Yahoo · 20 hours ago
Sr. Product Designer, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$128K/yr - $267K/yr
5+ years expYahoo is a leading destination for sports news and fantasy games, and they are seeking a talented Sr. Product Designer to enhance their Fantasy Sports platform. The role involves collaborating with product and engineering teams to create engaging and user-centric designs that impact millions of players.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
5-7 years of experience designing consumer-facing products, with an emphasis on mobile app design
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
Exploratory, creative mindset, and adept in adapting ideas to changing circumstances and taking risks
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
Proactive in asking questions, gathering information and context, and helping to define requirements in close collaboration with Product and Engineering
Skilled in design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
Design systematically: account for dependencies and ways that styles, patterns, and hierarchies fit into the broader Sports, Yahoo, and/or industry ecosystems
Positive, engaged contributor to team culture
Use generative AI in your process to level up your thinking, design process and speed
Preferred
Experience playing Fantasy sports, and/or are interested in Fantasy sports
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.)
Aptitude or experience in running your own user research or usability studies
Previous experience in game design
Benefits
Healthcare
A great 401k
Backup childcare
Education stipends
Much (much) more
Company
Yahoo
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.8MKey Investors
SoftBank GroupSequoia Capital
2021-05-03Acquired
1996-04-12IPO
1995-11-30Series B· $4.8M
Leadership Team
Monica Vorn Mijaleski
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Gupta
SVP Finance / Chief Treasury Officer
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