Media, Broadcast & Content
VP, Product Design (Remote)
Senior Level
United Statesremote
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The Athletic is redefining what a sports app is and is seeking a design leader who is hands-on, opinionated and genuinely obsessed with sports, with a clear vision for what the essential sports app becomes over the next several years. The role reports into the Chief Product Officer and forms part of The Athletic's leadership team, working alongside engineering, product, data, marketing and commercial leads. It is 100% remote for candidates based in the United States or Canada.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the process and design output behind ongoing strategic visioning with cross-functional leadership, producing working prototypes and opinionated concepts that show what the next-generation sports app looks like and where the biggest opportunity to lead lies.
- Bring informed, data-backed points of view to product planning and help design shape where the product goes.
- Partner directly with the VP Engineering, the VP Data and the Chief Product Officer on the business priorities and metrics that matter, ensuring design has a seat at the table.
- Stay in the work day to day, reviewing flows, working in Figma and prototyping directly alongside the design team.
- Set the direction for how design operates in an AI-native world, covering tools, workflows and team structure so that velocity and craft rise together.
- Build, coach and manage a design organisation of approximately 10 people, with clear accountability for what each team and person delivers.
- Work hand in hand with other leads across engineering, product, data, marketing and commercial as part of the company's leadership team, going beyond a purely design remit.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- A sports fan who uses the product, has opinions about it and lets that passion show up in the work.
- A design leader with a track record of hands-on craft at senior levels, evidenced by recent, personal work.
- Experience leading a design organisation through a step-change in how it works, ideally involving AI tooling and workflow, at a company shipping consumer product at scale.
- Strong, well-argued opinions about what makes a sports product, or a comparable habit-forming consumer product, great, along with the conviction to defend them in a room of product and engineering leaders.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity.
Preferred Skills
- Experience starting or running your own company or side project.
Workplace
- 100% remote for candidates based in the United States or Canada.
- Requires some regular travel.
Benefits & Perks
- Dependent on role, eligibility for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
- Medical, dental and vision benefits.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s).
- Company-matching 401(k) plan.
- Paid vacation and paid sick days.
- Paid parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programmes.
The Application Process
Applicants are asked to submit their own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.
- Submit your own work, rather than content generated by GenAI tools, throughout the application and interview process.
- Candidates for a technical role will be told which specific tools they are permitted to use for their technical assessment.
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