Senior Product Designer - Sportsbook

Hard Rock Digital

49d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hard Rock Digital is building a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a team passionate about learning, operating, and creating innovative products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we always act authentically. Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hard Rock Digital taps into a brand known worldwide as a leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re bringing that legacy into the digital space. We’re looking for a passionate Senior Product Designer to shape end-to-end user experiences for our online and mobile sportsbook. In this role, you’ll solve complex interaction problems across discovery, concepting, and execution—leveraging AI-enabled workflows and user insights to build intuitive, high-impact designs. We're looking for a collaborative, detail-oriented advocate for the user who thrives in a fast-paced environment. This role requires a strong understanding of sports betting, interaction design, systems thinking, and a collaborative approach to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing consumer-facing, gaming, sports, or streaming media products.
Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work across multiple touchpoints.
Deep understanding of systems thinking, design systems, and core interaction design principles (flows, micro-interactions, user flows, layout, visual balance, and navigation systems, etc.).
Expertise in creating high-fidelity prototypes to communicate complex ideas and gather feedback.
Understanding user research methodologies, participating in user research, and synthesizing insights to drive design decisions.
Proven track record of working on complex, cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders in a remote environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and trade-offs.
A collaborative, team-first growth mindset with a passion for continuous learning.
A desire to deeply understand the "why" before defining the "how" and use it to develop a strategic product design perspective.
A strong growth mindset and comfortability with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

Create interaction patterns, user flows, wireframes, and accessible, high-fidelity cross-platform designs.
Rapidly build prototypes to communicate ideas, gather feedback, and validate solutions.
Articulate the tradeoffs and opportunities in design decisions, suggesting multiple paths forward.
Partner with product & engineering to communicate designs and rationale effectively.
Collaborate proactively to navigate and resolve technical and user experience dependencies.
Refine designs using data, feedback, usability insights, and experimentation results.
Conduct usability testing to inform design decisions and ensure a user-centered approach.
Ensure all designs adhere to accessibility standards and guidelines.
Actively using AI as part of your design process, from ideation through delivery, to work efficiently and more creatively.
Contribute ideas on how AI can enhance both player experiences and internal design workflows.
Experience using tools such as Codex and/or Claude Code to enhance and drive ideation through AI tooling.
Promote user-centered and responsible gaming design best practices.
Apply domain knowledge to influence design decisions, elevate quality, and anticipate user expectations.