Sr. Product Designer, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports

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