Yahoo 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.
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
Requirements:
- 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
- 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