Underdog Fantasy is hiring a
Senior Manager, Product Design

Summary

Join Underdog, a fast-growing sports gaming company that builds innovative games and products for American sports fans. As a Senior Manager, you'll be responsible for core product offerings in accounts, payments, and cohesion, managing a team of product designers, and driving the end-to-end design process. The opportunity is massive with a nearly $500 million valuation and growth not slowing down.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Product Design/Creative experience, including 5+ years of management experience leading and inspiring teams of designers
• Strong portfolio showcasing a range of projects demonstrating your design process, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Responsible for our core product offerings in accounts, payments and cohesion
• Build brand-specific consumer experiences, create cohesive user journeys within a product family, partner across Product, Engineering and other business partners, and work with Design team members directing rapid visual concepts and producing high fidelity visual design
• Manage in a true 0-to-1 product environment. Ideate, create, grow, and ship products at scale for sports fans
• Provide day-to-day design leadership that builds a shared understanding of the complete user-centric intersection of design, content, technology and business
• Be a design activator, working to deliver a vision and strategy that balances revolutionary projects along with a plan for innovative, iterative updates to realize a more extensive vision
• Partner with a variety of teams, inspiring confidence that your team will deliver compelling user experiences that are informed, cohesive, and inclusive
• Lead a team of product designers with various expertise, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to foster their growth and development
• Drive the end-to-end design process, from concept ideation and wireframing to high-fidelity prototyping and user testing, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience across all platforms
• Advocate for the needs and preferences of our diverse user base data-driven insights to inform design decisions
• Effectively communicate design concepts, rationale, and trade-offs to stakeholders at all levels, fostering a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in visual design and/or art direction
• Experience in fantasy sports and/or sports betting

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents