Senior Product Designer - Interactivity: Sponsorships (Remote)

About Us
The Athletic is a direct-to-consumer digital sports media company committed to helping subscribers experience storytelling in a whole new way. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, The Athletic has over 500 full-time employees and covers more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams in the US, Canada and the UK. The Athletic’s newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth articles along with more than 120 podcasts and premium video content. The Athletic is a remote-friendly company as we have offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Melbourne. About The Role Our product mission is to be the best place on earth for sports fans. We already provide an unrivaled breadth and depth of sports coverage. We are now looking for a product designer who can help us drive strategic partnerships around new and existing features in the product. As a Sr. Product Designer on the Interactivity team, you will be helping lead cross-functional initiatives to pitch external partners on innovative product integrations across both web and app. There’s ample opportunity here for a product designer that thrives in a blue-sky environment and wishes to help pioneer a visual design language as well as company principles around these initiatives.

Responsibilities

Work across multiple cross-functional teams, partnering with Product Managers, Engineers, Content Operations, SEO Strategists, and Product Analysts to take concepts from ideation to execution. 

Pitch and present ideas both internally to The Athletic’s design studio and externally to cross-functional partners and potential clients.

Understand the competitive environment and stay on top of great user experiences, especially within sports media and scores apps.

Collaborate with the entire Design Studio to both implement and identify opportunities to bolster sponsorship strategy.

Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready design deliverables.

Work with engineers to ensure design quality and consistency across the user experience.

Support high-level product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for the most important internal and external user needs.

Requirements

5-7 years of experience working as a designer or art director for a consumer/content driven product design experience or digital agency.

Expertise in both web and mobile applications.

Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills, as exemplified in an online portfolio or presentation.

Experience conceptualizing high level strategies quickly and with meticulous attention to detail.

Experience seeing work with engineers, operations, executives and vendors with a high standard of quality and collaboration.

Ability to manage your time across several workstreams.

An eagerness to try new things, innovate and learn - and a willingness to learn from mistakes.

Enthusiasm for being part of a multidisciplinary design studio and a collaborative design process.

Expert Figma skills, knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.

Experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions.

Ability to draft micro-interactions and full scale product animations in After Effects.