Staff Product Designer

Fanatics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401K

Paid time off

GymPass

Pet Insurance

Home office setup budget

Job summary

A leading sports technology company is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead high-impact initiatives and craft exceptional fan experiences. As part of the Fanatics Betting & Gaming team, you will drive product vision and collaborate with various disciplines. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in product design, strong storytelling skills, and proficiency in tools like Figma. This position offers a competitive salary along with benefits such as medical, dental, and a home office setup budget.

Qualifications

• 6 years of experience in product, UX, or interaction design.
• 3 years leading large-scale initiatives and mentoring designers.
• A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality digital products.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead major product initiatives, crafting memorable fan experiences.
• Set product experience vision and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Drive discovery and delivery in an agile environment.

Skills

Product design

User-centered design

Collaboration

Storytelling

Accessibility standards

Tools

Figma

Prototyping tools

Job description

This isn’t just another product design role.

At Fanatics Betting & Gaming, you’ll join a small, sharp, startup‑minded team backed by one of the most powerful brands in global sports. We move fast, think big, and build products millions of fans genuinely care about. If you’re excited by ownership, collaboration, and shaping what’s next, not just refining what already exists, you’ll feel right at home.

We’re building entirely new ways for fans to engage with sports, culture, and markets. We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to lead at the intersection of vision, craft, and impact on the Fanatics Markets team. Prediction markets are one of the most exciting spaces in tech today, sitting at the crossroads of sports, fintech, and trading.

The Team

You’ll be part of a deeply collaborative product trio of Product Management, Design, and Engineering, working side by side to pioneer new fan experiences. We operate like a startup: tight‑knit, high‑trust, and outcome‑driven, while being powered by Fanatics’ global scale, reach, and resources. It’s the best of both worlds.

What You’ll Do

As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll lead high‑impact initiatives from concept through execution. You’ll shape strategy, define experiences, and raise the bar for quality across the organization.

You Will

• Own and lead major product initiatives, crafting memorable, high‑quality fan experiences with significant scope and influence.
• Set product experience vision, working with peers to identify opportunities, define outcomes, generate solution ideas, and test assumptions to drive confident decision‑making.
• Collaborate deeply across disciplines, partnering with product managers, engineers, researchers, marketers, and UX peers throughout discovery, design, and delivery.
• Bridge the Fanatics ecosystem, working with partner teams to bring elements of Fanatics’ broader digital properties—commerce, ticketing, experiences, and future verticals—into Betting & Gaming products.
• Translate strategy into reality, visualizing concepts and storytelling them clearly and compellingly for stakeholders at every level.
• Lead by example, raising the bar for craft, clarity, and collaboration while mentoring designers in your feature area.
• Drive discovery and delivery in an agile environment, helping teams define user needs, flows, and interactions—and shipping thoughtfully crafted solutions.
• Facilitate creative collaboration, leading workshops, design sprints, and working sessions that unlock new ideas and align teams.
• Design with rigor and intention, producing clear user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI grounded in research and data.
• Partner with UX Research, planning and running qualitative and quantitative studies to inform and validate design decisions.
• Iterate quickly and thoughtfully, incorporating feedback from research, data, and stakeholders.
• Advocate for accessibility, ensuring inclusive, usable experiences that meet WCAG guidelines and pushing for continuous improvement.
• Think through edge cases and complexity, helping engineering teams build robust, scalable solutions.
• Document and scale design patterns, contributing to UX guidelines, best practices, and shared systems.
• Measure impact, using user feedback and insights to drive ongoing iteration and improvement.
• Contribute to design culture, participating in studio hours, crits, and supporting the broader experience design community.

What You Bring

You’re a strategic thinker, strong collaborator, and hands‑on designer who thrives in ambiguity and loves turning complexity into clarity.

You Have

• 6 years of experience in product, UX, or interaction design.
• 3 years leading large‑scale initiatives and mentoring designers.
• A portfolio that demonstrates high‑quality digital products, strong craft, and real‑world impact.
• Deep expertise across the end‑to‑end product design process, from strategy and discovery through execution and iteration.
• Strong storytelling and communication skills, able to clearly articulate the “why” behind your decisions.
• A proven ability to balance user needs and business outcomes.
• Experience driving user‑centered design with cross‑functional teams.
• Solid knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and a passion for inclusive design.
• An understanding of front‑end technology and engineering constraints, and how to design effectively within them.
• Curiosity and a desire to stay current with evolving tools, patterns, and techniques.
• A coaching mindset. You enjoy teaching, mentoring, and helping others grow.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and bringing structure to complex problems.
• Proficiency in Figma and modern design and prototyping tools.

About Fanatics

Fanatics is building the world’s leading digital sports platform—where fans can Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through Fanatics Commerce, Collectibles, and Betting & Gaming, we serve hundreds of sports partners and over 100 million fans worldwide. Our reach spans licensed fan gear, trading cards, memorabilia, digital assets, and a rapidly growing sportsbook and iGaming platform. With 22,000+ employees globally, we’re relentlessly focused on creating unforgettable fan experiences

About Fanatics Betting & Gaming

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting & Gaming is the online and retail sports betting arm of Fanatics. The Fanatics Sportsbook reaches 95% of the U.S. addressable market, with retail locations across the country including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium. Fanatics Casino is live in multiple states, and we’re just getting started. Headquartered in New York, with offices in Denver, Leeds, and Dublin, we’re building something big and we’re doing it fast.

The base salary range for this role is $180,000 per year - $200,000 per year, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award.

In addition to the base, bonus, and equity, full‑time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, Free Shipt deliveries, and more. We’ll also give you $500 to set up your home office!

For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering 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 approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Fanatics has 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About The Team

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty‑two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds, and Dublin.