VP, Product Design (Remote)

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Responsibilities

Requirements

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.

This is a remote-based role requiring some regular travel.