Senior Product Designer - Sportsbook

Hard Rock Digital is building online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming products for millions of consumers. The Senior Product Designer will shape end-to-end user experiences for online and mobile sportsbook products by solving complex interaction problems, creating intuitive designs, and leveraging AI-enabled workflows and user insights. The role collaborates with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to deliver accessible, user-centered experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Create interaction patterns, user flows, wireframes, and accessible, high-fidelity cross-platform designs
• Rapidly build prototypes to communicate ideas, gather feedback, and validate solutions
• Articulate the tradeoffs and opportunities in design decisions, suggesting multiple paths forward
• Partner with product & engineering to communicate designs and rationale effectively
• Collaborate proactively to navigate and resolve technical and user experience dependencies
• Refine designs using data, feedback, usability insights, and experimentation results
• Conduct usability testing to inform design decisions and ensure a user-centered approach
• Ensure all designs adhere to accessibility standards and guidelines
• Actively using AI as part of your design process, from ideation through delivery, to work efficiently and more creatively
• Contribute ideas on how AI can enhance both player experiences and internal design workflows
• Experience using tools such as Codex and/or Claude Code to enhance and drive ideation through AI tooling
• Promote user-centered and responsible gaming design best practices
• Apply domain knowledge to influence design decisions, elevate quality, and anticipate user expectations

Requirements:

• Remote in the UK or US Eastern Time Zone (EST), or Hybrid in our Austin, TX office
• This role requires a strong understanding of sports betting, interaction design, systems thinking, and a collaborative approach to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• 5+ years of experience designing consumer-facing, gaming, sports, or streaming media products
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work across multiple touchpoints
• Deep understanding of systems thinking, design systems, and core interaction design principles (flows, micro-interactions, user flows, layout, visual balance, and navigation systems, etc.)
• Expertise in creating high-fidelity prototypes to communicate complex ideas and gather feedback
• Understanding user research methodologies, participating in user research, and synthesizing insights to drive design decisions
• Proven track record of working on complex, cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders in a remote environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and trade-offs
• A collaborative, team-first growth mindset with a passion for continuous learning
• A desire to deeply understand the "why" before defining the "how" and use it to develop a strategic product design perspective
• A strong growth mindset and comfortability with ambiguity
• Our preferred location is the UK