Lead Product Designer

FanDuel; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary and bonus package

Pension

Private healthcare

Share save scheme

Flexible working

Holiday policy

Job summary

FanDuel is seeking a Lead Product Designer in the United States to lead large, ambiguous design initiatives across multiple teams. You will connect design decisions to measurable outcomes and partner with Product, Engineering, Insights, and leadership to steer direction and strategy.

You will mentor designers, elevate design quality, and advance inclusive, user-centered practices while shaping product direction with data, research, and AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience shaping and designing complex digital experiences in cross-functional environments.
• Strong portfolio showing craft, product thinking, systems thinking, measurable customer impact and design leadership.
• Deep expertise in user-centered design methodologies, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, accessibility, prototyping, design systems, and product strategy.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional initiatives without formal authority.
• Experience using qualitative research, quantitative data, and experimentation to shape product strategy and evaluate outcomes.
• Ability to coach designers, raise design quality, and influence design practice beyond individual projects.
• Judgment applying AI-assisted workflows and validating outputs across discovery, ideation, research synthesis, prototyping, documentation, and execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, ambiguous product initiatives spanning multiple teams, journeys, and priorities.
• Connect design decisions to measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Build trusted partnerships with Product, Engineering, Insights, and leadership to inform product direction and strategy.
• Balance customer needs, business priorities, technical constraints, compliance, and delivery considerations.
• Guide product decisions through evidence-based design, research, analytics, and experimentation insights.
• Raise the quality bar across interaction design, visual design, accessibility, and systems thinking.
• Drive consistency across experiences while knowing when innovation is appropriate.
• Champion accessible, inclusive, user-centered design practices.
• Establish and continuously improve AI-assisted design workflows that increase quality, speed, and consistency.
• Ensure AI work remains grounded in customer insight, system guidance, business context, and responsible human judgment.
• Coach and mentor designers to raise capability and overall team quality.

Skills

Product design leadership

Systems thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

User-centered design

AI-assisted design

React Native familiarity

JavaScript/Typescript familiarity

Tools

React Native

JavaScript

TypeScript

Job description

The Position

Our roster has an opening with your name on it

As a Lead Product Designer at FanDuel, you are a trusted design leaderresponsible forraising design quality and driving meaningfulcustomerimpact across multiple teams or product areas.

You combine exceptional craft, strategic thinking, systems design, customer insight, and cross-functional leadership to solve complex customer and business problems.

Whileremaininghands-on, your impact extendsto elevating the work of others -youimproveways of working, influence productdirection, strengthen design systems and practices, and help teams consistently deliver exceptional customer experiences.

You are expected tooperatewith a high degree of autonomy, navigate ambiguity confidently, build alignment across disciplines, and consistently elevate the quality of both products and the design organization.

THE GAME PLAN

Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Lead large, ambiguous product initiatives spanning multiple teams, customer journeys, and business priorities.
• Connect design decisions directly to measurable customer and business outcomes.
• BuildtrustedpartnershipswithProduct, Engineering,Insights, and leadershiptoinformproductdirectionand strategic decisions.
• Balance customer needs, business priorities, technical constraints, compliance, and delivery considerations.
• Guideproduct decisions throughevidence-baseddesign,leveragingresearch, analytics,andexperimentationinsight.
• Raise the quality bar across interaction design, visual design, accessibility, systems thinking, and executionof every projectyouinfluence,not just the onesyoudesign.
• Drive consistency across experiences while knowing when innovation isappropriate.
• Champion accessible, inclusive, and user-centred design practices.
• Establish and continuously improve AI-assisted design workflows that increase quality, speed, and consistency across the design process.
• Ensure AI-assistedworkremainsgrounded in customer insight, accessibility, design-system guidance, business context, engineering realities,and responsible human judgment.
• Coach and mentor designers through feedback, pairing, design critiques, and responsible AI practices, helping raise both individual capability and overall team quality.

THE STATS

What we’re looking for in our next teammate

• Extensiveexperienceshaping anddesigning complex digitalexperiencesin cross-functional environments.
• Strong portfoliodemonstratingexceptional craft, product thinking, systems thinking,measurable customer impact, and design leadership.
• Deepexpertisein user-centered design methodologies, information architecture,interaction design,visual design,accessibility, prototyping, designsystems, and product strategy.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional initiatives without formal authority.
• Experience using qualitative research, quantitative data,andexperimentationinsight to shape product strategyand evaluate outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to coach designers, raise design quality, and influence design practice beyond individual project work.
• Strong judgment inapplying AI-assisted workflows and validating outputs across discovery, ideation, research synthesis, prototyping, documentation, and design execution.
• Working familiarity with front-end development concepts(particularly React Native, JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based UI, layout systems, and native mobile constraints)isbeneficial but notrequired, and cansupport stronger engineering collaboration, realistic prototyping, and implementation quality.

What You Can Expect

• Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
• A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created
• Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.
• Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.
• Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work
• Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world’s largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please email [e-mail].

The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you!