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 a team of designers, focusing on Ads, Trust/Safety, and Growth experiences. This role requires strong leadership, collaboration, and user research skills. You'll champion product direction, identify UX opportunities, and break down large problems into manageable tasks. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of relevant experience and a passion for sports. GameChanger offers a remote-first work environment with excellent benefits.

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
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology
• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable
• 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
• Family building benefits offered through Progyny
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability
• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match
• Generous parental leave
• DICK’S Sporting Goods & their family of brands teammate discount