Staff Product Designer

About Fanatics Live & Collect

Fanatics Live & Collect is a technology company dedicated to revolutionizing the world of collectibles. Every single day our team of experienced product leaders, creative thinkers, and operators obsesses over how to create the ultimate collector experience with our two core products - Collect, the most trusted and dynamic collector focused marketplace, and Live, the most fun and entertaining live shopping experience in collecting.

We have the unique advantage of being backed by Fanatics - the world's largest sports merchandiser, with more than 900 global sports relationships, 90+ million reachable fans, and exclusive licensing deals with the MLB, NFL, and NBA among many others - but we're a small, nimble, ambitious team building products from the ground up.

The Team

Our people are at the top of their game... or on their way to get there. They're smart and kind and skilled in an extraordinary range of technologies, approaches, thinking and communicating. We believe in context, not control and and trust the team to do the best work possible to achieve our objectives.

We are distributed across multiple countries and timezones and value communication, clarity and candor. We are comfortable with uncertainty and change, happy to get to grips with new business sectors, innovative business models and novel product concepts. We get our hands dirty, are brave in their decision making and own the work we do.

Responsibilities and duties: “What you will do in the role day to day”

As a Staff Product Designer, you will combine helping launch some of their most important products for our business, along with helping us to further develop our awesome team of designers and our design quality.

As a key member of the design strategic leadership team, you'll be responsible for designing products that combine both utility and beauty across platforms. Work closely with our products and engineering teams to solve real business problems, deliver measurable value to both Fanatics and our awesome base of collectors and sellers.

You'll also help grow our culture, coach and inspire the new Fanatics design team, supporting our engineering and product teams while elevating the strategic role of design within the organization.

As a product design lead your role will be spread across design leadership & individual contribution.

Design Leadership

• Lead new discovery & design initiatives for Fanatics Collect across Mobile & Web
• Collaborate with Fanatics Collect product management to set the product strategy and inform the product roadmap for Fanatics Collect
• Support on the hiring of new members of the design team
• Provide leadership and coaching for other designers within the Fanatics Live team supporting them on their career progression

Individual Contributor

• Work in small, multi-disciplinary teams to create elegant product experience, craft intuitive, human-centric flows and experiences on Web, iOS, and Android.
• Develop high-fidelity prototypes and visuals, delivering pixel-perfect mockups and design specs.
• Manage design projects through the entire product lifecycle, overseeing multiple launches simultaneously.
• Contribute significantly to design system development, including component design and style libraries.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering, and leadership to design and launch features, as well as iterate on existing ones.
• Exhibit meticulous attention to detail in engineering implementation, and the ability to integrate into QA processes to ensure high quality execution
• Participate in regular design critiques and brainstorming sessions.
• Partner closely with Product Managers to develop and refine product requirements, create solutions, and secure stakeholder buy-in.

We'd love to hear from you if…

We're looking for people who can go beyond just delivering UI work, and who can demonstrate product thinking, a growth mindset and initiative. We are in the game of delivering excellence and innovation to our customers.

You'll need to show us that

• You've got significant experience doing user research & designing products and services, working as part of a team with other designers and engineers
• You have an outstanding portfolio that shows a broad range of design work from responsive web based applications, consumer experiences, and mobile devices
• You can advocate and explain your work in an understandable way without jargon
• You know how to respond to feedback on your work and on your approach
• You can take your colleagues and your clients/stakeholders on a journey with you, so they buy into your approach and your design decisions
• You care about the integrity of your work, but can still balance user, business & technical needs and take calculated risks to get things done
• You have mastery of Figma
• You have knowledge of design systems fundamentals, and experience maintaining, contributing, or building them
• You have experience conducting customer research and usability tests and then turning these insights into beautifully designed products
• You have ability to work both autonomously as well as within a team while managing and contributing to multiple projects concurrently
• You can work autonomously, but know when to ask for help
• You care about your work, and are constantly looking for ways to improve the product

If you're worried that you don't 100% tick all of these boxes, please speak to us anyway. We know the “perfect candidate” doesn't exist and we love it when people bring their own perspectives and passions to Fanatics Live.

We'll encourage you to develop in areas you're passionate about, and we will support you in exploring areas you'd like to grow in.

Fanatics Collectibles is a leading licensor, producer, designer, and seller of physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets for entertainment and sports properties globally, as well as a manufacturer of physical and digital trading cards. It has secured exclusive licensing arrangements with major national professional sports leagues, including the MLB, NFL and the NBA, and related players associations, to produce physical and digital trading cards and other collectibles.

Fanatics Collectibles also has partnerships with a number of individual international sports teams and leagues, as well as owners of other entertainment properties granting similar exclusive rights. Fanatics Collectibles recently announced Fanatics Live, expected to launch later in 2023, which will focus on transforming the digital shopping experience through personality-driven content and entertainment.