Product Design Manager

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Hudl

πŸ’΅ $86k-$143k
πŸ“Remote - United States

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Summary

Join Hudl as a Product Design Manager and lead the design of consumer-focused products for youth and high school sports fans. You will focus on customer needs through user research, manage and mentor a team of designers, and craft compelling design concepts. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver exceptional digital user experiences. This role requires strong communication, management, and prototyping skills, along with proficiency in design software. Hudl offers a flexible work environment, career growth opportunities, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive culture.

Requirements

  • Strong communicator. Thrive in a collaborative environment that fosters open and honest communication. Have excellent presentation skills and can confidently sell ideas based on solid rationale and objectives from cross-functional teams. Be comfortable being respectfully blunt when giving and receiving feedback
  • Management track record. Have led at least one designer as a direct report. Mentorship experience, formal or informal, will also be taken into consideration
  • Iterative prototyping skills. Be proficient at using low and high fidelity prototyping tools and wireframing techniques based on the needs of the project
  • A problem-solver. Have the ability to think critically and holistically about user interactions, and can address complex design challenges to provide innovative solutions that factor in technical, business and design constraints
  • Organizational skills. Be able to assess the appropriate level of design and research necessary to achieve your goals, with a plan to reach final deliverables
  • Technical proficiency. Have used modern component-based design software (e.g., Figma and Adobe Creative suite) and tools like Miro to workshop concepts and drive alignment with remote stakeholders
  • A robust portfolio. Be able to showcase a variety of projects that demonstrate your expertise in UX design, including examples of user flows, wireframes, prototypes and final design solutions

Responsibilities

  • Focus on the customer. Shape, conduct and translate user research to help the team understand needs beyond what users say they want, digging deeper into the β€œwhy” behind user feedback. Create actionable insights that will help drive physical and digital product experience strategy and design
  • Be a coach. Manage and professionally develop a small team of exceptional designers working in the same space. Mentor your designers on both soft and hard skills, helping them develop and achieve career goals
  • Be a visual and verbal storyteller. Craft and communicate compelling concepts that are forward-facing, differentiated, and relevant to customer and business needs
  • Add clarity to ambiguous problem spaces. Tease out the important characteristics of users, their environments and the market’s expectations to support prioritized and intuitive experiences
  • Collaborate. By forming close partnerships with multi-disciplinary counterparts in Engineering, Product, Design, Scrum and Quality, help define requirements and deliver clear and focused digital user experiences
  • Design process, quality and delivery. Advocate for tactility, accessibility, customer needs and design excellence, all as you shepherd your project to release. After delivering on-time solutions, measure and own the results of how well those solutions address design and product needs

Preferred Qualifications

  • Research and insights experience. Have planned and conducted qualitative and quantitative user research, and know how to translate insights into actionable product and design outcomes. Be adept at using various research methodologies to optimize the end user experience
  • A sports enthusiast. Understand the unique challenges and opportunities within the sports technology industry
  • Growth mindset. Be committed to staying up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies and design best practices, and have a strong desire to continuously learn and evolve

Benefits

  • Champion work-life harmony. Flexibility in work life (e.g., flexible vacation time, company-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) days, remote work options and more) to enjoy personal life
  • Guarantee autonomy. Open, honest culture and trust from day one. Team support, ownership of work, and agency to try new ideas
  • Encourage career growth. Resources and opportunities for professional development
  • Provide an environment to help you succeed. Investment in offices and providing tech stack and hardware to do best work, whether in office or remotely
  • Support your mental and physical health. Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups and fitness partner Peerfit
  • Cover your medical insurance. Multiple plans to pick from, including vision, dental, fertility healthcare and family forming benefits
  • Contribute to your 401(K). Matching up to 4% of own contribution

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