Product Design Manager

Summary

Join GameChanger as a Product Design Manager and lead the design of consumer-focused products connecting fans to youth sports. You will manage and develop a team of designers, champion product direction, and collaborate on cross-product initiatives. This role requires 5+ years of relevant experience in product design at a tech company, experience leading designers, and strong communication skills. You'll be responsible for advocating for design excellence, measuring results, and identifying strategic UX opportunities. GameChanger offers a remote-first work environment with various benefits, including unlimited vacation, a WFH stipend, full health benefits, and generous parental leave.

Requirements

• Have an understanding and appreciation of sports
• Have experience designing for consumers
• Have 5+ years of relevant product design experience at a tech or product-driven company
• Excel at motivating and inspiring people to do their best work
• Have experience leading a group of designers
• Excel at both written and spoken communication internally & across departments
• Your best work is done in a highly collaborative way
• Have the ability to take large problems and break them down into bite-sized measurable chunks
• Have experience conducting user research, facilitating user interviews and user tests, digging through behavioral data, and synthesizing findings to identify trends and make recommendations
• Advocate for design by articulating and presenting the rationale behind your ideas
• Care about moving your team forward and look for ways to positively impact the team, not just the product

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
• In partnership with your product peers, 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
• Work with other product design managers, staff, and product designers to 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
• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable
• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability
• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match
• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing
• Generous parental leave
• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount