Responsibilities
- Design and ship high-quality experiences that drive user, product, and business impact. You dive in to define and solve significantly complex, unscoped problems that set the benchmark for product design quality.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, partnering with Product Managers, Engineers, Content Operations, SEO Strategists, Product Analysts, and fellow designers to lead concepts from ideation to execution.
- Support and direct product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for the most important user needs.
- Lead larger-scale strategic and vision-oriented projects across the team.
- Lead and conduct design and user research as necessary.
- Contribute to the Product Design team through mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and elevating our Design System.
- Own and lead Product Design cultural events and rituals.
- Continually identify new ways to improve both your work and the work of the discipline and team overall, including through the use of new tooling and AI.
- Understand the competitive environment of design and our product. Stay on top of new technologies (like AI) and innovative user experiences, especially within sports apps, sports media, and news related products.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- a company-matching 401(k) plan
- paid vacation
- paid sick days
- paid parental leave
- tuition reimbursement
- professional development programs
Team
Team size: 500+. Structure: newsroom
Additional Information
- For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
- For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.
- We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process. If you are a candidate for a technical role, we will let you know what specific tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.
- The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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