About the position
GameChanger by DICK’S Sporting Goods works to connect families via live video streaming of games, scorekeeping and team communication tools for more than half a million teams. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City intent on improving youth sports for all and developing our own teammates. We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports. As a Product Designer, you’ll partner with cross-functional teams to design and ship high-impact features across GameChanger’s platform. You’ll report to the Product Design Manager and work closely with teammates in product, engineering, and marketing to bring thoughtful, scalable experiences to life.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design process and ship features across mobile and web platforms.
- Partner with cross-functional peers to influence the product through a user-centered approach.
- Work iteratively to define problems and quickly find solutions.
- Speak with customers frequently, collect insights, test assumptions, and translate research takeaways into meaningful outcomes.
- Facilitate design sprints and workshops to develop high-quality solutions.
- Craft intuitive design flows, sketches, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI for mobile and web.
- Help evolve and grow the design practice at GameChanger.
- Contribute to our design system, be vocal in design critiques, share inspirational resources, and aid in brainstorms.
- Question the status quo and advocate for change.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree.
- 3 - 5 years of experience designing user-centered experiences, with at least 3 years in startup environments.
- Experience designing and shipping native iOS and Android apps.
- Strong grasp of platform conventions and nuances.
- Ability to take large problems and break them down into bite-sized measurable chunks.
- Skilled at advocating for design by articulating and presenting the rationale behind proposed ideas.
- Ability to own the design process from start to finish, from gathering first-hand user research to QA’ing builds before they are shipped.
- Results focused and constantly looking for ways to improve the consumer experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in user research by conducting interviews, running usability tests, and digging into behavioral data.
- Portfolio showcasing process, collaboration, and impact with at least two detailed case studies.
Benefits
- Work remotely throughout the US or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Paid volunteer opportunities.
- Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years.
- WFH stipend - $500 annually.
- Learning stipend - $500 annually.
- Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
- Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
- Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans with an immediate company match.
- Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
- Disability leave - short-term and long-term disability.
- Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.
