Senior Product Designer — AI-Driven Sports Platform

Fastbreak AI; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) employer contributions

Opportunity to shape the future

Job summary

Fastbreak AI is seeking a Senior Product Designer to own the design of complex web-based SaaS workflows used by tournament operators, event directors, and participants. You’ll drive end-to-end design from discovery to delivery and help set the design quality bar across the platform.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering to shape roadmaps, run user research, and evolve a scalable design system, using AI-assisted tools like Cursor to prototype with front-end code; mentorship and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product design with end-to-end ownership of complex SaaS web apps.
• Expert in Figma, with hands-on experience using AI-assisted tools like Cursor.
• Proven ability to lead qualitative and quantitative research and turn findings into decisions.
• Experience building or scaling a design system.
• Strong communicator who can present design decisions to executives, engineers and customers.
• Thrives with ownership and minimal process in a fast-growing startup.

Responsibilities

• Lead the full design process across major areas of the platform, from discovery and problem framing through delivery and iteration.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap, prioritize the right problems, and balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Plan and run research with tournament operators, event directors, and participants, combining qualitative insight with product analytics to guide decisions and measure impact.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and polished high-fidelity designs that make data-heavy, multi-step operational workflows feel intuitive.
• Establish navigation and interaction patterns that scale across the platform and hold up for power users managing large events under pressure.
• Plan and run usability studies, then turn the findings into clear design improvements.
• Lead the evolution of a scalable design system that keeps web and future mobile experiences consistent.
• Use AI-assisted tools like Cursor to prototype and refine front-end code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), working closely with engineering so what ships matches the design intent.
• Mentor other designers, lead critiques, and champion craft and user-centered thinking across the company.

Skills

Product design

Figma

Cursor

User research

Tools

Figma

Cursor

Job description

Fastbreak AI is seeking a Senior Product Designer to own the design of complex web-based SaaS workflows used by tournament operators, event directors, and participants. You’ll drive end-to-end design from discovery to delivery and help set the design quality bar across the platform.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering to shape roadmaps, run user research, and evolve a scalable design system, using AI-assisted tools like Cursor to prototype with front-end code; mentorship and