Assoc Prod Designer

As a member of the Fanatics Betting & Gaming XD team, you’ll drive and own key initiatives within our Sportsbook and Casino experiences. You’ll collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary XD, product management, and engineering squad to frame user needs and behavior, define optimal user flows and interactions, and ultimately deliver thoughtful and polished experiences. The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about new technologies and an innovator who can elevate the design team through their craft.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Drive and contribute to features within our Sportsbook and Casino product experiences, helping to craft the vision for our product by identifying new opportunities and prioritizing enhancements.
• Working with cross-functional teams (engineering, product managers, experienced researchers, content designers, fellow designers) to drive design vision and strategy that meets the needs of our customers.
• Applying strategic thinking to visualize ideas and concepts and communicate them effectively and compellingly for internal stakeholders, partners and customers.
• Building positive, collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners and the broader UX team, as well as continuously "raising the bar" as an effective member of the team.
• Leveraging cross-functional skills to help to guide, improve, and implement design and feedback processes.
• Being an active participant in critique, design reviews, and planning.
• Create detailed user flows, wireframes, etc., communicating UX clearly to relevant teams and the rationale for decisions that were made.
• Writing and maintaining UX documentation on design elements, patterns, layouts, and user flows, including usage guidelines and best practices.
• Address and design for the entire user experience, including edge-cases and unhappy paths.
• Track the impact of your work via user feedback and data insights to help the team identify opportunities for continued iteration.
  

What You Bring to the Role

• 2+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
• A track record of designing high-quality digital products that delivered results and demonstrate the depth of your design skills; illustrated in a portfolio or case studies.
• Knowledge of the end to end product design process, demonstrating a command of product strategy, distilling the jobs to be done for a given user, journey mapping, information architecture, interaction design, and user interface design.
• Demonstrated communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills that clearly communicate complex concepts across different audiences and levels of the organization.
• A proven ability to evaluate the customer and business impact of your design decisions inside and outside your own product area.
• Experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and product research.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills; you have the ability to help your team and stakeholders understand the “why” behind your design rationale.
• You understand front-end code, the limitations of technology and have a deep understanding of the needs of engineers you’ve worked with previously.
• You are curious and like to stay in tuned with the latest updates and techniques.
• You are a teacher and like guiding others on best practices and latest techniques.
• You are a proactive self-starter, systems thinker, comfortable with taking what is ambiguous and making it tangible by leveraging design thinking techniques.
• Proficient in Figma as well as other design and prototyping tools.

ABOUT US

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores. 

As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting and online gaming business of Fanatics. In August 2023, Fanatics Betting and Gaming closed on the operating businesses of PointsBet USA in eight states to accelerate its plans in the gaming space with additional state closings to continue throughout the year.  Using a two-brand approach that features Fanatics Sportsbook and PointsBet, a Fanatics Experience, Fanatics Betting and Gaming now operates in 11 states for legal sports betting, four states for online casino and 42 states for horse racing (ADW). The Fanatics Sportsbook is the most rewarding online sportsbook with up to 5% back in FanCash on every bet and makes being a fan easy with fast signup, easy betting, transparent withdrawals, industry leading search functionality and a curated Discover page with the sports and bets that matter most to a customer. The Fanatics Sportsbook has two retail locations in Ohio and one location in Maryland – all connected to a pro sports team’s stadium.Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting and online gaming business of Fanatics. In August 2023, Fanatics Betting and Gaming closed on the operating businesses of PointsBet USA in eight states to accelerate its plans in the gaming space with additional state closings to continue throughout the year.  Using a two-brand approach that features Fanatics Sportsbook and PointsBet, a Fanatics Experience, Fanatics Betting and Gaming now operates in 11 states for legal sports betting, four states for online casino and 42 states for horse racing (ADW). The Fanatics Sportsbook is the most rewarding online sportsbook with up to 5% back in FanCash on every bet and makes being a fan easy with fast signup, easy betting, transparent withdrawals, industry leading search functionality and a curated Discover page with the sports and bets that matter most to a customer. The Fanatics Sportsbook has two retail locations in Ohio and one location in Maryland – all connected to a pro sports team’s stadium.Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting and online gaming business of Fanatics. In August 2023, Fanatics Betting and Gaming closed on the operating businesses of PointsBet USA in eight states to accelerate its plans in the gaming space with additional state closings to continue throughout the year.  Using a two-brand approach that features Fanatics Sportsbook and PointsBet, a Fanatics Experience, Fanatics Betting and Gaming now operates in 11 states for legal sports betting, four states for online casino and 42 states for horse racing (ADW). The Fanatics Sportsbook is the most rewarding online sportsbook with up to 5% back in FanCash on every bet and makes being a fan easy with fast signup, easy betting, transparent withdrawals, industry leading search functionality and a curated Discover page with the sports and bets that matter most to a customer. The Fanatics Sportsbook has two retail locations in Ohio and one location in Maryland – all connected to a pro sports team’s stadium.

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