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About the role
The Athletic is redefining what a sports app is. We need a design leader who is hands-on, opinionated, and genuinely obsessed with sports, with a clear vision for what the "essential sports app" becomes over the next several years. This role is 100% remote for candidates based in the United States or Canada.
What they're looking for
- Someone who is a sports fan first, who uses the product, has opinions about it, and lets that passion show up in the work
- A design leader with a track record of hands-on craft at senior levels. We want to see recent, personal work
- Experience leading a design org through a step-change in how it works, ideally involving AI tooling and workflow, at a company shipping consumer product at scale
- Strong, well-argued opinions about what makes a sports product, or a comparable habit-forming consumer product, great, along with the conviction to defend them in a room of product and engineering leaders
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
- Nice to have: experience starting or running your own company or side project
More about this role
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
The Athletic is redefining what a sports app is. We need a design leader who is hands-on, opinionated, and genuinely obsessed with sports, with a clear vision for what the "essential sports app" becomes over the next several years.
This role is reporting into our Chief Product Officer.
This role is 100% remote for candidates based in the United States or Canada.
- Product vision and prototyping the future. We want working prototypes and opinionated concepts that demonstrate what the next-generation sports app looks like, and where the biggest opportunity is for us to lead. You own the process and the design output behind ongoing strategic visioning with cross-functional leadership, driving toward decisions the exec team rallies behind.
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