagine how fans will interact with baseball
Conduct your own research and collaborate with others to support foundational and iterative solutions for your designs
Partner with the design systems team to improve and expand the Basepath product design system
Actively participate in design reviews and share your work regularly with peers and product leadership
Lead and mentor other Designers on the team. We are a lean group that overlaps frequently so strong collaboration and communication is important