Senior Product Designer

Fanatics Betting & Gaming•New York, NY

About The Position

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to drive and own key initiatives within our Sportsbook experience. The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about new technologies and experiences, developing strategies based on the insights of real people, elevating the design team through their craft, and paving the way for innovation.

Requirements

6+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
A track record of designing high-quality digital products that delivered results and demonstrate the depth of your design skills; illustrated in a portfolio or case studies.
Expert knowledge of the end to end product design process, demonstrating a command of product strategy, distilling the jobs to be done for a given user, journey mapping, information architecture, interaction design, and user interface design.
Demonstrated communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills that clearly communicate complex concepts across different audiences and levels of the organization.
A proven ability to evaluate the customer and business impact of your design decisions inside and outside your own product area.
Deep experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and product research
Excellent communication and storytelling skills; you have the ability to help your team and stakeholders understand the “why” behind your design rationale
You understand front-end code, the limitations of technology and have a deep understanding of the needs of engineers you’ve worked with previously.
You are curious and like to stay in tuned with the latest updates and techniques.
You are a teacher and like guiding others on best practices and latest techniques.
You are a proactive self-starter, systems thinker, comfortable with taking what is ambiguous and making it tangible by leveraging design thinking techniques.
Proficient in Figma as well as other design and prototyping tools.

Responsibilities

Drive and own key features within our Sportsbook product experiences, helping to craft the vision for our product by identifying new opportunities and prioritizing enhancements.
Working with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, experience researchers, and fellow designers) to drive design executions that meet the needs of our customers.
Applying strategic thinking to visualize ideas and concepts and communicate them effectively and compellingly for internal stakeholders, partners and customers.
Building positive, collaborative relationships with product management, development, marketing, and the broader UX team, as well as continuously "raising the bar" as an effective member of the team.
Leading cross-functional collaboration efforts like workshops & design sprints in order to generate and evaluate creative solutions.
Leveraging cross-functional leadership skills to help to guide, improve, and implement design and feedback processes.
Being an active mentor for more junior designers, and being an active participant in critique, design reviews, and planning.
Create detailed user flows, wireframes, etc., communicating UX clearly to relevant teams and the rationale for decisions that were made. Mentor more junior designers in your feature area in the creation of high-quality deliverables that reflect high-quality thinking and decision-making.
Writing and maintaining UX documentation on design elements, patterns, layouts, and user flows, including usage guidelines and best practices. Mentor more junior designers in your feature area throughout the process of creating high-quality documentation.
Address and design for the entire user experience, including edge-cases and unhappy paths.
Track the impact of your work via user feedback and data insights to help the team identify opportunities for continued iteration