Staff Product Designer

Sits within Bleacher Report, a leading digital destination for next-generation sports fans that creates cross-platform experiences at the intersection of sports, culture, and real-time storytelling across its app, website, and social channels. Reporting to the Director, Product Design, the position helps shape the future of sports fandom across digital products and platforms. It is responsible for helping drive product vision, influencing strategy, and creating alignment across multiple teams, platforms, and customer journeys.

• Lead highly complex, cross-functional initiatives that span multiple products, platforms, and customer experiences.
• Partner closely with Design Operations, Product Managers, Engineers, User Researchers, and Business Stakeholders to define and deliver customer-centred solutions.
• Translate customer insights, business objectives, and technical constraints into intuitive and engaging experiences.
• Create workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that clearly communicate product direction and intent.
• Leverage customer research, analytics, experimentation, and market insights to inform design decisions.
• Contribute to and evolve design systems, patterns, and reusable components that improve consistency and scalability.
• Apply systems thinking to understand and improve experiences across the broader sports fan ecosystem.
• Participate in roadmap discussions and collaborate across teams to identify opportunities to improve customer engagement and business outcomes and ensure high-quality execution and delivery.
• Mentor and support other designers through feedback, collaboration, and design critique, helping elevate design quality and raise the bar for UX design and execution.
• Explore emerging technologies, including AI-powered experiences and AI-assisted workflows, to improve both customer experiences and team effectiveness.

• 8+ years of experience designing digital consumer products and experiences.
• Proven track record leading complex, ambiguous, and strategically important initiatives.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work and customer-centred problem solving.
• Experience influencing product strategy and driving alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leveraging research, customer insights, analytics, and experimentation to shape product direction.
• Ability to balance long-term vision with practical execution.
• Deep knowledge of sports and strong familiarity with digital sports products.
• Clear understanding of sports audience behaviours, fandom, and live and creator content consumption patterns.

• Experience with AI-native products, AI-powered experiences, personalisation systems, or emerging technologies.
• Demonstrated success mentoring and developing designers.
• Experience designing large-scale consumer platforms, ecosystems, or multi-product experiences.
• Experience in sports, media, entertainment, streaming, gaming, or consumer technology.
• Experience designing for live sports, highlights, second-screen, stats, community, or socially driven fan experiences.
• Experience with motion, prototyping, or storytelling tools that help bring concepts to life.
• Strong understanding of personalisation, notifications, content discovery, or fan engagement patterns.
• Passion for sports and strong instincts for what resonates with distinct fan bases and communities.

• Actual salaries will vary based on job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, external market data, internal equity, skill set, experience, training, education, and/or performance.
• Base pay is one component of the total compensation package; other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards.

• Health insurance coverage
• Employee wellness program
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays and sick time and vacation