Outside Interactive, Inc. is the premier hub for active lifestyle enthusiasts, offering best-in-class content and experiences. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer for the MapMy platform to set the design vision and define AI-accelerated design practices, while leading end-to-end design across mobile and web experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end design across MapMy's mobile (iOS/Android) and web experiences, owning the highest-leverage surfaces from problem framing through delivery
- Define and evolve an AI-accelerated design practice, using tools like Claude, Cursor, and v0 as a core part of daily workflow for ideation, prototyping, and iteration
- Build functional, interactive prototypes quickly to validate concepts with real users and stakeholders
- Own the MapMy design system and component library, raising consistency and quality across the product suite
- Drive the research agenda in partnership with Product — leading interviews, usability tests, and competitive analysis to ground decisions in real user needs
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership to align design strategy with business goals
- Mentor mid-level and junior designers, lead design reviews, and raise the craft bar across the team
- Define design success metrics and lead post-launch analysis using A/B results, funnel data, and qualitative feedback
- Deliver polished design specs, redlines, and asset handoffs — supplemented with interactive prototypes when they tell the story better
- Set the visual, interaction, and motion standards for MapMy, ensuring all work meets WCAG accessibility guidelines
Requirements:
- 7+ years shipping consumer-facing mobile or web products, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design leadership from problem framing through shipped outcomes
- Expert Figma proficiency and fluent, daily use of AI tools in your design workflow
- Deep understanding of iOS, Android, and responsive web design principles
- Track record of collaborating with senior Product, Engineering, and Data leaders in an agile environment, with experience mentoring designers
- Strong communicator who can articulate design rationale and tradeoffs to executive and cross-functional audiences
- Mastery of typography, color, layout, and interaction design, with experience building or scaling design systems
- Ability to build functional prototypes using AI code-generation tools — you can get a working demo in front of users on your own
- Sets direction in ambiguity, defaults to showing over telling, and brings conviction and taste to what gets built
- Curious, experimental, and energized by new tools — low ego, high standards
- Background in fitness, health, or GPS/mapping
- Familiarity with motion design tools
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS
- Experience with advanced research methods and data-informed design practices