Senior Product Designer

Yahoo Sports is one of the internet’s leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. We produce insightful content across multiple platforms and curate quality coverage from around the web to inform and entertain fans. We're an original fantasy sports pioneer, with a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. And as one of the most-visited sports platforms on the internet, we're one of the best places for brands to reach fans.

We are currently seeking a talented and experienced Sr. Product Designer to join our team and drive the user experience for our popular Fantasy Sports platform.

As a Sr. Product Designer, you will have the opportunity to work with a passionate and innovative team to create engaging and intuitive designs that will impact millions of Fantasy players worldwide. If you have a passion for designing user-centric products, a strong understanding of user-centered design principles, and a desire to work on a high-visibility product in the sports and gaming industry, we want to hear from you!

In this role, you will:

• Overall, collaborate closely with product and engineering to translate ideas into polished, well-crafted, visually exciting and dynamic mobile-first experiences.

• Collaborate with the product team to define and clarify requirements and overall experience strategy, leveraging early stage UX methods and low fidelity wireframes. 

• Prototype at high fidelity to explore concepts, validate hypotheses, and communicate design intent effectively.

• Contribute to design direction on strategically important initiatives, partnering with other senior designers, design leadership, and product management.

• Proactively identify opportunities for experience upgrades and design improvements, and work with product and engineering to ship those improvements.

• Gather insights, synthesize findings, and refine UX strategy and design approaches based on evidence, quantitative trends, and user feedback.

• Regularly present design work with clarity and confidence, grounding decisions in user needs and business priorities.

• Guide feedback conversations and incorporate input in ways that strengthen the work while preserving design intent.

• Regularly use and contribute to design systems and defining best practices. 

• Uphold and raise our visual and experience quality bar for experiences that span app, mobile web, and desktop. 

Apply if you have:

• Have 5-7 years of experience designing consumer-facing products, with an emphasis on mobile app design.

• Are well-versed in a variety of design methods to clarify requirements and overall experience strategy (e.g. journey mapping, defining user stories and jobs to be done, etc.)

• Regularly use an iterative design process, including discovery (user needs, business requirements, and industry best practices), low fidelity design, high fidelity design, interactive prototype development, and post-launch validation.

• Have an exploratory, creative mindset, and are adept in adapting ideas to changing circumstances and taking risks. 

• Are thorough in reviewing work and conduct regular quality checks and reviews with your manager, the design team, team leadership, and engineering to ensure a flawless final product.

• Manage your work and your process with autonomy and have a knack for moving work forward, and keep your momentum high. You communicate updates, challenges, and blockers to your manager and project team.

• Are proactive in asking questions, gathering information and context, and helping to define requirements in close collaboration with Product and Engineering. 

• Are skilled in design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

• Design systematically: you account for dependencies and ways that styles, patterns, and hierarchies fit into the broader Sports, Yahoo, and/or industry ecosystems. 

• Are a positive, engaged contributor to team culture.

• Use generative AI in your process to level up your thinking, design process and speed.

It's highly preferred if you have:

• Have experience playing Fantasy sports, and/or are interested in Fantasy sports.

• Have one or more “spikes” in design specialties that help uplift the quality and experience of Yahoo Fantasy (graphic/visual design, motion design, product illustration, etc.).

• Have an aptitude or experience in running your own user research or usability studies.

• Have previous experience in game design

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoopolicies;exercising sound judgment;working effectively, safely and inclusively with others;exhibiting trustworthinessandmeeting expectations;and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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