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Senior Product Designer

Fanatics

Company Overview
 
Fanatics is the ultimate one-stop sports fan destination that ignites and harnesses the passion of fans and maximizes the presence and reach for preeminent sports partners globally. Leveraging long-standing, often exclusive relationships with more than 900 sports properties, a database of more than 90 million consumers worldwide and a trusted brand name, Fanatics is furthering its innovation across the sports landscape by building the leading global digital sports platform, complete with offerings including e-commerce and licensed merchandise, physical and digital trading cards and collectibles, and online sports betting and iGaming.
 
The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Fanatics Collectibles, a transformative company that is building a new model for the hobby and giving collectors an end-to-end physical and digital collectibles experience; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform.
 
As a market leader with more than 10,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
 
At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support.  We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.   
 

The base salary range for this role is $115,000 per year - $189,000 per year, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award.  

In addition to the base, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, Free Shipt deliveries, and more. We’ll also give you $500 to set up your home office!

For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

As a member of the Fanatics Experience Design team, you’ll contribute to features of significant scope, complexity. You’ll collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary UX, product management and engineering team to frame user needs and behavior, define the optimal user flow and interactions, and ultimately deliver thoughtful and polished design work that is grounded in solid research. You’ll have a unique opportunity to partner cross-functionally to define the strategy and vision for the next phase of our internal tooling—positively impacting the day-to-day of internal employees.

Responsibilities

    • Drive and own key features for the internal tools driving our product experiences, helping to craft the vision for our product by identifying new opportunities and prioritizing enhancements.
    • Working with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, experience researchers, content designers, fellow designers) to drive design executions for internal tools that meet the needs of our internal and external customers.
    • Applying strategic thinking to visualize ideas and concepts and communicate them effectively and compellingly for internal stakeholders, partners and customers
    • Building positive, collaborative relationships with product management, development, marketing, and the broader UX team, as well as continuously "raising the bar" as an effective member of the team.
    • Leading cross-functional collaboration efforts like workshops & design sprints in order to generate and evaluate creative solutions.
    • Leveraging cross-functional leadership skills to help to guide, improve, and implement design and feedback processes.
    • Being an active mentor for more junior designers, and being an active participant in critique, design reviews, and planning.
    • Create detailed user flows, wireframes, etc., communicating UX clearly to relevant teams and the rationale for decisions that were made. Mentor more junior designers in your feature area in the creation of high-quality deliverables that reflect high-quality thinking and decision-making.
    • Writing and maintaining UX documentation on design elements, patterns, layouts, and user flows, including usage guidelines and best practices. Mentor more junior designers in your feature area throughout the process of creating high-quality documentation.
    • Address and design for the entire user experience, including edge-cases and unhappy paths.
    • Track the impact of your work via user feedback and data insights to help the team identify opportunities for continued iteration

Skills and Qualifications

    • 6+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
    • A track record of designing high-quality digital products that delivered results and demonstrate the depth of your design skills; illustrated in a portfolio or case studies.
    • Expert knowledge of the end to end product design process, demonstrating a command of product strategy, distilling the jobs to be done for a given user, journey mapping, information architecture, interaction design, and user interface design.
    • Demonstrated communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills that clearly communicate complex concepts across different audiences and levels of the organization.
    • A proven ability to evaluate the customer and business impact of your design decisions inside and outside your own product area.
    • Deep experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and product research
    • Excellent communication and storytelling skills; you have the ability to help your team and stakeholders understand the “why” behind your design rationale
    • You understand front-end code, the limitations of technology and have a deep understanding of the needs of engineers you’ve worked with previously.
    • You are curious and like to stay in tuned with the latest updates and techniques.
    • You are a teacher and like guiding others on best practices and latest techniques.
    • You are a proactive self-starter, systems thinker, comfortable with taking what is ambiguous and making it tangible by leveraging design thinking techniques.
    • Proficient in Figma as well as other design and prototyping tools.
    • Most be open to occasional travel to office and off-sites
Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud.  Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics or Fanatics Brand email address (this includes @betfanatics.com).  For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.fanaticsinc.com/careers

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

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